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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

How did they taste?

-matt
z5 se MI

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM,  <bassgarden@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if it's possible for the tree to change its sex, but there 
> are many persimmon varieties that have both male and female flowers.
> I have tried a couple varieties of D. Lotus. One is at the Brooklyn 
> botanical gardens that bears elongated fruit and turn dark when ripe. It is 
> totally seedless with the absence of a male. The other is a seedling of a 
> wild Korean persimmon. The tree produces heavy crop of small round fruit 
> that is full with seeds.
> I usually graft persimmon as soon as the rootstock starts breaking 
> dormancy. Many methods will work for grafting but it has to be done at the 
> right time. Make sure to select a shoot that is growing straight up rather 
> than a side branch. Since persimmons often prunes its side branches.
>
> Bass Samaan
> Zone 6, Pa
> Bass
> www.treesofjoy.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Lee <mark.lee.phd@gmail.com>
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> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:54:16
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> Subject: [nafex] Diospyros lotus
>
> Over 20 years ago I grew a Diospyros lotus tree from seed. This is a
> persimmon species often used for rootstock for the more common
> persimmon species, like Diospyros kaki. D. lotus is also known as date
> lote. Like other Diospyros species, date lote trees are either male or
> female. My seedling turned out to be male. I have a second date lote
> tree that I planted 7 years ago. I can't remember where that tree came
> from. I have lost track. I was thinking that this second tree was just
> a clone of the first one, from a sprout that sprang up near the base
> of the first one. To my surprise, I found yesterday that the second
> tree has female flowers. The male tree is growing in the shade, the
> female is in the sun. Could it be that the clone changed from male to
> female?
>
> Another question: How can I graft on the persimmon? Every attempt I
> have made to graft date lote end up dying. I want to get the two trees
> near each other so I can get fruit in my lifetime. Maybe I should hand
> pollinate.
>
> -Mark Lee, Seattle
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