I pulled open a flower from Chocolate. It looks very much like a wind pollinated flower. If that's true and they are self fertile, then cross/self will be hit and miss depending on how much pollen of each type is blowing around.

Some nurseries may list Asian persimmons as being self-fertile, but I think that they mean really to convey that the trees will fruit without an outside pollen source, as most will fruit without pollination. As far as I know, differences in fruit quality are often seen between pollinated and non-pollinated fruit, but not between the fruit of truly self-fertile trees and cross-pollinated fruit.

creekweb:

Thanks for the reply. I did some more reading, which I should have done in the first place, and at least now know how complicated it is.

One more question. Will my Eureka be full of seeds if I get another that pollinates it? Not sure I want that.

I have Coffeecake, as well as Fuyu and Giant Fuyu. It has both male and female flowers, and the boys and girls look very different. The fruit has about 4 to 7 seeds, presumably because they get pollinized. I have never seen bees, but I might have seen the tiny flies, so I think they might be dong it, or maybe it is the wind, although the flowers all hang upside down, so I kinda doubt it. I will say Coffeecake is a flowering fiend, in several years it put out flowers all over again in July or August, despite the fact it already had a bunch of large fruits growing.

If you want to see pictures it is flowering now, I can shoot a few and e-mail them to you (I find the web picture pages too annoying to post them in my posts here)

Carla in Sac