To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>, breen@fedcoseeds.com
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Rooting details
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:48:07 -0800
Elwyn sent me three root cuttings of "Meader" persimmon one time. The
idea being that persimmons are fairly prone to sucker, so we figured
that root pieces would sprout shoots fairly easily. Three isn't
exactly a good sample, though I wasn't able to get any to sprout.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association
"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Nov 12, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Heron Breen wrote:
In one of Elwyn Meader's exchanges with another nursery which he sent
plants to,
root cuttings were the method the nursery was intending to use, maybe by
layering? These are root cuttings, not rooted greenwoods I am speaking
of.
Root-grafting, since it seems grafting is acceptable to persimmons,
might be a
way to get own-root behavior? Or are their roots so tender to handling
this would
be discouraged?