Bestseed. If I transplant at the beginning of second year. Do you wait until the following year to graft to let transplants recover from transplant shock?
Could be , I have never tried fall fertilization but late growth spells doom for persimmon trees around here.
Iāve never had fertilizer cause a persimmon tree to re-start growth once itās done for the year. Grapes yes, but not persimmons. I donāt typically use synthetics, though, so theyāre never getting a huge shot of N all at once. Could make a difference.
A follow-up question. I started seeds in tree-pots and 5 gallon buckets. At 7 weeks they started to sprout. Now I am past 20 with more popping up every day (8 weeks out). The seedlings in the tree pots (started a little later) are about the same as the 5 gallon buckets. Any recommendation for an optimum growing temperature? I set up a dome with a space heater. I set it to 80F. After a little trial and error I got a small fan to circulate the heat and it is pretty uniform.
@ansayre ā¦
The two rich tooie seedlingsā¦ that I grew from seedā¦ i planted them out in my orchard Feb 20.
On March 28 the larger seedling looked like this.
Then on April 4ā¦ they both looked like this.
I grafted kassandra on the larger seedling and Nakitas gift on the smaller one that day. Both successful.
When i saw how vigorously they were budding and leafing outā¦ made me feel much better about foing forward with the grafts.
Good luck to you !
Noteā¦ persimmons bud out later than just about everything elseā¦ they were the last things I grafted last spring.
So if you do get them planted in Feb like I didā¦ they may have a good month or more to get established some before they even start bud swell.
I transplanted two callery pear last year mid Janā¦ and grafted to them late Febā¦ and both were very successful.
The callery were already producing shoots and leaves late Febā¦ but my earliest persimmons did not do that until April 4.
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