No, it hasn’t. I still have it in a large 25 gallon pot. I would not now suggest ordering from Plant Me Green. Thankfully I kept my tree in quarantine, and brought it in the house to wake it up in late March when we are still freezing, and have feet of snow on the ground. The tree they sent me was infested with persimmon psyllids; I’m thinking their eggs were in the potting soil. I gave the thing a bath in Permethrin, which killed a lot of the top. Last year I saw no evidence of psyllids after another year of quarantine. Being as persimmons just barely survive here, I don’t need any more pests or problems than they already have. Since I’m about 500 miles due north of the closest wild persimmons, and probably several hundred miles north of the closest other grower, I’m hoping to keep this as a no psyllids zone.
Bought two persimmon from them couple years back, but neither have fruited yet. They had a super cheap sale with free shipping. The trees looked nice and the shipping was fast, but I still need to verify the varieties are correct to recommend them.
I beg you a pardon, but what are you suspicious of? That someone can have a different from yours experience?
have Makaewa Jiro young persimmon tree i bought from them, tyty, last year which is about to produce first harvest! The tree is young and is loaded with new green developing fruits. Looking forward to harvest. Want to try and plant Nikitas gift (хурма Никитского Подарок)
it sounds like a sweet treat to eat.
If you said 1 or 2 out of 13 plants you bought from TyTy Nursery were true to label or not dead, maybe, experienced people here would believe you. 13 out of 13 are doing well is not quite believable.
In addition, all other wonderful things, delivery, customer service you were praising TyTy did not match many people here who had experience with this nursery. You sounds like you work for TyTy and are here to try to defend the nursery the best you can.
This is my honest opinion.
The owner of TyTy made an account last year trying to defend it. Didn’t have any regard for the advice we were trying to give him. Setting all the issues asside, their prices are just to high to even consider.
Back to Nikita’s Gift: why does anyone grow it if it drops all its fruit every year? I have a cutting but am debating just throwing it out based on what I read about NG.
Hambone
If the fruit survive to maturity, it tastes very good. My problem with it was because I did have male flowers to cross pollinate NG. Then, after 7-8 years, its top part just did not wake up. It looked dead for 2 months then new sprouts showed up low to the ground but still was above the graft union.
By then, it had enough of this variety so I took it out. If you have persimmons with some male flowers, you should not have a serious drop issue
Now I have Kassandra, JT 02 and a few Americans.
Aha- I need male flowers, which I don’t have. Thank you for that tip. My grafts here of male persimmons have all failed because I topwork them on existing trees whose branches starve the grafts. Years ago I grew a Gailey male (from Wye Research Ctr) that loved my z 7/8 climate, but has literally disappeared from face of the earth.
Does Tam Kam produce some male flowers? Hope so, just ordered some cuttings.
I grafted American persimmons, Early Golden and Garretson, to my American persimmon rootstocks. These two varieties are known to have branches with male flowers (the trees produce mostly female flowers). I hope those grafts will produce some male flowers this year.
@PharmerDrewee and @tonyOmahaz5 probably can tell you if Tam Kam can produce male flowers.
I have grown Tam Kam in pots for 10 years and never see a male flower. Only female flower.
Tony
Chocolate will pollinate NG.
In early December 2023, I bought a potted NG from the Home Depot website. It was a one of those 3 gallon containers that they advertise as being 5 gallon and ~ 4’ tall. It cost $72.98 delivered. It was in surprisingly great condition and is flowering this year. I know from the shipping info that it was shipped up from Florida, probably over 1k miles from my home.
The texture and flavor are a cut above any kaki fruit I’ve purchased in a store. Absolutely worth the heartache.
Do your Nikita’s Gift usually have seeds?
I took out my Chocolate and just grafted one branch of it into my Coffeecake which is separate from my other persimmons. The chocolate tree was stunted and didn’t really make fruit, just lots of male flowers.
Hello all,
It’s been a very unusual surprise to see that this thread has responses two years later. My NG is alive and thriving. I owe a debt of gratitude to the human who recommended me my plant source back in 2023.
I am distrustful of tyty. But that’s besides the point, on the topic of fruit set. Persimmon fruit hold is very complex, it seems like if you plant a male American persimmon within spitting distance of your kaki x virginiana hybrid there is not only considerable pollination but much better fruit hold.
That said, no persimmon is going to hold onto its fruits before the 7/8 year mark. Good luck everyone!
Yes, my NG nowadays always has seeds. In the past it didn’t. And the seeds are viable.
I have multiple pollinators now - Maru, Zenjimaru, and Coffee Cake. So I don’t know what is pollinating it.
BTW chocolate makes delicious fruit.