Re: [nafex] Szukis persimmon

After 20 years of trying to grow persimmons here in z4b sw WI, I
finally have 2 persimmons growing that are about 5 years old (& at the
most 5 feet high). They were both grown from seed I got from John
Gordon (tho they were mixed in with pawpaw seed I got from John). I
tried 3 or 4 times to get Meader persimmon to make it thru our winters
but it never did.

~mIEKAL

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Jay Cutts <orders@cuttsreviews.com> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I have two Szukis plants in NM at 7000 elevation. I got them from the late
> John Gordon (am I remembering the name right) of western NY as shoots on
> their own roots from a tree that he had.
>
> I had communicated with him about losing the tops of the grafted persimmons
> I kept trying to plant here. He had told me at first that you couldn't get
> named varieties on their own roots because they were too hard to make
> cuttings of but then he was able to get some rooted shoots.
>
> In this region the tops often died during their early years but now two of
> the original three have established themselves and at least some of the top
> survives. They are about 3 or 4 feet tall after at least 12-15 years.
>
> I also have another persimmon that grew up from the roots of an earlier
> grafted plant. Don't know if it is male or female. It's probably close to 20
> years old and is about 6 feet high. I've never noticed flowers on it, nor on
> the two younger plants.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jay
>
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> On 1/7/2017 12:01 PM, sc wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> Is anyone growing the 'Szukis' variety of persimmon -- in a location where
>> there are nearly certainly no (northern strain) wild populations of
>> persimmon around?
>> Thank you,Steve (NJ)
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