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[Lon Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Elwyn sent me three root cuttings of "Meader" persimmon one time.  The 
idea being that persimmons are fairly prone to sucker, so we figured 
that root pieces would sprout shoots fairly easily.  Three isn't 
exactly a good sample, though I wasn't able to get any to sprout.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at 
http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association 
"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Nov 12, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Heron Breen wrote:

In one of Elwyn Meader's exchanges with another nursery which he sent 
plants to,
root cuttings were the method the nursery was intending to use, maybe by
layering? These are root cuttings, not rooted greenwoods I am speaking 
of.
Root-grafting, since it seems grafting is acceptable to persimmons, 
might be a
way to get own-root behavior? Or are their roots so tender to handling 
this would
be discouraged?