Unfortunately Hachiya won’t do well in my zone 6b. 
Let me try again. JT-02 is better than Hachiya to this person. Enough where he grafted 22 of them.
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Update for all. My Kassandra died to the ground and I now have a 2 year old American persimmon tree, which was the rootstock. I’m going to give it another 1-2 years of growth and then will graft either hybrid or American persimmon varieties onto it.
Lesson: Plant persimmons in the Spring.
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I had the same experience in eastern KS. But most of the hybrids planted in March have done well.
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I ordered last week from Madison Citrus and they shipped today. In December to 6a. Was not expecting that. They had a banner on their website which said spring shipping, but perhaps I have made a basic and naive mistake because I am a silly person.
Any tips on how to keep these alive until April planting? I am considering the unheated attic.
I’m in 7B and have no problem planting persimmons in the fall. In your zone it might be okay, but depending on how well it is hardened off and how abrupt the change to really deep cold would be, it is hard to say for sure. Of course it depends on the variety as well.
Besides my in-ground trees, I have a bunch of persimmons in pots and some new grafts in tree pots. I put them in my detached, very drafty garage and they come through fine. I also put some in the crawl space and they do well, but it warms up a bit faster and I have more of a challenge with them waking up early. Long way of saying I think your attic might be fine, but you might want to keep a min/max thermometer in their for a while (or a remote sensor) to monitor it. It actually might get too hot from the sun on the roof, so what would be the thing I’d be most concerned about.
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Dave’s Candy is very vigorous but starts bearing fruit when young, so maybe I’ll be able to keep mine compact with smart pruning. I will remove the most vigorous annual shoots and leave the small wood where most fruit forms, following that with summer pruning of same vigorous shoots. It is at least twice as vigorous as the Great Wall growing next to it. This year Great Wall was the superior pers, but last year Dave’s Candy ripened properly and was very good. Small but a very good astringent pers. Great Wall bore Fuyu type fruit this year that I ate firm.
Received the trees this evening. A week on the UPS truck, but the root balls were not frozen so I’ll count myself lucky. Buds look good.
I stuck a probe into the roots and strung it through the attic door. Reading 38 degrees currently. I’ll have to watch these closely throughout the winter.
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Glad they arrived looking good. Hopefully they’ll stay nice and dormant for you until Spring.
Not an ideal situation, but worst case scenario is that you make it a houseplant until spring. I actually did that successfully a couple of times to push the growth of seedlings before.