Kitty Hawk Pawpaw Description

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Kitty Hawk pawpaw is a late season pawpaw with very strong flavoured sweet, large fruits with a darker flesh. One of the high quality pawpaws if you are looking for strong flavours. Needs another pawpaw as a pollinator. We would only plant this pawpaw in a hot/warm sheltered area. This is a difficult pawpaw to ripen in the UK but one for the collectors who are looking to expand their orchard with a riskier but high quality addition.

 

A fantastic choice if you already have pawpaws and are looking for one that may not ripen every year but is of high quality.

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Pollination: A seedling pawpaw or any other grafted cultivar or seedling pawpaw tree will pollinate it. For good pollination, plant trees 8-15 ft away from each other only. Pawpaws are not male and female, but rather have “male and female” flower parts on each flower. Every tree is capable of bearing fruit if pollinated well with pollen from another genetically different pawpaw tree. Hand pollination results in heaviest fruit set.

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Resistant to: Pawpaws are generally remarkably disease and insect resistant. See our pawpaw growing article for full information.

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Ripening: Very Late Season 

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Site requirements: Full sun location for best fruit production. Pawpaws will grow in shade but produce much less fruit. Pawpaws tolerate a range of soil types provided the planting location is well drained and there is heavy mulch and plenty of fertilizer and water. Protected locations, such as on the South, East or West side of a building is ideal on very windy sites.

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Size at maturity: 15-20′ tall and wide, depending on location, care and pruning to reduce height. We recommend heading them at about 10″ and removing suckers, both of which keep the trees very manageable and small.

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Pawpaw trees we grow are: Kitty Hawk, Freestone Pawpaws line Honeydew, Marshmallow and Cantaloupe, Overleese, Davis, PA Golden, Billy the Kid, Chappell, NC1, Capsian, Halvin, Prima, Summer Delight and Maria's Joy pawpaw trees.

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Pawpaws (Asimina Triloba) are related to custard apples and cherimoya, in the sugar apple family, and yet they grow in the temperate zone, having moved north as Ice Age glaciers receded. Flavours of mango, melon, banana, raspberry and pineapple come from this creamy fruit. Like many fruits, if you don’t know what you’re doing and you let them get bruised, or you pick them under-ripe they won't taste very good!