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[Jerry Lehman <jwlehmantree@gmail.com>]

On 1/8/2017 4:24 PM, England's Orchard and NUrseryEngland's Orchard and 
NUrsery wrote:
> Rooted trees take a very long time to produce fruit I do not know why and it 
> is a draw back to the process and we should examine it again but the method
> is to just to slow to make any production of it profitable at this level, 
> Cliff
When you say rooted trees you're smean induced roots? The Rosseyanka 
trees I have from Paula Pijut's in-vitro propagation would tend the back 
that up. My experience is that grafted Rosseyanka, the same as Morris 
Burton, do take longer to come into bearing after grafting than most 
other persimmon varieties. Also my in-vitro Rosseyanka seem to be less 
vigorous, but I can't say for sure because the timer or two when we had 
a night of -10° and lower there was considerable winter freeze damage.  
Jerry