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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 07:03 AM 6/23/2006, you wrote:
> Does anyone know the story and origin of the Prok persimmon?  I've 
> heard that it is a hybrid with kaki, and I've also heard that it is 
> a seedling of Pipher.  Is its pedigree known?

I don't know its background, and can't remember where I got my Prok 
scion - probably at a KNGA meeting, or maybe from John 
Gordon.  There's also Korp(Prok spelled backwards; a sibling or 
seedling of Prok) that's supposed to be equally good.
My Prok hasn't fruited yet (maybe this year?  I've not looked at it 
recently to see if it bloomed or set fruit.), but nobody I know 
personally who's had it fruit for them has made any indication to me 
that it's anything other than a good quality large-fruited D.virginiana.
John Gordon keeps pushing the thought that Geneva Long may be a 
D.v.XD.k. hybrid, but I got my GL scions from John, and if what he 
sent was true to name, GL is definitely NOT a hybrid - it's an OK 
persimmon, but no better than any number of unselected natives that 
I've eaten; just an average size American persimmon fruit, with good flavor.

I've got good fruit set on several of my older persimmon grafts this 
year - Yates, Weber, Early Golden, but I've not looked at Prok or the 
larger Claypool selections that I finally transplanted 2-3 years ago.

LLP