Dar Sofiyivky hybrid persimmon for grocery stores and families growing food:
The winter of 2005-2006 at Kiev Ukraine where Dar Sofiyivky was created and planted there as well as 2011-2012, the plant was not damaged at -22 F nor -28 F.
http://mchr.sofievka.org/article/view/219810
Results. Advantages of D virginiana L. in hybridization with D. kaki Thunb. to increase the persimmon adaptability to unfavorable wintering factors have been confirmed in the extreme temperature conditions of the winters of 2005–2006 and 2011–2012. In the hybrid progeny from free pollination of the ‘Kolhospnytsia’ cultivar with the American persimmon D. virginiana in the genealogy, a new cultivar ‘Dar Sofiyivky’ has been selected.
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'Dar Sofiyivky is grown from the south to the north of all of Ukraine. There’s a Facebook group dedicated to growing ‘Dar Sofiyivky’ all thruought Ukraine, I’ve been told.
I have scions right now that I will graft and I’ve passed them around to others, as-well.
Show Buzz or others in the ilk. This 3-month storage capability changes it all and it’s literally time to put rootstocks/seeds in the ground to establish orchards across the continent.
‘Dar Sofiyivky’ is highly parthenocarpic and produces only female flowers. You grow this outside the range, you always have seedless fruit.