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Originally Posted by Richard
Mauro, here in southern CA we have had no luck air-layering (marcotting) fruiting persimmon species, such as:
Japanese Persimmon (Diospyros kaki),
Black Persimmon (Diospyros digyna),
Date Plum (Diospyros lotus).
If you have a technique for these fruits I would really be interested !
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Hi, Richard! About the plants you've mentioned above. I, myself, have not yet done the marcotting practice on such trees. Here in Japan we propagate these trees only by grafting. The air-layering practice is not advisible to be done here in Japan, because the tree will lack the main root and will not stand the strong winds, especially the typhoons we have here in East Asia every year. The only fruit tree we propagate by air-layering in Okinawa is the Chinese fruit called Litchi all the others we propagate by grafting. I have done a lot of marcotting with fruit trees just for fun as an experiment. Tell me, what do you use for marcotting? wet moss? I'm not familiar with the English words for marcotting materials. When I failed the marcotting practice using wet moss, I used heavy clay with a lot of moisture and achieved success. I will try marcotting the trees you mentioned above here in Japan. Thanks. Bye. Mauro