To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Prok Persimmon
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:58:19 -0500
At 07:03 AM 6/23/2006, you wrote:
Does anyone know the story and origin of the Prok persimmon? I've
heard that it is a hybrid with kaki, and I've also heard that it is
a seedling of Pipher. Is its pedigree known?
I don't know its background, and can't remember where I got my Prok
scion - probably at a KNGA meeting, or maybe from John
Gordon. There's also Korp(Prok spelled backwards; a sibling or
seedling of Prok) that's supposed to be equally good.
My Prok hasn't fruited yet (maybe this year? I've not looked at it
recently to see if it bloomed or set fruit.), but nobody I know
personally who's had it fruit for them has made any indication to me
that it's anything other than a good quality large-fruited D.virginiana.
John Gordon keeps pushing the thought that Geneva Long may be a
D.v.XD.k. hybrid, but I got my GL scions from John, and if what he
sent was true to name, GL is definitely NOT a hybrid - it's an OK
persimmon, but no better than any number of unselected natives that
I've eaten; just an average size American persimmon fruit, with good flavor.
I've got good fruit set on several of my older persimmon grafts this
year - Yates, Weber, Early Golden, but I've not looked at Prok or the
larger Claypool selections that I finally transplanted 2-3 years ago.