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  • From: Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Rosseyanka
  • Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:58:06 -0500

Thanks for the comments Jim and Jerry! That gives me hope for my american
persimmons, as well as a new option to try. The Rosseyanka sounds fantastic,
and Jerry's lows are very similar to ours here.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Jim <jelie@new.rr.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I moved three months ago but had a 3 year old Rosseyanka that was doing
> fine at the place we just left. It was in a protected area on the southside
> of a shed but a neighbors box elder was looking like it would eventually
> reduce its sunlight. I am close to the 4b/5a line and the tree itself
> seemed to do very well. To expect any fruit production up this far north
> may be expecting too much. It was a nice looking tree(from Hidden Springs
> Nursery). I have had some decent persimmon production with a Meador that
> passed away from one of our more erratic spring time thaws and freezes. I
> also had some good luck with a Pipher seedling from Oikos that was by far
> the fastest growing persimmon I had up here. Szukis, and NC-10 seemed to
> struggle up here.
>
> Take Care,
>
> Jim Elie
> Green Bay WI
> zone 4b/5a
>
>
> On <3%2F10%2F2011>3/10/2011 5:31 AM, Matt Demmon wrote:
>
>> Jerry, I can't remember where you are in Indiana. I think you are in zone
>> 6,
>> which leads me to believe that I couldn't grow Rosseyanka here in
>> southeast
>> Michigan zone 5. We live in the country and get some good winter winds,
>> have
>> lows to -20 in a bad winter, usually -5 or -10 in a normal winter and
>> probably not as much heat or length to the growing season as you. But I
>> want
>> to try! Think it's worth it?
>>
>> -matt
>> z5 se MI
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:24 PM,<Jwlehman@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 3/9/2011 4:40:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>>> orders@cuttsreviews.com writes:
>>>
>>> Does anyone have Rossayanka? I've also seen some comments that its fruit
>>>> setting may be more susceptible to late frosts than either American or
>>>> Asian persimmons. That's a big concern here. Any experience with it?
>>>>
>>>> Hello Jay,
>>>
>>> I've had Rosseyanka bearing for about 15 years. Maybe only one fruit in
>>> ten
>>> has a seed. My place is loaded with D. virginiana pollen. I have no kaki
>>> persimmons here in Indiana. Yes, it is a late (long) season fruit. I
>>> usually
>>> cut the fruit off the tree about December 1 and bring it in to complete
>>> ripening. There however are some few fruits that fully ripen in November.
>>> Delicious! Frosts don't seem to hurry ripening nor stop their ripening
>>> process. By
>>> Dec. 1 we will have had several deep frosts.
>>>
>>> Jerry
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