420Stainless wrote: ↑Sat May 17, 2025 10:15 pm Was looking into buying small persimmon trees last night, but learned that it is apparently better to plant bare root trees during dormancy, so I set a calendar reminder to order some trees next January. I think I'm going to lean into the astringent Asian varieties and start with Giombo and Saijo. Still have a lot of time to ponder on it though. Kind of a strange feeling wanting to do something knowing that I probably won't see fruit until close to 2030 if I do things correctly and the weather cooperates.

I just planted a bareroot one myself, though I don't really know anything about growing persimmon. I had to sadly dug up a plum tree I planted 5yrs ago because there is a limit of space in the backyard, it wasn't producing fruits and seem to be full of male flowers.

Planted near it a bareroot "jiro" persimmon. It was one of the few variety I saw that rated for zone 6. Wasn't cheap, $50+$20 shipping for a 2.5ft tall grafted bareroot, but I think I'm satisfied as new leaves are already starting to come out of the buds just a week after planting. I filled the hole with the existing clay top soil and old container medium that was a mix of potting mix and compost, no fertilizer as instructed.

A popular youtuber highly recommended Giombo and I like the shape of the fruit, unfortunately it's not rated for my zone.

maxjohnson wrote: ↑Sat May 17, 2025 11:26 pm
I just planted a bareroot one myself

I think it will probably do well for you in Ohio to have planted it now. Our summers are so brutal here that the recommendation was to plant bareroot in the late winter, or potted trees in the fall. However, I'm reluctant to plant potted ones in the fall because each of the past two Decembers we've actually seen the temp. drop to zero. While that is unlikely to happen again any time soon in Mississippi, I'd rather wait a couple more months.

My Jiro tree is now covered in tiny developing fruits that I will never get to eat. When I bought & planted it a few years ago I didn't anticipate the critters it would attract. Squirrels, birds, et all. They eat every single fruit

Did you know persimmons are closely related to ebony?

Shule wrote: ↑Mon Jun 02, 2025 1:33 pm Did you know persimmons are closely related to ebony?

Yes I read that some place.