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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 23:31:15 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Scott,

I keep forgetting ibiblio doesn't do color. I'll convert to bold to make it
easier to follow.
> >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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