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[Lon Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Persimmon cuttings (dormant ones, at least) are very hard to root.  
They graft very easily, though.

Some persimmons, especially ones related to "Early Golden" will often 
produce limbs of male flowers.  This is NOT a stable trait - graft a 
new tree from the male limb and it will go back to being female.  When 
the tree matures, it can again produce a stray limb of male flowers now 
and then.  There are also male trees that will produce small, seedless 
fruit, and a very few "males" that will produce some female and some 
PERFECT flowers.  "Szukis" is one of these.  Jim Claypool's "F-100" is 
another.  There are efforts going on to breed perfect flowered 
persimmons, using these odd types as a basis.
-Lon Rombough

On Nov 11, 2004, at 8:53 PM, David W Hausmann wrote:

'Ello [Bad fake English accent][No offense meant], All!

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        So if I take cuttings from the female tree I should be able to get 
them

to root
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        Will cuttings from persimmons root?  Also, the garden guy on PBS 
stated
that small willow twigs, about the diameter of your little finger, 
soaked
in water will produce a liquid that enhances root growth in cuttings.
Does anyone know if that works?

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and they'll stick to being female.
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Will they stay female?  One article I read said that persimmon trees can
have mainly female flowers but one or two branches of male flowers on 
the
same tree.  True?  Also, can persimmons be grafted so that you have both
on one tree?