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Lon:
    Prof. Meader told me that Meader Persimmon was parthenocarpic, also, so 
seedless fruit were not a fluke of your climate (or not JUST your climate.)  
Given substantial diferences in climatic factors, it may be some other 
variable, no?

Dan H.
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In a message dated 12/29/00 7:30:33 PM, lonrom@hevanet.com writes:

<< I'd wager you bought your "Meader" from a nursery in Oregon or Washington. 
In the NW climate Meader will set seedless fruit and mature them, but it's a
fluke of our climate.  In most places, you have to have a male to pollinate
it.  HOWEVER, "Meader" is a seedling of Garretson, one of the "Early Golden"
family, and as such, carries genes that allow it to occasionaly develop
limbs of male flowers.  If that happens, you will get seeded fruit as long
as you don't prune the male limb off.  There are also a few perfect flowered
persimmons.  On is Szukis (pronounced "shoe kiss") and another is one from
breeder Jim Claypool, his F-100.  I have both and have found the F-100 to be
the most reliable.  It is technically male, but it sets both small seedless
fruit and larger seeded fruit.  That is, it has both male flowers and some
perfect flowers on the same tree.  Graft some on your "Meader" and you will
get fruit on all the tree.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, unusual fruits, writing, consulting, more, at
http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom >>


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