Persimmon cuttings (dormant ones, at least) are very hard to root. They graft very easily, though.
Some persimmons, especially ones related to "Early Golden" will often produce limbs of male flowers. This is NOT a stable trait - graft a new tree from the male limb and it will go back to being female. When the tree matures, it can again produce a stray limb of male flowers now and then. There are also male trees that will produce small, seedless fruit, and a very few "males" that will produce some female and some PERFECT flowers. "Szukis" is one of these. Jim Claypool's "F-100" is another. There are efforts going on to breed perfect flowered persimmons, using these odd types as a basis.
-Lon Rombough
On Nov 11, 2004, at 8:53 PM, David W Hausmann wrote:
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