In a message dated 11/12/2009 12:07:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, holycow@frontiernet.net writes:
Half would be males, and the others would produce blue,
yes, but inedible fruits. What's the point? They'd do better to amuse
themselves by grafting a branch from a known female blue persimmon onto a
good quality tree. Donna
Donna is correct. There is great genetic diversity in persimmon and planting the seed you have a far less chance than 50/50 of getting a good blue [hue] persimmon. Diospyros is not homozygous, but rather is heterozygous.
Jerry Lehman, Chair
NAFEX American Persimmon Group
7780 Persimmon St.
Terre Haute, IN 47802
812-298-8733