Should we be trying to develop a non-astringent American persimmon?

[jrd51]

Anybody growing Taishu in the U.S.?

While anecdotal evidence is generally a reason for me to take pause, as a (mostly) field based scientist I’m also in a position to question “the research” on a regular basis and test a generally accepted hypothesis. Sometimes the things I work on do not have enough data to arrive at a sound conclusion, so I have to punt and hope that what we do works well. If it doesn’t, we try something else. The scenario with male /female /hermaphroditic flowers on persimmons kind of makes me wonder if treati…

@disc4tw – Ryan, In the linked thread you wrote << something like Morris Burton which has known excellent fruit but also a tendency to make male flowers could be tested. >>

Can you reconfirm that MB produces male flowers? Thx.