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[Cara & Tom Patterson <tomandcara@home.com>]

My Meader persimmons was from a nursery in Oregon.  The fruit does grow to 
about 1/2" - 3/4" across before it falls off.  It is about a month after 
blooming,
if that helps regarding the pollination versus climactic factors.


On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:09:23 EST, you wrote:

>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.
>----------------
>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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