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bhawkins 8A Dallas (
bobhawkins695@gmail.com) on
Sat, Oct 18, 14 at 8:49
| What is your most productive, and least productive persimmon? My fuyu's and eureka produce the most for me. Chocolate, coffeecake, giombo, and seijo's are moderately productive. Hachiya's and ichi kei ki I only get a few Thanks, Bob
Dallas |
This post was edited by bhawkins on Sat, Oct 18, 14 at 9:05
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RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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What do you do with all this fruits. It is way more than you can eat and give away.
Persimmon is the only difficult plant for me. Two fuyu trees died on me during the past two years and I planted the third one this year, and it did not grow much. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| All the persimmons that some refer to as pollination constant astringent that I've had experience with have all been at least moderately productive. Some, e.g. Great Wall and Sung Hui, have been overly productive to the point of threatening damage to the tree from the weight of the fruit. Hachiya, which I grew for a number of years until the tree was shaded out by my favorite apple tree, produced moderately for me. As Hachiya is one of the main domestic commercial varieties, I would expect that others have found it to be a good producer and that your experience with it may be related to the idiosyncrasies of its location. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| Hi Hillrock, I'm trying to figure out what works best for me. When I move into a new house in a year, I'll pick a few of my favorites. Do you give yours extra water? Mine seem to do well here. Where did you get yours? Thanks Creekweb, I expected you'd know! I've read Hachiya is prolithic in ca, but sparse in fla. I really like it, but I need more production to justify a spot at my new house. I'll go study the others you mentioned. |
This post was edited by bhawkins on Sun, Oct 19, 14 at 7:04
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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The first two fuyu were potted trees from local nursery. Maybe was over watered. But they were watered the same as other trees. The last one was bare root tree and sprouted very late (Jun). Hopefully it will grow normally next year.
So far, which one is the best tasty persimmon? |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| I like fuyu's and giombo the best. I've bought persimmons from doans in Irving they all do well. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| i currently grow tamopan , honan red, suruga, and saijo. Lost 2 fuyu, 2 saijo, and 1 hachiya....all inground. Now growing saijo in pot. My most productive are Honan red and tamopan, but they are both in ground. They are very productive. Would not recommend tamopan. It would be good for baked goods only. Very little flavor or sweetness, but large. Honan red is very good. Sweet with vanilla flavor. Suruga is very similar to the fuyu I grew, but much sweeter. None of them come close to saijo. If you like them rich and super sweet, saijo is by far the best. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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I have not been to Doans yet. Have to go there to check it out.
How old is your fuyu tree? |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| Doans sells bare root trees from Dave Wilson and lecook. They get their new stock in Feb or so; be sure to call before driving, they celebrate several Vietnamese holidays. I've had better luck with the left coast rootstocks. Nurseries on the east coast use wild persimmon rootstock and they grow much slower for me. I've had a fuyu's 5 years ; had another older one but it broke in a thunderstorm. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| Thank you for the information. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| Bob, How many fruit trees are you planning to move to your new hourse? The big So jujube will be impossible to move. Tony |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| I'll be starting over. I'm not sure if I could move any of my trees, considering size and transplant shock. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| Do you move to different city or just a new house in the same place? Tree take time to grow. So moving tree can save your time. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| Im moving about 10 miles. My wife wants a 1 story which we'll build. I'll still have a lot of trees at my office building. I'd be afraid of killing the trees if I tried to move them. |
RE: Persimmons; most productive, least productive
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| I bought persimmons from England's Orchard and Nursery (www.nuttrees.net) (I am jn SC) and they have done very well. |
This post was edited by SCMG on Mon, Oct 20, 14 at 22:23
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