@Ruben I am in Maryland zone 7a. It is a borderline zone for asian persimmons but they have never showed any winter die-back. About 30 feet from these three trees I have a mature Fuyu that produces about 300 fruits every year. They are in full sun with a lot of space around them. So the conditions are not the problem. The varieties are pretty standard asian persimmons that were sold by Edible Landscaping. I suspect that, in part, it has to do with the pruning I have been doing. I think next year I will do little or no pruning and see what happens,
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@mamuang, I also have a Nikita’s gift and Rosseyanka. Both were planted Spring 2018. I got a handful of flowers last year but they dropped. This year I think it had a few more but once again they dropped. The Rosseyanka this year was covered with flowers but they have all (or nearly all) dropped. I think this was due to the late freeze we had. Good luck with yours this year!
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NG is notorius for dropping fruit when they are young (first 3-4 years). People say, NG also drops fruit when you fertlize it.
I might add that my NG will drop fruit if you look at it too long or a wrong way. 
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I just purchased a Nikita’s gift from EL few weeks ago but the delivery company opened the box pulled the tree and stocked back in the box upside down, it broke about two feet or more. 
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I hope you report to EL about the delvery service.
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I did report it, they told me they ware going to give me a credit for but unfortunately their ware having issues with their computers so I’m hoping they took note of that.
But I start to noticed that a lots of people they been having problems with Nikita’s gift on dropping flowers or fruits so I’m start having a second thoughts about this one! 
In your zone, you have so many better choices. IfI were your I would choose other more productive, non astringent persimmons.
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Like which ones? I asked before and I was told Nikita’s gift was a really good to have.
I would love to find a rojo Brillante but the nurseries that I have contacted they don’t have that one.
What other varieties do you all suggest?
300 hundred fruits! That’s a lots of persimmons! Hope your trees will produce for you the following year but you have a great producer right there!
I am about to have enough of persimmons due to a serious fruit drop issue.
Nikita Gift has dropped most fruit for 4 years in a row.
Morris Burton has dropped fruit for the second year.
JT-02 has dropped a lot.
Here’s the sample.
I know young trees tend to drop fruit. However, no other fruit trees have done it at this amount and frequency. This has happened to me for both potted and in ground trees. Granted I do not have a male tree to help.
@tonyOmahaz5 , @PharmerDrewee , @SMC_zone6 , @aap
What do you do so your trees can hold on to their fruit?
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I have the same issue with 5th-leaf Ichi Ki Kei Jiro. 
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My 5 potted Tam Kam dropped lots of fruits too. That is why I have 5 trees . Each tree hold on to about 20 to 30 fruits from hundreds of flowers per tree. June dropped and wet weather probably the caused.
A male tree can be very helpful. I have little fruit drop this year with my Cheong Pyong tree producing male flowers. Here are the fruit I thinned off 1 tree today, because none are dropping on their own.
I cut them open and they all have seeds developing inside.
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Patience. They drop less and less every year. It’s irritating though. I had thousands of tiny fruit on my trees. Still plenty left, but I wanted it all.
Well, not only fruit dropping, persimmon has another annoying issue of branches dying esp. lower branches.
Half of my NG’s lower branches has died. I know it happens to other fruit trees, too, but it is more obvious with persimmons.
Drew,
Save me some seeds of the good cold hardy crossed.
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I understand what your saying, but think of it this way. Will they get brown rot, PC, or any of the other problems everything else has? When they actually get into production you will be so happy for waiting. Most of my 14 trees dropped all the fruit for several years straight, then they went into a slow build up.
The lower branches you would have cut later anyway.
14 persimmon trees?
Sure, it pollinated at least a dozen other kaki. I’ll have a hybrid that produces male flowers if my grafts take. Then I can make more crosses.
Cheong Pyong pollinated Miss Kim, and Inchon. I think those seedlings have a good chance of being very cold hardy for kaki.
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