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(Diospyros virginiana × Diospyros kaki)
An exciting newer selection developed by David Lavergne, and with enough cold hardiness to make it worth trying here! Cliff England rhymes off Kasandra's pedigree 'as a hybrid of 'Great Wall' crossed by an F2 male of Rosseyanka hybrid, backcrossed to Diospyros virginiana'. Don't worry if that gets too deep. Find a sheltered spot to try a tree. The fruit is reported to reach 7cm (2.75") in diameter with a Brix test of 21 (it obviously needs lots of sun for that!) With Diospyros kaki parentage you also have less fruit astringency than the straight Americans and larger, glossy green leaves.
SELF-FERTILE | ZONE 5/6 | HARVEST: MID-LATE OCT.
Plant your persimmon trees in a well-drained, sunny location, but don’t let them dry out. After you have successfully started them, persimmons are extremely easy to grow and care for.
Seedlings may eventually reach a mature height of 15m (50') while grafted varieties usually remain considerably smaller, usually only 5-9m (16-30').
NOTE ON DELAYED LEAFING: Be patient with Persimmons. They are usually the last to break dormancy. Watering them while dormant will not help, it can even hurt the roots, if overdone. They simply need lots of heat to wake up, so in a cool spring it could take a month or even longer yet.
In most cases, we recommend planting bareroot fruit trees at their permanent site as soon as you get them. However, the trees in this section of the catalogue (Pawpaws, Persimmons and Jujubes) will often benefit from spending a few more years in a pot. Since these species do not take as well to bareroot handling, we receive them as very small trees in pots. We suggest you repot them in a 2 or 3 gallon container and grow them for several seasons. Pawpaws in particular, will appreciate this, as the tender young trees will prosper much more if you can keep them out of direct sunlight. This way you also have the option of overwintering them in your garage until they are bigger and stronger.
See Page 80 for 3 gallon Root Trapper® Containers.