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[lee reich <lreich@hvc.rr.com>]

I've never had much difficulty germinating persimmon seeds. I soak the seed for a few hours after extracting it from the fruit, wash it, then put it in a plastic bag in the refrigerator along with some moist potting soil. I take the bag out of the refrigerator after about three months, keep it in a warm room, and wait for roots to appear. Once they appear, I pot up individual seeds into deep containers.

Now, grafting persimmons...that's where I have not been as successful. I get only about 50 percent take with whip and tongue grafts made when rootstocks start sprouting leaves. Many persimmon stems are deciduous, so one theory that I have is that many of the grafts that don't take were made with stems that would have been deciduous, so don't live.

Lee Reich, PhD

www.leereich.com

Books by Lee Reich:

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

A Northeast Gardener's Year

The Pruning Book

Weedless Gardening

On Nov 15, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Jerrydana5@aol.com wrote:

Has anybody had any success at sprouting persimmon seeds?  I've tried several times and always failed.  Any advice would be helpful--I obviously don't know what I'm doing.   Jerry in southern Indiana

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