I should have at least a dozen good scions this winter. I’ll post availability sometime in January.
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Keep it in an unheated garage and water the pot every few weeks to keep the root moist.Plant it next Spring after the last day of frost. It should be fine.
Tony
Thanks @tonyOmahaz5 for the encouragement! Yeah, that’s what I am thinking to do (or perhaps keep it in the pot for the next growing season and plant it next Fall if it does OK) but want to graft another one to avoid the risk of losing a year – so I have more time to enjoy it (I am approaching the age when one thinks about these things 
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@Fusion_power, sounds good, I’ll keep an eye for your announcement. But if I could jump on your list already, I’d appreciate it – since everyone wants it!
In the meantime give it some Urea Nitrogen 46-0-0. It will grow for you another foot by the fall. That’s how I sized up all my hybrids.
Tony.
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Thanks for the tip, will definitely try.
@AvidSlacker YMMV. I find that once a persimmon decides to quit growing for the season, there’s not really much you can do to get it growing again. However, a high-Nitrogen fall fertilization will give you much greater ROI than an equivalent spring fertilization. A tree’s first flush of growth is driven much more by stored nutrients from the prior year than by nutrients it’s currently absorbing from the ground.
I’d also like to add that 7" of growth is not too shabby, especially if you grafted to a brand-new bare root rootstock. When I graft to new bare root rootstocks that haven’t had a season to size up, I find I average 6-8" of new growth. Rootstocks that have had a year to size up and gotten fall fertilizer will be more like 1-3’
About how much urea do you add?
With your small pot about 20 little white granules.
Tony, this “A” is not the poster. I have several root sprouts that were eaten by deer. So would I be better off to mow them all the way down and let them regrow next year or give them urea. If so how Much?
Thanks alan
If the deer only eaten the leaves and not the trunk then they will grow some new leaves soon. I would build a chicken wire fence around them. A half of a tease spoon and water it well until all dissolve now and one more time in 2 weeks and that’s it. You don’t too much growth into the winter and the new growth doesn’t have enough time to harden up.
No they ate the 3’ sprouts to the ground. My property is in the red hook on this map | U.S. Drought Monitor
Flag the site so you know where they are at ground level and let them re sprout for next year. I would still build a wire cage to protect each one of them from the deer.
Tony
I agree. For root sprouts over 4 ft I’ve started ( a little late to the party) . 5 ft remesh in 4 ft diameter circles.
And those under I’ve been doing this
Wish I had started doing this before they wiped out the first 50 root sprouts.
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A month apart, two different trees in two different locations… the only persimmon cultivar these guys targeted. They did appear to be the same species in different stages of growth. One had quite a bit of defoliation (not pictured) before I caught it, the other I noticed very quickly and was able to destroy them before any damage was done beyond one leaf. The ways of insects are beyond me as I have at least a dozen other persimmon choices, but they only went after DS.
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I came back a couple of weeks later and the deer had reached down and eaten this root sprout to the ground. Lesson learned is to zip tie the top closed.
Those are red humped caterpillars, and they primarily go for persimmon here too. Interesting how attracted they are tovthem given that persimmon is not endemic and still very uncommonly grown anywhere in the area. They can easily defoliate a whole 6’ tree in pretty short order, but theyre easy to deal with if you check your trees in early August when they hatch out. They cluster together at the tip of a branch, and so the whole works can be easily snipped off. I don’t bother with them on bigger established trees as they don’t seem to have much impact.
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How is your Dar Sofiyivky tree this year? Did it have more fruit this year? @hobilus . Mine are one their first leaf so no flowers yet
Tony
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Unfortunately, Tony Ive been unable to visit or care for my trees for the last 3 1/2 months due to some troubling personal circumstances. Im hoping to sort them out soon, but Ive basically lost a growing season and all of my plantings have been untended since May.
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