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[Jerry Lehman <jwlehmantree@gmail.com>]

On 1/8/2017 11:27 AM, Melissa Kacalanos via nafex wrote:
> Do we know that persimmons can root from the scion?
10 years ago or more a fellow persimmon enthusiast, David Pierce, tried 
and tried to root persimmon cuttings. He used various rooting compounds, 
and chemical mixtures in his basement under controlled temperature and 
light conditions. He managed to get one cutting to develop one root and 
when he took it out of the liquid the root broke off. Under the right 
conditions they will develop callous but I've never seen any developed 
roots from the callous. They can be propagated in vitro and Prof. Paula 
Pijut at Purdue University researched the subject and wrote a paper on 
it. I have about a half dozen trees of Rosseyanka that she propagated in 
vitro that have been in the ground maybe 10 years but haven't borne any 
fruit. Acclamation (transferring from the test tube to soil) with 
persimmon is a big problem.

Jerry