Good to hear. I have heard these are slow to leaf out. Despite the length of the winter, I had no losses I think, because of the deep snow. Even stuff I planted as annuals that are supposed to be zone 6 survived.

I didn't realize there was one that grew here. Yet another item for my list.

Yeah, that 80" of the white stuff was finally good for something after all :-) Just in case, I'm still going to set up straw bales every winter for the next few years to baby it along until it's more established (I've heard that more established plants can become hardier over time).

That's good to know ... I planted two this year (One pennsylvania golden and one seedling no name variety) - I'm hoping Minneapolis has a heat island effect enough to sustain them, but just in case I'll protect them this winter too.

People with pawpaw trees growing in zone 4 should keep in touch, because, once the trees get to the point where they are flowering and can bear fruit, it's hard to find a pollinator (and pawpaws are not self fruitful). The normal procedure for pawpaw growers is to mail each other flowers in the spring once they've reached the male stage (when pollen starts to form in the flowers). We should send around flowers from hardy plants. My largest pawpaw is ten feet tall and fruits, but only because I drove a flower up from southern Missouri last spring and hand pollinated it from the flower (after leaving the flower in the fridge for two weeks or so, because of our much later spring).