Fertilizing with nitrogen while fruit is developing can cause fruit drop.^R

Grafting

70-80F. Persimmons bud out relatively later; I would guess my leaves are usually around 1/2″-1″ long when the temps have warmed up enough to graft. The ideal window is a bit hard to hit as you want it to be warm but when the plant gets too far along grafts seem to be rejected. If the buds are small the bark may not be slipping yet, persimmons are a bit delayed on getting the bark slipping compared to other trees.^R

Cultivars

• Chocolate
  • more heat tolerant in Phoenix^[1]
• Coffee Cake^[1]
  • leaves are tender and get burnt in Phoenix^[1]
• Fuyu (Jiro)
• Giant Fuyu
• Haichia
• Izu
• Saijo (incredibly sweet)^[1]
• kuro kaki (black)
• Huk Gam/Huk Kam^[1]

Rootstock

• D. virginiana
  • handles phoenix soils better than lotus and kaki^[1]

Links

• Ison’s (bare root persimmon supplier)

Plant Logs