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["Bob Kelly" <bkelly66@bellsouth.net>]

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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