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[Lester Davis <lhdavis8@knology.net>]

Does any of your Kakis have seeds also?   If so I would think you have a Kaki 
that has male blooms as well as female.  Hanafuyu  throws male blooms almost 
every year here in Georgia, there are others Kaki  varieties 
that will rarely have male blooms.   If you have Hanafuyu watch it closely 
when blooming to see if it has a male blooms on a limb or two.   If so and 
you have seeds form in both Kaki and Yates   there is a good 
possibility they are crossing.   I would certainly like some of the Yates 
seeds if you have seeds forming in Kaki and Yates under any condition.  
  
Lester H. Davis 
Columbus, GA 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Elizabeth Hilborn" <ehilborn@mebtel.net> 
To: "mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters" 
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Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 3:51:18 PM 
Subject: [nafex] My persimmons appear to be breaking the rules 

Hi folks, 

I have a single /D. virginiana/ (90 chromosome selected variety), Yates, 
on my property. I have multiple endemic /D. virginiana/ trees that with 
their small, astringent fruit, I am assuming are all 60 chromosome 
trees.I have multiple /D. kakis/ (all grafted, fruit bearing trees) that 
I have planted in my orchard as well. 

For the last 2 years, my Yates has produced fruit that contains 
abundant, full-sized seeds. My understanding is that the endemic 60 
chromosome trees will not pollinate the 90 chromosome varieties and 
produce full-sized viable seeds. However, all my kakis are all 
presumably ‘females’ as they are grafted, fruit-bearing varieties. 
It does not make sense to me given my current understanding of 
persimmons that my Yates fruit would all be full of seeds. Are the seeds 
somehow /kaki /x /virginiana/ crosses? 

I am not aware of any nonnative persimmons among the neighboring 
properties within at least 1 mile... 

Any thoughts? 

Betsy Hilborn 
7a central NC 


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