Locate and Identify Ripe Fallen Fruit

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The host explains that ripe pawpaws will naturally fall from the tree. He advises checking the ground, particularly near creek banks, for fallen fruits. It's crucial to collect them quickly, as opossums, raccoons, and other wildlife will eagerly eat them. He demonstrates picking up two pawpaws, showing that the skin can turn black shortly after falling, which is a sign of optimal ripeness. He warns against picking green pawpaws from the tree as they won't ripen properly.

Goal: Learn how to find ripe pawpaws on the ground and distinguish between ripe and unripe fallen fruits.

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really cool let me show you before we crack into this dude how to get a pawpaw they're either on the ground and they're on only on the ground for just a short period of time if you don't catch them the day they fall and hit the ground a possum a raccoon all the critters of the forest will be over here eating them so let's go over in the woods and we'll show you what a pawpaw tree looks like and how to get the pawpaws off the tree and how not to get green pawpaws come on this is a weeny baby pawpaw tree these trees are everywhere Bam Bam Bam once you find the pawpaw Grove on your hiking trail and these are native to the Eastern United States so if you live out west in a dry climate you're probably not going to find a paa these are the leaves of the pawpaw tree we're just going to sacrifice this little guy looks like a little tropical leaf this is fall so the leaves are starting to turn just a little bit and you'll notice that on several of these there's also an invasive worm that has inundated my pawpaws that's what that is it's a little worm basket I guess you'd call that this is what the pawpaw looks like now we've got some adult pawpaw trees right over here which are flagged this is an adult pawpaw tree the pawpaw tree typically for some reason some of them never put out fruit but they typically don't put out fruit until they're about this big okay about as big as your arm or big as your leg maybe about four Ines around about the size of this guy and the way you find your paw paws and let me just show you real quick they're growing on the creek Banks right here there are pawpaw trees that's one that's fallen down recently this is what you want to look for you look up in the canopy of the tree and you will see this fruit hanging in that canopy you'll also scan the ground and what will we find more paw paaws on the ground now they turn black really quick after they fall now that's the good pawpaw right there that's the yummiest of all so we're going to eat that dude here in just a minute let me show you real quick how we get the pawpaws out of the tree and what to do so you don't get a green one and

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