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[Lon Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

A method used at the National Clonal Germplasm Repository to root hazelnuts, which root  poorly from cuttings:
Scions are grafted on potted rootstocks in late winter or early spring.  A wire tie is put on the scion just above the (healed) graft union.  A plastic sleeved is put over the whole thing and filled with baked sawdust.  This is kept moist through the growing season.  The wire slowly girdles the scion, forcing it to root just about the wire.  When the little tree goes dormant in the fall, the sleeve is removed and the scion, now rooted, is cut off and planted.    I imagine you could do the same with persimmons and get some own-rooted trees that way.
=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 13, 2004, at 7:42 PM, Heron Breen wrote:

Hi all,
Just throwing out some possibly untried theories for Persimmon propagation. I was 
reading through RJ Garner's Grafter's Handbook, which is a great book, and some of 
the techniques seemed like worth a try, although not mentioned for persimmon.
To establish own-root plants on a home-scale, maybe trying Nurse-grafting, which is 
in-arch grafting a long scion to a already established tree, with 1/3 of the scion 
buried in the ground. Garner says this has been done to root difficult to root 
cultivars or species, with a Ribston Pippin scion in the illustration. The graft is 
basically temporary, although you must disconnect it, and for a year or two, the 
scion is nurished from the other plant, will its heel end forms roots. Never done, 
don't know how it would work, but I am interested in trying it, except I would have 
to get a tree established before trying it. It is hard to describe this graft, so I 
won't try. Maybe buying/borrowing this book, or another one, is a better way to 
learn it because since I haven't done it, I would only be reciting.