Hardiness: zone 4-9, but likes a long growing season to ripen fully.
Diospyros, fruit of the gods. 30% sugar by weight. Reliable annual cropper once of bearing age. Long lived, resilient, such a gift for the future. Small packets of sugar dropping from the heavens.
Our seedling genetics come from delicious and large fruited named cultivars in various orchards across the country. A delicious persimmon will beget delicious persimmons of similar size, but will have some variability in terms of ripening time. All of the persimmon trees I gather from drop their fruit when ripe, and they are no longer astringent. American persimmons are more or less pest and disease free, but protect them from deer!~
Persimmons are dioecious; around half of seed grown persimmons will be males, and the other half will be fruit producing females. You don’t need males for fruit, but the fruit tend to be larger and I think tastier when pollinated and they will also have seeds! Plant a few if you don’t plan on grafting so you’ll have at least one female tree.
Only potted trees available this year. I had a huge failure on seed this year, so only have a handful of seedlings I’ll need for grafting to next year.
Grafted Varieties:
Dar Sofiyivky (Sophie’s Gift) Hybrid Persimmon - Mandarin-colored persimmons hang down like strings of pearls on this remarkably cold-hardy new hybrid from Ukraine. V. Derevyanko’s effots have given rise to Gift of Sofiyivka, aka. “Sophie’s Gift” (tongue in cheek of course - “Sophie” is a park, not a person)
Mt Roman Kosh Hybrid Persimmon - A smallish tree, originally from Ukraine, precocious and very productive has no astringency once the fruit is ripe and is a medium to large fruit. It is a complex hybrid of American and Asian Persimmon hybrid. Cold hardy to Zone 6a. Makes male and female flowers on one tree
Prok American Persimmon - Persimmon was a seedling from Cornell University breeding program grown out by John Gordon of Amherst NY. Produces very large fruit, ripens in late August early September, long before frost.
H118 - Early Golden American Persimmon - A Gold Standard. Very Early, Large size fruit, reddish color. Soft when Ripe. A very high quality Fruit Precocious and a consistent producer. 90 Chromosome persimmon. Out of the Late James Claypool Breeding program
Yates/Juhl American Persimmon - Yates is a vigorous tree which generates persimmons by the hundreds. A decade-old tree will regularly produce large crops of almost 2” fruits.
Hardiness: zone 4-9, but likes a long growing season to ripen fully.
Diospyros, fruit of the gods. 30% sugar by weight. Reliable annual cropper once of bearing age. Long lived, resilient, such a gift for the future. Small packets of sugar dropping from the heavens.
Our seedling genetics come from delicious and large fruited named cultivars in various orchards across the country. A delicious persimmon will beget delicious persimmons of similar size, but will have some variability in terms of ripening time. All of the persimmon trees I gather from drop their fruit when ripe, and they are no longer astringent. American persimmons are more or less pest and disease free, but protect them from deer!~
Persimmons are dioecious; around half of seed grown persimmons will be males, and the other half will be fruit producing females. You don’t need males for fruit, but the fruit tend to be larger and I think tastier when pollinated and they will also have seeds! Plant a few if you don’t plan on grafting so you’ll have at least one female tree.
Only potted trees available this year. I had a huge failure on seed this year, so only have a handful of seedlings I’ll need for grafting to next year.
Grafted Varieties:
Dar Sofiyivky (Sophie’s Gift) Hybrid Persimmon - Mandarin-colored persimmons hang down like strings of pearls on this remarkably cold-hardy new hybrid from Ukraine. V. Derevyanko’s effots have given rise to Gift of Sofiyivka, aka. “Sophie’s Gift” (tongue in cheek of course - “Sophie” is a park, not a person)
Mt Roman Kosh Hybrid Persimmon - A smallish tree, originally from Ukraine, precocious and very productive has no astringency once the fruit is ripe and is a medium to large fruit. It is a complex hybrid of American and Asian Persimmon hybrid. Cold hardy to Zone 6a. Makes male and female flowers on one tree
Prok American Persimmon - Persimmon was a seedling from Cornell University breeding program grown out by John Gordon of Amherst NY. Produces very large fruit, ripens in late August early September, long before frost.
H118 - Early Golden American Persimmon - A Gold Standard. Very Early, Large size fruit, reddish color. Soft when Ripe. A very high quality Fruit Precocious and a consistent producer. 90 Chromosome persimmon. Out of the Late James Claypool Breeding program
Yates/Juhl American Persimmon - Yates is a vigorous tree which generates persimmons by the hundreds. A decade-old tree will regularly produce large crops of almost 2” fruits.
