Good you bring up the slug question. I’ve found the slugs like to eat Pawpaw too. As far as I know, this is a general tendency with plants from North America, that didn’t have a slug population and hence didn’t evolve defenses against that kind of grazing. Another reason for me to grow in containers for the first 2 years.
If I had thousands of seeds, I might want to try a direct sown mass selection and that would probably kill almost all of them either by slug grazing or in the winter (since wood normally doesn’t harden enough). Those last remaining seed could have some potential. Someone else might want to try that more hardcore strategy.
Do you know the source of the seed from Semences du puy - which kind of trees?
Semences du puys don’t give much info about seed origin. (Nos graines d’Asimina triloba n’ont pas de variété spécifique, elles proviennent de l’espèce type.) they say their seeds are not identified as any specific variety.
I bought seeds on Breizhpawpaw on ebay and also brought some seeds from an orchard last year.
Effectively as zanthoxylum are slug magnets when sowing. You must make them indoors if not too much loss. In addition, young plants require a lot of heat, during the first 2 years we are close to the need for tropical plants…then mysteriously after the plants require less heat for growth.
next year I’m planning some grafting with all the plants I have.
I already have Allegheny x Susquehana, and Overleese
Do you have some cultivars too?