Yes, but there are loads of male persimmons around there anyway. And the Meader cultivar is mostly self-fertile. It will bear fruit without being pollinated by another tree, but they usually won't have seeds in them.
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Creating Transgendered Persimmon Trees: Updated 14 months later
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Yes, but there are loads of male persimmons around there anyway. And the Meader cultivar is mostly self-fertile. It will bear fruit without being pollinated by another tree, but they usually won't have seeds in them.
mattech
Deranged Throat-Puncher
Very cool. Any way to know gender beside seeing fruit?
You can tell by the flowers. Male trees will have clusters of flowers, they are single on female trees.
Update:
Looks like almost all of them are starting to take and grow. Here are some shots of a few that my buddy down there sent me when he checked them a couple days ago. I did a few peach and mulberries around home that are looking good, too.
Looks like almost all of them are starting to take and grow. Here are some shots of a few that my buddy down there sent me when he checked them a couple days ago. I did a few peach and mulberries around home that are looking good, too.
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Forest Grump
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Yes, you collect scion wood while dormant & put it in the fridge in a plastic bag with a moist paper towel until the bud wood is leafing out & the sap is flowing well so the graft will take. Check it every now & again in the fridge & if it is moldy swap out the towel for a new one. If you try to graft while both are dormant there is a much greater chance of failure, because the graft dries out. Paraffin film like he used really helps preserve moisture in the graft (but I have used wax from a ring you seal a toilet to the floor with
). If you wait too late the graft may not harden off before winter.
Jeff C.
Chief Grass Master
So far so good, HillBilly.
mattech
Deranged Throat-Puncher
Pretty cool
Yep, what FG said. I cut the scion wood in early March, and keep it in the fridge.
Yes, you collect scion wood while dormant & put it in the fridge in a plastic bag with a moist paper towel until the bud wood is leafing out & the sap is flowing well so the graft will take. Check it every now & again in the fridge & if it is moldy swap out the towel for a new one. If you try to graft while both are dormant there is a much greater chance of failure, because the graft dries out. Paraffin film like he used really helps preserve moisture in the graft (but I have used wax from a ring you seal a toilet to the floor with
This is the first time that I've used the parafilm, and I've been pretty impressed. I also used latex caulk to seal the cut surfaces and around the ends of the film.
The parafilm is already starting to biodegrade after a month; but there seems to be a good callous on the grafts, so it probably stayed long enough. Maybe next year I'll double-wrap it.
Here is the same tree in the original pic a month and a half later. Growing nicely.
Here is another one that I did at the same time-this one is a transgendered mulberry. I grafted scions from an Illinois Everbearing onto a wild male red mulberry seedling. The longest shoot is about a foot long now.
Hoping to get some good growth by fall.
Here is another one that I did at the same time-this one is a transgendered mulberry. I grafted scions from an Illinois Everbearing onto a wild male red mulberry seedling. The longest shoot is about a foot long now.
Hoping to get some good growth by fall.
Clifton Hicks
Senior Member
I'll be doing the same one of these winters. Nice work.
From what I've seen so far, looks like I got about 90+% of takes with the bark grafting.
PappyHoel
Senior Member
That's pretty cool.
davidhelmly
Senior Member
This is a very interesting thread, I will definitely be keeping up with it. I hope they turn out good for you, any guess at how many years it will be before they bear fruit?
This is a very interesting thread, I will definitely be keeping up with it. I hope they turn out good for you, any guess at how many years it will be before they bear fruit?
Some of the new growth was already developing fruit this year that I had to pinch off to keep them growing.
Crakajak
Daily Driveler News Team
Looks like you are going to be very successful with the grafting. Congrats.
