Hi Scott, It would save me a tremendous amount of space and make me extremely glad if I could fit all 4 varieties into a single 30' x 30' circle area dedicated to the 4-in-1 tree's life-long spread. I want to bounce still a couple of potential complications with this senario, all of which may be resolvable. And believe me: I am willing to be vigilant and careful in maintaining the tree's 4-way balance if it turns out that I decide to things this way. 4 Separate rootstocks/cultivars in one hole: 1. Peach trees are, even when left unrestricted, smaller trees with smaller trunk and root systems then American persimmons. If I give each cultivar its respective 1/4 room to spread its foliage, I fear that each tree will struggle to obtain enough solar sourced energy to support itself; although, one point could be to note that pruning will keep the trunk and roots small and potentially/hopefully proportionate to each tree's respective trunk/root-stem/needs. The 4+ major scaffolds arising from the base of the peach, cherry, wild-growing persimmon, etc. are sharing the same nutrients via the same root-system. If I ever decide to let the tree grow to full form and size, the 4 trunks would grow so large and strive to get away from the other trunks that they would fall down. 2. Jerry Lehman convinced me that it is not likely that American persimmons would properly inosculate, that instead of fusing they would bruise and rot - specifically American persimmons, not all trees. This doesn't, however, have anything to do with spacing the four trees in the same hole 20" apart. 3. However, it seems to me pretty feasible: which is to carefully keep the 4 trees in relative 1/4-balance within the 4-way circle. 4. Your description of that cherry tree above makes me think that we are talking about not many trees in the same hole, but a single tree bearing various root stocks in-grafted? Is that what you recommend? I've been told that persimmons are notorious from dropping former limbs when new ones are added. Let me know which situation you recommend for me: 4 trees in one hole or should I do a multi-graft tree - if I could do the later and be secure that it would work, I could just keep my 4 saplings for the future purpose of being the scion bank for the multi-graft tree. I keep hearing that I shouldn't do a multi-graft persimmon tree. I just got my persimmons in the mail and I quickly put them in the ground pending what I finally decide upon. I really appreciate discussing my options on this with you - at least when I do choose a plan, I'll have considered practically every option. Thanks, Steve

If you want them for houseplants, I can't say as I've ever seen an effective plant light that was also "stylish". If you want effective, folks can probably help you more ...

Yeah, I have to sometimes dust my real plants, but I just wash the leaves with a wet rag. They like it. Plant massage. :) I don't have a lot of house plants (year round garden outside, right now choking with roses). Although I own a fake cactus, it was part of an art project. I have an antherium on my bathtub ledge that is currently blooming. It usually gives me one bloom in July. It might be happier elsewhere, but it's been fine there for 14 years. :) It was a present from she who was the lady next door when I was a child. There's a garden window in my kitchen where I had a lot of plants before they got ants. They went outside. Now it has several phalaenopsis that were given to me in December. One may be beyond help, but two have spikes. There's also a little plant with red brachts and white flowers which perks up in the sun and droops at night, and a little red leafed plant I grew from seed, but doesn't seem so happy now that it's in a real pot. And one low light plant in the powder room, which I may need to move to more light. Plants die in the powder room, but they make it nicer, so I try to catch them before they die....

Well, I got my answer concerning raccoons and artificial water plants. It took them a few days, but finally the raccoons did their thing. The photo shows what's left of two of the four floating water lilies in the pond. The other two were untouched. A couple days ago, I added two dozen small feeder (gold) fish to the pond. Perhaps that's what excited the raccoons. They couldn't get the fish (too fast and too many places to hide), so they took out their frustration on the "plants"--maybe? Who knows what goes on in those little, but creative, brains. Bill