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  • From: "Bob Kelly" <bkelly66@bellsouth.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] persimmon seeds
  • Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:29:47 -0600

Derry,

What zone are you in in Vancouver? Most oriental persimmons --such as Fuyu--do not survive north of zone 6, marginal in upper zone 7 around here. I'd think D. virginia would grow there; much hardier than D. 'kaki'.

Bob Kelly
Aberdeen, MS Zone 7b
----- Original Message ----- From: "derry&bill" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>
To: "nafex" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:57 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] persimmon seeds


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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