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On the other hand, if they aren't too hard to graft, it might be easy 
to make your own.  Just wait until the female persimmon is big enough 
(already in its final spot) and then graft on a male branch.  I bet you 
could find a scion from a fellow NAFEXer.

Ginda

On Nov 13, 2004, at 10:06 AM, Lon Rombough wrote:

> Commonest way to make such multi-variety trees is to grow them large 
> enough to have a trunk, then topgraft in limbs of various varieties.  
> Growing a persimmon to that size in a nursery would make it extremely 
> hard to transplant.   Persimmons are hard enough to transplant as it 
> is.  They either need to be started and sold in pots, or have the 
> taproot undercut in the nursery a year before transplanting to develop 
> a fibrous root system.
> In short, such  trees would have to cost more than most people want to 
> pay.
>
> On Nov 13, 2004, at 4:30 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:
>
>     Some nurseries sell apple trees with several different varieties 
> grafted
> to them so wouldn't it make sense for nurseries to sell persimmon 
> trees that
> are grafted male AND female?  Has any nursery thought of it?  Does any
> nursery sell such trees?  If so, I'd buy one.
>
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