Grow Persimmon Trees!

Persimmon fruit tastes like candy. And Persimmon fruit is HIGHLY nutritious. Kids will LOVE it. We grow & eat varieties Persimmon YOU will enjoy. Check out our HEPPY™ garden of six Persimmon trees. We show U how they developed from 2016-2021 in ONE vid!.

Learn what our varieties look like! Persimmon trees can be tall or short, and self-fertile or not. Fruit size and shape varies. Some are non-astringent and some varieties are astringent. There’s also seedless fruit!

Grow a Persimmon tree. EMPOWER yourself with a tree that needs LITTLE care, tolerates heat and cold (zone 4), will fit any garden, and produces nutritious fruit that tastes like candy.


00:00 – bla bla bla intro
00:56 – Wase Fuyu "Matsumoto"
03:01 – Nikitas Gift
04:27 – Rosseyanka
06:06 – why we FAVOR Asian characteristics
06:41 – sucker Persimmon plants
08:46 – Fuyu Persimmon
10:21 – Texas (Diospyros texana)
11:37 – Texas Persimmon germination
12:36 – Kasandra
14:59 – EXCELLENT summary of variety-traits to consider
18:32 – out takes ;)

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Wase Fuyu "Matsumoto", Asian Persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 6-9, to 10-12 feet tall.
Fruit: non-astringent, large round fruit, and with seeds. High sugar content.

Nikitas Gift, Hybrid Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana x kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 5-9, to 10-12 feet tall.
Fruit: astringent (pick when soft), round fruit, and with seeds.

Rosseyanka, Hybrid Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana x kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 5-8, to 15-25+ feet tall.
Fruit: astringent, relatively small and round fruit. We’ve read that she’s WITHOUT seeds!

Fuyu persimmon, Asian Persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 8-10, to 15-25+ feet tall.
Fruit: non-astringent, relatively small and round fruit.

Texas Persimmon, UNIQUELY American (Diospyros texana)
Grow in zones 7-9, and produces very small round fruit.
At this time we do not know if it's self-fertile, how tall she grows, or astringency and, if the fruit is without seeds.

Kasandra, Hybrid Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana x kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 5b-9.
At this time we do not know if it's self-fertile, how tall she grows, or astringency and, if the fruit is without seeds.


PERSIMMON TREE
the Persimmon tree is native to North America, and grows very well in zone 7. the Persimmon tree is a forgiving, versatile and low maintenance fruit tree. it grows in Zone 4 to 9 (NOT all persimmon varieties grow in chilly-willy, zone 4). its long taproot makes it good for erosion control. some varieties are more visually appealing – the Nakitas Gift is a short stocky tree with beautiful shinny dark green leaves. on the other hand, our Wase Fuyu (Matsumoto) Persimmon grows … kind of funky and small and gangly but produced about 60 blooms at only 3-4 years old (we picked-off all but 5 blooms).

the fruit’s nutritional value is OUTSTANDING. according to one NIH article: "Persimmon is naturally bestowed with bioactive molecules including proanthocyanidins, flavonoids, tannins, phenolic, carotenoids, dietary fiber, and etc. Persimmon leaves and fruit have imperative significance for coronary health because of hypocholesterolemic, anti-atherosclerosis and antioxidant perspectives...."

there are many varieties of Persimmon trees. American native and American cultivars (Diospyros virginiana); Asian cultivars (Diospyros kaki) and hybrid crosses between the American and Asian cultivars (Diospyros virginiana x kaki). hybrids allow us to select the Persimmon tree with the best range of traits (flavor, fruit size, tree size, astringency [astringent or non- astringent], seedless, self-fertile, etc.).

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in 2017 I started planting a food forest on 2 acres. The property was abandoned. We’re located only 10 miles south of the US Capitol but are surrounded by several hundred acres of forest and very few homes. Our urban garden design, landscape architecture and permaculture techniques incorporate fruiting trees, fruiting shrubs, edible ground cover, edible flowers, and herbs and medicinal plants that will provide food for generations. It’s a long and slow ‘haul’ as we adapt, learn new things, and are enjoying the process.

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