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["Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>]

There is a current persimmon group with a certain amount of email discussion. 
 Jerry Lehman is the coordinator.  I don't have so much info on hardiness, 
but persimmons are notoriously hard to transplant.  They really have to be 
baby-sat with water the whole of the first growing season or they die below 
the graft or simply just die.  Jerry prefers to plant seed and later graft 
the seedlings.  I understand that the problem is that once they leaf out they 
don't produce new roots for the rest of the season so that top can outgrow 
the roots.  Another note While American persimmons won't ripen on the window 
sill  like the kaki  if you can get them to the stage of turning from green 
to orange (half half) you can ripen them the rest of the way in a paper bag. 
The quality and flavor when I did it seemed as good as off the tree and for 
Garretson it was considerably better as tree ripened seemed to have an odd 
granular texture like some peaches get.  I believe it is a bacterial effect 
but it didn't happen with the ones that were picked when they were firm but 
starting to turn and then ripened in a paper bag.

Martha Davis

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