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  • From: Jwlehman@aol.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Getting a Chocolate kaki to make more female flowers
  • Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:22:04 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Scott,

I'll insert in blue.

> Jerry, I did put some compost, fertilizer, and bark mulch on the tree
> this spring (and every previous spring) so I the soil should be good.
> Good,
> OK. The flower types do seem to cluster by branchlet. I wonder if older
> branches are more likely to turn to male flowers and I need to let the tree
> send up some new shoots which will start female? You bring up an
> interesting
> thought and you may be on to something. Persimmon naturally prune off
> limbs that are heavily shaded. My thought on this has always been, less sun
> lower sugars being made and maybe stored in the branch making it weaker. So
> if a branch has many fruits it could have less nutrients stored because it
> fed the fruits. Then that weaker branch could drop off same as heavily
> shaded branches. This could cause the tree to have more male flowering
> branches.
> If that is a possibility how to cure it? I don't think pruning limbs alone
> would be the answer. Maybe thinning fruits on heavily bearing limbs would
> be better. When the flowering is done this year I will give parts of the
> tree with no fruits a strong pruning and see what that does for next year.
> Maybe remove some of the male flowering branches and thin fruits, both. I'd
> select male branches to prune that shade fruiting branches to give them
> more
> sun. Keep in mind, I'm guessing. I really don't know.

Good Luck. Bad news is it will take a few years to see if this works, but
you don't have much to loose.

Jerry




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