Do you ever pinch off any fruit to help prevent a complete drop of fruit? I've also been experimenting and this year I removed all new growth growing straight up, inward or rubbing on another branch. I also tried removing some of the end of new growth in hopes to thicken branches.
Why do you suppose that this tree, this year, is not bearing fruits at all? Summer pruning seems kind of late in the season to be pruning as flowers are already turning into fruits by June/July. Just wondering.
Philyy area is 7b. Yes Fuyu survive the winter. Philly park commission even encourages persimmon trees. Good hardier variety in colder climates is Nikita's gift. I'm going to plant this fall since I have a Fuyu already.
I inherited a house with a nice "park like" yard. I have been told that several of the trees are persimmons... but they are rather large and old... Is there anything I can do to get them to fruit? Do they need specific nutrients?
I think mine took 3 years to bear fruit (ie it didn’t produce fruit until the 4th year. The first year it fruited, they were small and I didn’t get many. The year after that, I got a fair amount, but they were still small. The third year it fruited, they got noticeably bigger, but it produced less fruit than previous years. The following years going forward (year 6 or 7 onward), the persimmons that it produces are HUGE, completely filling my palm (about 3.75” in diameter ). I’ve been getting so many Fuyu persimmons for the past few years that I have to make persimmon pies, jams, and other recipes that contain persimmons just so they don’t go to waste. They are so expensive to buy in my local supermarkets that I feel like I’m cheating myself by not selling some of them. But don’t worry; you are right on the cusp of the turning point, and your tree will be producing persimmons before you know it.
@@1mataleo1 I actually got some last fall. I didn’t see any blooms in the spring so I thought I wasn’t getting any. I think I got around 20 smallish ones but they were perfect and I was thrilled. I can’t wait to see how many I get this year.
If that’s the case, over they next few years you will probably be surprised with how many you get. The first year mine produced viable fruit, the damn squirrels ate almost all of them when I was waiting for them to ripen. Now I get so many that it doesn’t even matter. I pruned mine this winter because it it was getting so tall that it was a bitch to get to some of the fruit. I can’t wait; last years crop was amazing. Good luck!
@@1mataleo1 thank you 😊 I did cover the few I got with gossamer bags. My mother in law had a huge tree and every year the squirrels would strip her tree bare in one day. I swear they had it marked on their calendar. We picked a lot of the fruit way before ripe to get any. Can’t wait until I have enough to not worry about what the squirrels take.
