Sex Change Operation - Transfered from QDMA forum

[yoderjac]

persimmons up this way are coloring up, easy to spot from the road now..... so many males around, need to give em the bruce jenner. :eek:

Who would have thought it when I originally titled the thread? :eek:

 

[yoderjac]

Amazing Success! When I first started I was using scions from my native trees. While they really took off in terms of producing vegetation, only one tree of that initial set has started producing persimmons. I then started grafting some named varieties as well as some scions from other folks across the country from their native trees.

In May of 2015, I grafted a scion I got from Todd (DogDoc on the other forum) that I grafted to a small native persimmon tree. Folks say that you can get your first persimmon or two in the third leaf after grafting. Well, Todd's scion beat that. I happened to be planting trees near this tree today and here is what I saw:

Sure enough, this tree is in its second leaf and already producing some persimmons!

Thanks,

Jack

 

[yoderjac]

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[yoderjac]

This activity is finally paying off pretty well:

This was a male tree grafted with a 100-45 scion in the spring of 2013.

Thanks,

Jack

 

[yoderjac]

Found another one today that I had grafted and forgot about:

Quite a few persimmons on this one for its size. Unfortunately I can't find what I grafted to it in my records.

Thanks,

Jack