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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Persimmons
  • Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:26:10 -0500

Gordon mentioned a couple of my persimmon 'discoveries' that he's trialing
there in Flint.
Let me give a little more info on these two, and if anyone on the list is
interested in trying them, I can supply scions next spring.

"Shepard Rd." - roadside tree, good straight timber-type growth. Fruits
were ripe and dropping here in southern west-central KY on 1 Sept last
year(2000), about two weeks later this year(2001)

"SFES" - another roadside tree, in the fencerow across from my kids'
elementary school. At this time, I'm presuming it to be a 'bisexual' male
or polygamodioiecious tree(I've not managed to stop by & examine flowers
during its bloom period). It produces mostly small(1") seedless fruits,
but maybe 10% will be normal size(1.5"), but never contain more than one
developed seed. I pulped out a couple of gallons of fruit from this one
last year, and only ended up with about 30 seeds - I'd usually get that
many out of a half-dozen typical persimmon fruits.

Also have access to another tree, here in town that I call "816", it bears
heavy crops every year, usually ripe around 20 Sept, but it's just
beginning to drop ripe fruits now, so it's running a little behind
normal. Big, tasty, yellow-fleshed fruits, usually all ripe and gone
before freezing weather set in. Limbs are bent to the ground this year,
it's cropping so heavily.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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