Is a non-astringent American-Asian hybrid persimmon within reach?

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Or maybe going the other way, try to cross Taishu with Morris Burton, or JT-02 with one of the MB descendants listed in this thread:

Jerry Lehman on Non-astringent American Persimmons

@alan asked that I bump this out to its own topic. So here’s what Jerry wrote me about some non-astringent American persimmons he has. I’d imagine Cliff England has these trees as well. I forwarded some cuttings to one person on this forum, but I’m not sure where else to get them. My plan is to use these in some of the hybrid American/kaki persimmon breeding I’m doing. Here’s what Jerry said: I made a trip over to the Claypool orchard to collect additional varieties for you. So here is some i…

It sounds like these fruits aren’t truly and uniformly non-astringent, but have the genetics to increase the odds of a good cross. So, if “we” could get to work on that, that would be great.