I found this nice little orchard website and it looks like they grow some hard to find pawpaws and persimmons etc. Maybe a source for some scion wood or seeds?
I have no idea what their goal is…they are non profit but want to popularize fruit bearing plants in Appalachia…
Etowah Tennessee
I thought I would bump this and see if anyone had given them a visit and purchased anything. Seems like they are building a nice collection of trees and scionwood. They only do pickup for trees, but will ship scionwood, but shipping is a fixed $25 and scionwood is $10/stick so pricey although they have a lot of things that are hard to find elsewhere.
More than i have ever seen…
really interesting, does anyone know who CPJO, BBF, and PCF are as original sources? I recognize a few but theres a lot of abbreviations I dont
An interesting interview with the guy who started the nursery.
Hmm… another route would be to go thru Ockoo…
Which probably used these sources to get their materials-
https://www.ockoo.farm/other-growers
If i may put my observation from also visiting most of these sites and resources…
The gatekeepers to most all of these amazing persimmons and pawpaws etc seem to want you to visit their location in order to Barnum the whole experience…which is great and i am not saying this as a negative thing…
But i think at some point or another there needs to be a more open gate for growers to have these things easily and readily… as Lehman wanted in his vision of persimmons.
Ockoo says it well on his site-
‘It is our mission to help popularize these fruits. We want you to have them, and to appreciate them. Here is a community of growers and scion sellers to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.’
Somehow that works out to ‘Sold Out’ or ‘We do not ship’.
There is a market for someone somewhere that brings this to the level that it needs to be i think.
Sold Out and $100 per tree is not the way.
No disrespect to anyone i have linked… but there needs to be some kind of middle ground I think for this to move forward.
i mean theres plenty selling cheaper and most will sell scion for much cheaper. and sold out, what are they supposed to do, they produced probably as much as they could. youre just looking at after sales have been up for several months
About 4 hours east of me.
North/South wise they are about the same as me… should be a good reference for ripening times.
TNHunter
