North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

Mark
 You can also graft other varities and a male to that same tree and you 
would have had fruit.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.





----Original Message Follows----
From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] persimmon propagation from roots
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:52:33 -0700

I have a Diospyros lotus tree, date plum, a relative of persimmons that are
native to the US.  I accidently found that this tree is easily propagated
from root cuttings.

One year ago at the absolute worst time to transplant trees, I had to move
this tree due to construction that was about to take place.  We were having
a hot July and I was afraid this tree wouldn't survive the move.  I went out
one evening and ripped the tree out of the ground with a pick and shovel.  I
had to work fast because the bull dozer was coming the next morning to level
everything remaining.  This past week I noticed a few D. lotus branches
poking out of the piles of dirt left from the construction.  I dug them up
and found them attached to 1/2" thick 6 " long sections of the tree I dug up
a year ago.  I now have a small nursery bed of these trees.  What a tough
tree.  The tree I moved last year is also doing well.  In the 15 years I
have had this tree, I have never had fruit even though it blooms.  I need
both a male and female, which I obsiously don't have with a single tree.
Now I have a collection of rootstock I can experiment with (i.e. grafting)
and maybe someday get a male/female pair growing in my garden.  I know this
fruit can produce in Seattle because the local arboretum has a productive
tree that I sampled last fall.
-Mark Lee, Seattle, zone 7B/8A

_______________________________________________
nafex mailing list
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Most questions can be answered here:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
File attachments are accepted by this list; please do not send binary files, 
plain text ONLY!
Message archives are here:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex
To view your user options go to:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/nafex/XXXX@XXXX (where XXXX@XXXX is
YOUR email address)
NAFEX web site:   http://www.nafex.org/

_________________________________________________________________
MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*.  
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus