Had one of these in my yard for the first time this year. A rather charming plant.

Very interesting good share

Incredible. Thanks for the share.

Try the fridge, perforated bag with moist soil around the seeds. Maybe a hard plastic cup that is open on the top.

They need to be cold stratified, and they can’t get dried out. I definitely could not write a better guide than some of the available stuff online. But use lots of seeds and bear those two things in mind. Best of luck!

It is. Get you a second tree from a different place. Genetic diversity increases chances. Takes years.

Yes, assisted orgy.

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It’s this, I think. To be honest with you, I found it on the side of the road.

Good call, Ty. Didn’t think of that.

I appreciate the sentiment, but that’s not for me. It might hurt some underpaid worker and won’t change the outcome. My organization has been allowed to work this site, better to not risk it and continue getting access to sites.

Yep probably another big housing development. And this is a particularly rich forest for the area.

Hell yeah, high quality comment 👀

Keep trying. Hopefully at some point it will stick. The breeding and grafting of these has gained traction. So someone really might develop a resistant version at some point. It’s a fun hobby to mess with them that I think is inherently rewarding for its own activity, rather than necessarily requiring any perfect outcomes. So, document or share your experiences. Someone else can learn from what you learn. And we can all work together to help keep this wonderful tree common throughout North America.

In my humble and largely meaningless opinion, they are one of the most enchanting plants in North America.

Part of the rub with them is that they need, or rather prefer, some genetic diversity to get fruit. It’s a colonial organism, so if you see a whole big patch of them, good chance it’s all the exact same one or a couple closely related ones that have spread out like the aspen trees in Colorado.

You can go buy a couple ones locally or have them mailed to you and significantly improve your chances of getting fruit. You can also hand pollinate those little red flowers with a paintbrush.

You should. Much higher chance of getting fruit if you have some genetic diversity in your plant stock. So I’ve ordered some from a couple different people, had people send me seeds, and rescued my own.

Hopefully after I get some seeds here from some wild trees near me, I’d be happy to mail you some to stratify.

Good luck in your journey, DM me if you want to talk pawpaws.

I’ve been trying to hunt down a wild specimen to have as my first one, rather than caving and going to a specialty shop somewhere seasonally to get one. So I think I’ll be in luck this year. 🤞 I also want the seeds for my projects.

All the higher effort options posted here are very good and you should do them. But if you can’t muster it for time or care, you could probably just water them really well, wait till the next day, and then gently pull the New England Aster up and put it somewhere else. Either way, good luck, it’s going to work out regardless.

Locked in. Hell yeah friend.

I am always glad for Southern goodbyes. One of the really good Southern ways opposed to the many that leave a bad taste in my mouth.

That sounds very exciting. Bicycle infrastructure is a very big deal to me. I will not forget this maybe I will even have the forethought to post a follow-up picture in the next year or two in response to this comment right here.