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  • From: Lhdavis8@cs.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hana Fuyu persimmon in bloom
  • Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:29:06 EDT

Hanafuyu set fruit here in Columbus, GA 6 weeks ago.  They are size of a quarter
now.  Hanafuyu will set male blooms  at times, look very closely to see if the bloom
has a small fruit or if the blooms are in a small group of three(male).  This year I
did not see male blooms but might have missed.  I only hope there were no male blooms,
Hanafuyu will set a heavy load without pollination, the fruit will be better because
it will be seedless, the fruit won't soften as easily.  I apply Epsom salts each year
to stop the fruit drop and will apply nitrous fertilizer  just before next rain and hope
much of the fruit will drop.  It is a juggling act between Epsom salts which is
Magnesium sulate, which helps the fruit hang on the tree and Nitrogen which
causes fruit drop in persimmons.  We hope for a "June drop", if not all the limbs
will be on the ground.



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