(23 Sep 2024)
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SSOCIATED PRESS
Washington Court House, Ohio – 18 September 2024
1. Tight of pawpaw growing on drought-affected tree
2. Medium of pawpaw trees, rack focus forward to yellowed tree leaves
3. Wide of pawpaw tree leaves
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Libbey, owner, Libbey Farm:
"Pawpaw growers are finding we just have to be prepared for more extreme weather events. Last year, we were hit with late spring freezes that killed off a lot of the blossoms in the springtime period. This year, we were hit by the drought. So even though we were seeing kind of a bumper crop of pawpaws, the harvest time frame was accelerated much faster than what any of us had expected.”
5. Various of pawpaw growing on a tree
6. Medium pan right of harvested pawpaws
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Libbey, owner, Libbey Farm:
"Last year, my first fruit ripened on September 15th. This year, it ripened six weeks earlier, the first weekend of August. And I was completely caught by surprise. I had walked into the orchard to do my regular irrigation and the smell of the fruit just hit me. And so, when a pawpaw is ripe, it gives off this very sweet, fruity aroma. And it felt like I was in the twilight zone because I knew that something was off.”
8. Wide of Valerie Libbey placing irrigation buckets, rack focus front to pawpaw growing on drought-affected tree
9. Various of Valerie Libbey irrigating pawpaw trees
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Frankfort, Kentucky – 20 September 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirk Pomper, professor of horticulture, Kentucky State University:
"Basically, pawpaw is well-adapted to being able to withstand kind of moist environments. It cannot be waterlogged and so that’s something that’s been a bit of a problem with, you know, some of the flooding we’ve seen with the variability in weather. And so that can be a problem as long as it’s fairly moist soil. What it doesn’t do real well against is prolonged droughts. And that might be a problem as we see variability in weather in the future.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington Court House – 18 September 2024
11. Medium of pawpaw growing on tree
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Frankfort, Kentucky (Virtual) – 20 September 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirk Pomper, professor of horticulture, Kentucky State University:
"And then even we saw this this year also they will start aborting fruit early and the fruit will appear ripe, Right, it will fall off the tree, but it won’t taste very good because it may be dropping two or three weeks early. And so these are the kind of things we see as the tree tries to survive, even though it has a fruit load on it, to adapt to that drought environment. Of course if it can’t do that, then it can die. And that would be the worst-case scenario, though.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington Court House, Ohio – 18 September 2024
13. Wide of Valerie Libbey harvesting a pawpaw UPSOUND (English) “So here we have a small fruit cluster and it’s definitely ripe.”
14. Detail of fruit being cut from tree
15. Medium of Valerie Libbey holding harvested fruit
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Libbey, owner Libbey Farm:
"This year we’ve definitely noticed that the fruit has been smaller. I’m picking up a bitter aftertaste on some of the cultivars that should have a really you know, strong flavor profile.”
17. Various of Valerie Libbey cutting open a pawpaw
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Libbey, owner Libbey Farm:
19. Detail of Valerie Libbey holding a normal pawpaw and a drought-affected pawpaw
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