Persimmons 2025

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Your Comments 'Geneva Long' Persimmon

A friend has scionwood access. He really likes it, but I don’t believe he’s had opportunities to taste very many other persimmons. His comments are it has kaki effect. He described the texture/taste to 1/2 kaki and 1/2 American. Your opinions or comments are appreciated. Thank you, Dax

Persimmons in Maine

Just thought of this today, might be useful to you Jesse. John Gordon’s book on nuts and some fruits, there is a section on persimmons and the challenges of growing them further north: http://johnsankey.ca/songnews/nutgrowing.html#M Here is an excerpt on varieties that have worked: "Several native persimmons matured their fruit locally, even during recent short cool seasons. Pieper persimmon produces ripe fruit even though it overbears and should be thinned. It is worrying to see Pieper goin…

Weber American Persimmon

About 4 yrs ago, I ordered the Geneva Long American persimmon from the late John Gordon and I asked him about the Weber American persimmon. He told me the fruit was good but small in size compared to Prok or Geneva Long so I did not graft this variety. Here are the photos of Prok and Geneva Long below. [image] //growingfruit-images.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/5/59d238443724b38e2f021b63581be2607f83910e.jpg(image larger than 5000KB) Tony

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