I had a thicket of about 30 trees that I grafted to a bunch of different Asian varieties and a guy sprayed my neighbors pasture with herbicide and killed them all. I’ve got 2 Asians I bought and they turned out not be even be grafted. I’ve got to graft them if I can locate some scions of some Asian varieties or some really good American persimmons. I’m not interested in wild persimmons. They grow all around here. This intense heat cooked my Fuju fruit this year. They’re all brown on top and shriveled up. That’s never happened before. Figs, Asian persimmons and peaches are my favorite fruit to eat. They say some of the named American persimmons are excellent eating. I’ve never tried them. Maybe my pawpaw trees will eventually make some fruit and I’ll get to see what they’re all about before I die of old age. I’ll probably graft some good pawpaw varieties into my trees when they eventually make fruit. Mine should already have good genetics because I grew them from seeds from Jerry Lehmans pawpaws.
These are just strictly for wildlife so I just take graft wood from another native female tree on the property and use it. I thought about introducing some Asian varieties but never have. The native persimmons do well and are drought tolerant. The coons do a good job of spreading the seed around for me as there seems like there is a never ending supply of seedlings. There’s no telling how many we shred over each spring.
@@MattPatterson1411 the mockingbirds and woodpeckers like to eat my Asian persimmons. I’ve found it best to graft them as soon as you see the buds about to open. I use the Texas inlay bark graft. Same as I do on pecans. The native persimmons are much better at drought than Asians. I have both in my yard and I never water the native and the Asian gets watered once a week and the native looks better. The native was a Asian Saijo I bought from Womack nursery and the graft died. I’ve got to graft that one also. It won’t take a Asian scion for some reason. I’ve grafted it for 5 years with many Fuju grafts. They’re 6” long scions and they’ll grow fast and healthy to about 3’ long and die out every time. Just as the original Saijo graft did. I’ve never seen a tree reject grafts like this tree does. I want to try grafting a named American persimmon onto it since it’s an American rootstock. That thicket I grafted had no problems taking Asian scions.
I had a thicket of about 30 trees that I grafted to a bunch of different Asian varieties and a guy sprayed my neighbors pasture with herbicide and killed them all. I’ve got 2 Asians I bought and they turned out not be even be grafted. I’ve got to graft them if I can locate some scions of some Asian varieties or some really good American persimmons. I’m not interested in wild persimmons. They grow all around here. This intense heat cooked my Fuju fruit this year. They’re all brown on top and shriveled up. That’s never happened before. Figs, Asian persimmons and peaches are my favorite fruit to eat. They say some of the named American persimmons are excellent eating. I’ve never tried them. Maybe my pawpaw trees will eventually make some fruit and I’ll get to see what they’re all about before I die of old age. I’ll probably graft some good pawpaw varieties into my trees when they eventually make fruit. Mine should already have good genetics because I grew them from seeds from Jerry Lehmans pawpaws.
These are just strictly for wildlife so I just take graft wood from another native female tree on the property and use it. I thought about introducing some Asian varieties but never have. The native persimmons do well and are drought tolerant. The coons do a good job of spreading the seed around for me as there seems like there is a never ending supply of seedlings. There’s no telling how many we shred over each spring.
@@MattPatterson1411 the mockingbirds and woodpeckers like to eat my Asian persimmons. I’ve found it best to graft them as soon as you see the buds about to open. I use the Texas inlay bark graft. Same as I do on pecans. The native persimmons are much better at drought than Asians. I have both in my yard and I never water the native and the Asian gets watered once a week and the native looks better. The native was a Asian Saijo I bought from Womack nursery and the graft died. I’ve got to graft that one also. It won’t take a Asian scion for some reason. I’ve grafted it for 5 years with many Fuju grafts. They’re 6” long scions and they’ll grow fast and healthy to about 3’ long and die out every time. Just as the original Saijo graft did. I’ve never seen a tree reject grafts like this tree does. I want to try grafting a named American persimmon onto it since it’s an American rootstock. That thicket I grafted had no problems taking Asian scions.