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  • From: bmn@iglou.com
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] blue persimmon seeds wanted...
  • Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:22:21 -0500 (EST)

I already covered these points with the requestor. He just likes growing
oddities and doesn't want to graft. I can only inform folks, not make
choices for others.


On Thu, November 12, 2009 00:06, Kieran &/or Donna wrote:
> Yuck. From what I know of blue persimmons, they are just the ones with
> the most tannin. Pretty much inedible till frost, and maybe not then.
> The
> orange ones are better eating. I thought we were in the armpit of
> persimmon genetics till I went up to Overton co TN where we got a tour of
> a large cow pasture with many blue persimmons . If the seeds were planted
> the trees would look exactly like seedlings from good varieties, and would
> take up exactly as much room, and take just as long to crop. Half would
> be males, and the others would produce blue, yes, but inedible fruits.
> What's the point? They'd do better to amuse
> themselves by grafting a branch from a known female blue persimmon onto a
> good quality tree. That way they could show someone the difference
> without all that wasted space and time. Donna






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