Bailey from TN Nursery, the world's largest pawpaw grower, walks through their operation. They grow seedlings from seed with uneven germination, maintain a 2,700-pound collection, and have four-year-old trees expected to fruit in four to five years. Zebra swallowtail butterflies are frequent visitors.
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Hey everyone, it's Bailey with TN Nursery, and this is what it looks like to be the world's largest grower of the pawpaw tree. And you look at these big old beds, they're rim and full, and all these pawpaw trees about 3 to 4 foot tall. They're our biggest size we have. These was all grown here from seed. That bed, that's a bed of milkweed in the middle of there. And then here over here is more. Look, they're kind— they're just now breaking ground. They're— pawpaws is really itchy and really hard to grow. So you'll see half these beds ain't got none and half of them does. That's just the way they are. They take their time when it comes to sprouting. Say, some beds do real good and some beds don't. Now this was 2,700 pounds of pawpaw trees. Look at all these, it just keeps on going. And then I'll take you over here and show you our big ones in just a minute. We got really, really big ones over there. We're gonna raise them for our seeds. And here's our larger patch of pawpaws. You can see these are 10-foot tall at least. These are about 4 years old, and they'll start fruiting at 4 to 5 years old if they like the ground they're in. If you take care of the ground, they will fruit early, and they should be fruiting next year. And there's a lot of zebra swallowtail butterflies in and out of these all the time because they're raising in them. Just look at that, they are absolutely beautiful. These are our native pawpaw trees. This is going to be our big seed grow. There's— we're going to let these all grow up and we're going to get seed off of them and they'll be fruiting next year. Shop now at tnursery.net. We got buy one get one free on our beautiful pawpaws.
