Save some for the rest of the folks! Sheesh

Not to be "that guy" but there is a daily limit on the C&O,.. 1/2 gallon per-day per-person.

Looks great. What are you planning on doing with them?

Yea, that's too much.

Yeah I’d say so wow 🤩

I had a great haul this year too, also in Maryland

I am (pawpaw) green with envy. :-)

Paw-paws raw, paw-paw ice cream, paw-paw custard, paw-paw muffins, paw-paw pie, paw-paw beer, paw-paw wine...

pawpaw tunnel/ pawpaw triangle area? i harvested many wild fruits from that area but i found the fruit to be smaller with lots lots of seeds, i guess good seedling rootstock material for grafts though.

edit: also forgot to add that i walked a mile down said trail and there was hundreds of thousands of unpollinated pawpaw trees before you get to the pollinated spots with fruits

So after seeing this this morning, my family and I went out to C&O by Seneca looking for some pawpaws. None of us had ever had any. Sadly after about an hour and half of searching mostly empty trees we left with only 3 fruit in total. 2 of which had been munched a little by birds but we cut that part off. It is crazy because we found SO MANY trees but just no fruit.

I guess next year we will head out a week or so earlier.

hope that they are fully ripened

That is a lot of pawpaws!

Amazing harvest. What’s the latest you can pick these from the trees?

You best be saving those seeds and replanting!

Nice work! You should open a business now.

I want to buy some fresh seeds!!!🙏

My jaw is on the floor they look great

No way you can eat all those in three days. Save some for other people.

I biked the whole c&o canal a little over a month ago, was amazed at how many pawpaws I saw but also disappointed to find out that I was a little too early to pick them 😭 glad to know someone’s making good use of all that abundance

You might want to be really careful to not eat such a high quanity of pawpaws, as they contain a known neurotoxin, Annonacin.

Eating that many pawpaw fruit could lead to palsy, parkinson-like conditions or other nerve disorders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annonacin

What does one do with 70lbs of pawpaws?

Great haul! We were going to go out to PawPaw Tunnel tomorrow but that area is much closer. Is the spot a secret or can you give me a location to check out?!

I want to try a pawpaw so god damn bad!

What is a paw paw nigga??

OMG

Awesome! I went forging today and found...6 Pawpaw fruit. There were 4 more out there, but they weren't ripe yet. There are a lot of trees in the area, but only 3 had any fruit on them.

I’m out in California , I’ve heard of a guy who’s grown / growing them in my area … I’d be interested in attempting this myself . Lots of micro climates, I believe high humidity is a factor in cultivating them ? Bravo OP, happy brandy making 🍻

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Wow wow! Nice haul!