Pawpaw Experiments

This video documents various pawpaw experiments and results of those experiments. We currently have the following tests underway and will post the videos of the test and results on our YouTube channel as well as on our website www.GreatEscapeFarms.com. The tests underway right now are as follows:

• Softwood Cutting Test – 4 different tests on trying to root softwood cuttings.
• Pawpaw Whole Fruit Test – Experiments with germinating seeds in the fruit planted different ways.
• Long Frozen Seed Germination Test – We are freezing seeds from 1.5 days up to 60 days and testing germination. We are testing in a standard refrigerator/freezer and in a colder chest freezer.
• Short Frozen Seed Germination Test – We are freezing seeds from 15 minutes up to 24 hours and testing germination.
• Long Dry Seed Germination Test – We are drying seeds out for 1 to 30 days and then testing germination.
• Short Dry Seed Germination Test – We are drying seeds out for 1 to 24 hours and then testing germination.
• Short Stratification Germination Test – We are stratifying seeds in various increments from 15-days up to 105 days and testing germination to see where the sweet spot is for seed stratification.
• Long Stratification Germination Test – We are stratifying seeds in monthly increments from 8-months up to multiple years and testing germination to see if there is a time-based expiration of seeds in the refrigerator.
• Misc. Seed Tests – We are trying two different tests of stratifying and trying to germinate seeds with the seed sack still on. We also separated out seeds that floated when we were cleaning the seeds and will germinate them separately to see if a floating seed is a dead seed.
• Future test (Starting in Spring 2025) Hybrid Hardwood Cutting Test – We are taking hardwood cuttings in March which will transition over to a mist system and be treated like softwood cuttings in the summer and test results in the Fall.

If you have any other tests we should try, please comment on a post or video or send us an email and let us know.

Here is a link to our blog post with more details on each test. https://greatescapefarms.com/pawpaw-e...

0:00 Intro
0:33 Softwood Cutting Test
0:55 Whole Fruit Test
1:14 Frozen Seed Germination Test
2:03 Dry Seed Germination Test
2:36 Hybrid Hardwood/Softwood Propagation Test
3:04 Seed Stratification Germination Test
3:29 Long Duration Stratification Test
4:10 Hourly Dry Seed Germination Test
4:21 Any Suggestions??

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