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["philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>]

If your fruit was an oriental persimmon and it had no seeds it means no male 
flowers were around.
I have a dozen or so oriental persimmons and had a branch of chocolate 
persimmon that has male
flowers.  This resulted in all my persimmons having abundant seeds.  I have 
since cut off that limb.
The seeds are about the size of watermelon seeds.  You would want the 
rootstock to be D virginiana. 
Those fruit are very much smaller than any oriental persimmon.  Without male 
flowers, oriental persimmons have
no seeds.
phil

> I'm suddenly paying attention to the persimmon posts. I didn't think 
> persimmon
> grew here until a saw a tree laden with big orange fruit a couple of weeks 
> ago.
> The owner thinks it is a D virginiana, but she doesn't know the variety 
> name. She
> doesn't know of another persimmon in the neighbourhood. I only know of one 
> other
> persimmon in Vancouver, but there probably are more. I had just never seen 
> one
> before.
> 
> I thought it might be interesting to grow seedlings and graft the variety 
> on to
> seedlings.
> 
> I brought home a couple of fruits and thought they tasted quite good, sweet 
> with
> no astringency, but they had no seeds!
> 
> Are the seeds microscopic? What size and colour are they? Is there a 
> seedless
> variety?
> 
> I saw some in the supermarket today and they looked just like my friend's
> persimmon and they were labelled 'Fuyu'. They were $3 Cdn each.
> 
> Derry
> 
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