I grew 3 pots of hybrid persimmon seeds about a month ago. So far only the 15 seeds of Kassandra x open from Cliff England grew well. The other two pots didn’t germinate. I will give them a little more time and will dig some seeds up to investigate why it didn’t grow. The other 2 were Taishu x chocolate male and JT-02 x possible Taishu and Chocolate male.
Tony
Here’s a hybrid I’m excited about. It’s a mix of Honan Red, Nikita’s Gift, and a male offspring of Rosseyanka. First year fruiting. I’m hoping the star shape continues to be pronounced as it matures.
It looks great. Finger crossed. Please keep us updated.
Tony
There are advocates for often burying the graft union for select trees (see lengthy post here):
As explained, the decision seems to depend almost entirely on whether the rootstock is (1) standard / seedling [bury], or (2) dwarfing [do not bury].
For apples and pears, which are almost always sold on rootstock that affects size, the general recommendation is to plant the graft union a couple inches above the ground. The goal is to avoid scion rooting.
For standard / seedling rootstock, it doesn’t matter if the scion roots.
The paper cautions against planting the union too deep for fear of suffocating the roots and/or pushing the roots into poor subsoil.
Wow! It has fivefold symmetry, like pomes, instead of the usual fourfold symmetry of persimmons.
That seems like a fundamental change.
I haven’t grown persimmons for a while. Are fivefold fruits an occasional variant?
I caught this on FB, too. Eagerly anticipating updates. I hope it holds the fruit until fall!
Me too. It set and dropped fruit two years ago. I feel like it should hold some of its fruits this year, but who knows with persimmons.
I’d love to hear the taste test results on this one.
That certainly sounds like an interesting mix, but there have to be a lot more male plants mixed in there right? Or was the same male Rossiyanka offspring used multiple times?
Or is it the Red Honan x male Ro, and that male offspring x Nikitskaya Bordovaya?
I didn’t want to start a whole new thread for this question . . . Are these persimmon seedlings?
My Kasandra fruits have been seeded in recent years. Many seeds fall (or get spit out) onto the ground below the tree. I was weeding today and noticed these, wondering if they could be seedlings. I’ve included one mature leaf for comparison.
@jrd51 … these are seedlings I grew from rich tooie seeds a few years back. One is now Kasandra the other Nikitas gift.
Looks pretty close to what you have.
TNHunter
