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HarveyC

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Posted 1415679473	Reply with quote #1

John Preece was at the pomegranate and persimmon tasting at Wolfskill on Saturday and I was mentioning to him a grower that had wanted to order some fig cuttings but who had missed the 11/1 deadline. John went on to say that they will be changing the ordering process at Davis so that there is only a few month window each year for folks to place their orders. He said under the current system they've had people order the same thing 2 or 3 times in a year, apparently not realizing that they've already got an order in for the accession. John said that Corvalis does it this way and it has worked out well. __________________ Harvey - Correia Farms Isleton, CA (Sacramento County) USDA zone 9b, Sunset zone 14 http://www.figaholics.com https://www.facebook.com/Figaholics

ediblelandscapingsc

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Posted 1415685871	Reply with quote #2

you are so lucky to go to the persimmon tasting at wolfskill. I love the dave wilson video when they toured the persimmon collection. I'd love to find cuttings of some of the varieties they have there. __________________ South Carolina zone 7b-8

HarveyC

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Posted 1415687406	Reply with quote #3

The crowd was pretty bad this year so I didn't even get to taste some of the persimmon as the fruit was all gone by the time I got to the table. The most eventful thing for me was taking a couple of miracle fruit berries with me so that I could get a different tasting of the very tart Haku Botan this year. I shared half of a berry with a UCD student who was wild about the experience. I then gave the other berry to the USDA's geneticist, Malli, and he also tasted the Haku Botan and he was simply amazed as well. :) Here's a photo taken from the end with pomegranates with persimmon being on the far end. There were approximately 100 folks there for the tasting. One guy made a repeat trip from Chicago to come to taste pomegranates (and also pick/buy fruit at my farm) and another came from Italy. He took back cuttings and a plant from my place, hope he made it back okay. __________________ Harvey - Correia Farms Isleton, CA (Sacramento County) USDA zone 9b, Sunset zone 14 http://www.figaholics.com https://www.facebook.com/Figaholics

garden_whisperer

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Posted 1415697076	Reply with quote #4

theres alot of wild persimmon growing all over around here. __________________ Dave Zone 6b Illinois "Be the change you wish to see in the world"

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