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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Sept 7, 2016 18:58:45 GMT -5
NAHAN AND i PICKED THE FIRST 15 LB. THIS EVENING. NICE AND JUST BARELY SOFT. SOME CRITTERS GOT Afew and most still hard and green yet. should be several hundred lb. this year. we ate one and the rest are going to market. first order is 25 lb so we`ll have that tomorrow.
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Post by doyleflory on Sept 7, 2016 20:05:06 GMT -5
seems to be a little early for about every thing this year. Cooper hit face book with his Indian corn and had to stop because it was selling faster than we can grow it.
I think he is going to have a good year and we will need to expand again next year.
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Post by DaveM on Sept 8, 2016 4:06:17 GMT -5
The pawpaws seem slim here. Especially compared to last year. Maybe they dont like rain every day.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Sept 8, 2016 4:57:35 GMT -5
we will have enough paw paws to fill what demand we have, but ours seem fewer too, and definitely smaller than last year. I think this year is normal and last year was the bumper year. nathan sold his first 3 jars of honey for the year the last couple days so it`s all good. he has near 100lb. this year. our hazel nuts are all gone now as they got shaded out by bigger oaks. poor planning on my part to inter plant them with trees. glad to hear cooper is doing well on the indian corn.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Sept 9, 2016 10:16:08 GMT -5
sold 20 lb. yesterday and 42 lb. this morning. $5 a lb., all to the same guy. he`ll probably be back every day now till they run out.
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Post by doyleflory on Sept 9, 2016 15:59:45 GMT -5
That's better than coon:)
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Sept 9, 2016 16:34:28 GMT -5
on the way out to the mail box just now picked one up that fell today about the size of a hen egg. fitty cent, yep, better than a coon!
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Post by doyleflory on Sept 9, 2016 17:49:38 GMT -5
you don't even have to skin them.lolYou may need to trap them hard to save the paw paws.We will be coon trappers one way or the other.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Sept 9, 2016 20:18:45 GMT -5
something is eating about 5 lb a night. squirrels, deer , possum, coons, coyotes. bunch of dang democrat free loaders. worst part is they knock them down, smash some, eat 1/2 of the others. keeps me in seed for planting however.
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Post by doyleflory on Sept 10, 2016 6:57:42 GMT -5
Same with my peach tree they eat half and it still hanging on the tree.
We got 2.34" rain last night here at the house the farm got 3.21"
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Sept 12, 2016 12:59:47 GMT -5
my guy just picked up 50 more lb.. up to 112 lb at $5 a lb. so far. at least that much more to go, or more. $560 total to date. like catching 560 coons I`m going to have another 1,000 plus coon year!
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Oct 5, 2016 6:19:18 GMT -5
we finished out selling 321 lbs at $5 a lb. and have a sale for whatever is left, maybe 20 lb. more. it`s been as great year and a new record , lbs. and $ for us. as many seeds as we have been planting, and the trees getting bigger each year it should just keep getting better. we at the end hooked up with an ice cream maker said he`d take all we can get from now on. blue skys! I can dsee it now, in 20 years nathan running the biggest oaw paw plantation in north america. well either that or a heck of a rotton paw paw throwing fight every september.
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Post by DaveM on Oct 5, 2016 7:49:46 GMT -5
Sounds like you did great! Last year was the best yield I ever remember and this year was just so so here. You finding any hens yet? None here, and we have plenty of moisture.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Oct 5, 2016 8:34:39 GMT -5
sad story. right about last week end I saw one maybe 1/2 fist size just starting. it had a little limb on it and I pick the limb off and part of it was under that babvy hen and broke it off. next to it was one I could see would be small and it`s about grown now but still only 2-3 lb. at the most. my best tree I look at every day and so far nothing. we choked the paw paw guy up on chickens and I asked him about his hen market this year and he said he`d ask around. that was 3 days ago and so far he hasn`t got back. last year or two mushrooms and bees all the yuppy/organic/greenies have got into big time and I think they have flooded the mushroom market. they tried on the paw paw market but the wild un-managed paw paws don`t produce enough to choke it up. the wild collectors can get 2-4-8 lb at the most and I can come up with 50-80 lb. at a time so I`ve got that one sewed up. the mushrooms it`s another story. dave , paw paw are real poor pollinators so you have to hand pollinate the flowers if you want big production, but it works great. just use a toothpick and real gentle rub in each flower and then to the next and so on
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Oct 5, 2016 19:15:19 GMT -5
this afternoon looked at my best hen tree again. it wasn`t there yesterday and today is one about like a 1/2 a flat golf ball, still smooth, that fresh. it usually has 3-5 on it so anxious to look again tomorrow. the hen buyer called and wants the little one plus more paw paws. good day!
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