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Whoa, nice! I hope to find one in the wild someday.
What state are you in? If you don't mind me asking
South Carolina. I missed the fruiting season for paw paws this year but I'll be back next year
Keep in mind that there will often be no fruit. Pawpaws spread in monoclonal colonies, and a colony can't pollinate itself. I live surrounded by many pawpaw groves, but only a few actually make fruit. Supposedly you can spray the trees down with fish emulsion to attract the flies that pollinate them, but that still only helps if you have 2 non-clones next to each other