[NAFEX] persimmon seed sprouting
lee reich
lreich at hvc.rr.com
Wed Nov 16 09:45:50 EST 2005
I've never had much difficulty germinating persimmon seeds. I soak
the seed for a few hours after extracting it from the fruit, wash it,
then put it in a plastic bag in the refrigerator along with some
moist potting soil. I take the bag out of the refrigerator after
about three months, keep it in a warm room, and wait for roots to
appear. Once they appear, I pot up individual seeds into deep
containers.
Now, grafting persimmons...that's where I have not been as
successful. I get only about 50 percent take with whip and tongue
grafts made when rootstocks start sprouting leaves. Many persimmon
stems are deciduous, so one theory that I have is that many of the
grafts that don't take were made with stems that would have been
deciduous, so don't live.
Lee Reich, PhD
www.leereich.com
Books by Lee Reich:
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
A Northeast Gardener's Year
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening
On Nov 15, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Jerrydana5 at aol.com wrote:
> Has anybody had any success at sprouting persimmon seeds? I've
> tried several times and always failed. Any advice would be
> helpful--I obviously don't know what I'm doing. Jerry in southern
> Indiana
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