Drove 100 miles one way from Sugar Land to Huntsville to get this persimmon budwood today. Usually I don’t cut it in January but with all the hot weather we have been having buds are already swelling. Tried to stick with astringent types but Ed wanted a few non astrintgents and one virginiana as well. Most of the trees were 10 years old. Many of these varieties have no description online! Found only the name of some on a paper from U of California.
chienting pca
eureka pca
akoumanzaki pcna
giant fuyu pcna
amagaki pvna
hyakami pvna
early golden virginia
datil(Cliff England)
DD 1033
ichida
lycopersicon
mikatami gosho
mishirasu
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Found someone else who will send me kuro gaki, vaniglia, muscat, miss kim. Kuro gaki is especially interesting since it is a black skinned fruit. The non astringents will go to friends as I don’t grow them. The critters around here start eating them when they are green.
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That’s probably ‘Ichiban’, number one. And ‘Eureka’
was one of the hardier ones, I remember that from an old Pomona. There were about 3 of those. I successfully grafted Great Wall and almost certainly had Eureka in my hand at the time, but in the terrible drought in the late 80’s it was hard to get takes. I talked to the minister who was living in the house in the early 90’s, he had taken some AMAZING huge persimmons to church to show everyone, so it had survived the big freeze Christmas of 89.
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Got in the second batch of bud wood today, lucky now that New Jersey is in a snow storm now with the sender blocked in her own house by 2 feet of snow!
Old thread, but I just harvested some American Persimmon rootstock in the fall and wondering if you have any scionwood that I could get ahold of? I’m near the heights but willing to drive, or if you could share the place in Huntsville that you got the graftwood from I’d be grateful.
Also, any advice as for what variety takes best in Houston, I’m very new to this. There is a great Tamopan tree around the corner from me that I’ll get a few cuttings from, but was hoping to get 3-4 varieties (or try to, at least.)
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I will have some available. What are you interested in—Asian, astringent, non astringent? You may not have access to some areas of the forum. I am in Athens Tx. I will PM you also to see if you are able to receive it.
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Tamopan not the best. Not the time to collect scions or graft. I can give you lots of scions of many varieties. Collecting time is February.
Thanks for the reply!
The Tamopan is very vigorous with little maintenance (I know because that house has been getting “remodeled” for a long time now) but wow it was so astringent! I collected about 15 fruit, tried to leave some in the freezer and some with bananas to ripen, generally it worked l, and when it did they were leagues better than anything from the grocery store.
I very much appreciate the offer, I might see if I can work with MrTexas at first though as he is only 20 min away from me!
As far as what I am looking for, honestly I’m just starting out on the journey and have no basis for preferences… As for what I can say, I have 5 American Persimmon rootstocks that I harvested last fall, all about finger thickness. I guess I would like to try a variety, maybe 2 Asian non-astringent, 1 Asian astringent, 2 American or hybrid (I heard there are some interesting cultivars from Russia/Ukraine, I dunno if either of you have those? Nikita’s gift and Rosseyanka?)
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I had a young Rossy that crashed and burned for unknown reason. I think the only other hybrid I have is JT-02 and it’s very small yet.
MrTexas should be able to set you up with a lot of good ones!! 
Persimmon grafting time is April or May. I have astringent, no non-astringen or american/hybrid.
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