mixing peterson pawpaws with wild?
To my delight, I have recently discovered a stand of wild pawpaws a couple miles from my home, but of course I've never tasted their fruit and don't know if they are good or anything else about them. Meanwhile, I've ordered 2 Peterson Pawpaw varieties on-line which are expected to arrive in 2 weeks.
I'm very, very tempted to move some of the wild trees to my property (lets assume I am able to do that for now). If I do, they would have to be very close to my petersons. My question is this....will I potentially negate the higher quality Peterson fruit by cross pollinating them with my wild trees (assuming the wild fruit is average, and therefore probably less good than Peterson fruit)? Or will the Peterson trees automatically bear pretty much the same, good quality Peterson fruit no matter what pollinates them? I hope my question is clear.....basically, if you had 2 expensive Peterson pawpaw trees and had a chance to get a 3rd, unknown wild pawpaw tree to put with them, would you do that? Why or why not? Thanks.