Great to see a backyard success with Persimmon. My in ground Fuyu plant in Coral Springs has grown a mere 6 inches in 2 years and I was thinking of taking it out. After seeing your video I have decide to give it another year before deciding. Thanks for the video.
I've had a Fuyu in my back yard in Cape Coral for about 3 years. Never did much growing or fruiting. This year though it is a different story. Growth like crazy this Spring and it has over 100 blooms on it.
The only persimmons I've ever tasted were astringent the way I remember maybe they weren't ripe enough , they didn't look exatly like yours and I think they were smaller.
When I lived in Colorado there was market chain named H-mart that sold persimmons for one dollar per pound, It worked out to about three persimmons per pound. I used to buy up to three hundred persimmons every season. Now I am in southwest Florida and I have to pay $1.50 for each persimmon. I am trying to grow persimmons here but they keep dying back to under the graft. Next spring I am going to try grafting on them. Anyway, where can I get the Triumph variety.
Looks like you lost the Triumph and now you have healthy Diospyros Virginiana. Never let the suckers develop or they kill the scion. Take care of them and graft the scions from the S. Florida you have doing beautifully. Get a mature Triumph soon as you can. The Triumph is excellent and maybe even the same as the S. Florida one. Do some research on a variety called Hudson. Good video. Thumbs up.
@@Pepesplants oh I thought you meant the ones in the ground. Yes those two are black sapote seedlings with Triumph persimmon grafts. One graft died and one is okay
Interesting trees and I'd like to taste a persimmon to see what they taste like. Looks like the trees take up too much valuable growing space for yielding such small amounts of fruit, so I don't think I'd grow them for that reason.
