Jerry Lehman had so many unreleased cultivars and he was breeding up to spring of 2017 and I have most of the Pawpaw seed he Hybridized and most of his really good persimmons but it is just a drop in the bucket compared to what he really has
I was At the Viewing / Funeral of Jerry’s and I have to tell you I cried like a Baby as Jerry was a huge influencer on our operation and the Main Mentor in my life
Some of his cultivars of pawpaw that he released are VE-21 , Maria’s Joy , 250-30, 250-39 JBG, 275-48 Lehman’s Delight 275-56 Benny’s Favorite , 275-69 and 275-70 as well as the diploid’s he used in the hybridizing of Pawpaw
For Persimmon Celebrity U20A , Deer Candy , Deer Magnet , Lehman’s Delight , Barbara’s Blush and so many other numbered selections and really we just have a small portion of them here as the Breeding work of James Claypool and Jerry Lehman’s work did over lap quit a bit
To include the Hybrid persimmons JT-02 , NB-21 , NB-02 NBT-06 and so on now many do not know it but Jerry was responsible for the release of Rosseyanka and Nikitskaya Bordovaya and well as the Hybrid Male that we use to further his breeding goals so there is a wealth of information that he would pass on and well at his age he was still very bright and able to work a full days work and still have fun at it
He is greatly missed and will be for generations to come
