Shogun610
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Did you repot it ?
Princess đź‘‘ Persimmon no. 1
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vp999
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Yes I did back in April I think, with minimal root trimming though.
Shogun610
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My repot was late Feb I got the timing wrong
Shogun610
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Pushing more now .. lol
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Holy crap! Don't do anything to it the remainder of the season. That is an extremely weak tree... but it seems to be perking back up. That's what mine look like in February. Just let it grow the rest of the year and get really leggy. Do NOT prune in the fall or through the winter if you want any blooms in the spring. Then, in the spring once fruit has set, you can trim back any overlong growth that doesn't have fruit. In that way you can constrain growth while still having fruit to enjoy in the winter.
Shogun610
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Yup I planned on just watering and feeding . Don’t worry. It’s still pushing new buds too.
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Shogun610
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Repotted in mid feb , kept in unheated garage at night . And outside during day
Shogun610
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****Weather permitting ***
Shogun610
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Whoops I totally got the date wrong it was late January.
Cmd5235
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For all you persimmon folks- do you also push back collecting with a trunk chop to later in the spring, or have you had success with an earlier collection? I’ve got my eyes on an older persimmon with great bark in an area slated for a housing development next year
I would be surprised if anyone has experience with persimmon collection in this country. Is it a wild Virginia persimmon (I would love to trade if you have a source for material!) or a tree someone has planted? In either case, I would wait until spring when the buds are just about to open up. I have had a lot of success with pruning the branches in spring to match the root mass. NO trunk chops, but pruning back to the lowest buds on the branches. If you do not top prune, the tree will leaf out and collapse because the roots cannot support the leaves.
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TN_Jim
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have had success with very hard cuts in late spring just before bud break; however, have been lucky to always have had a bit of a branch or buds present -never have conducted a straight up hard trunk chop on them tho suspect would work fine on a healthy tree given responses to cuts I’ve observed (back budding etc.).
This is in reference to princess persimmon
This is in reference to princess persimmon
Leo in N E Illinois
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I have never found a "collectable" Diospyros virginiana, they always seem to have very deep root systems that would require digging to the center of the earth. Sometimes one can get lucky.
IF YOU HAVE A ABOVE FREEZING GREENHOUSE, you might get away with collecting and chopping now. But without a well regulated greenhouse, I suggest waiting until the ground thaws in spring to collect.
Shogun610
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Wellp. This persimmon probably won’t make it , got knocked over and all the soil fell out and bits of root from the falling off my cart were everywhere.. didn’t even see it until I got home from work. I repotted it back up again to see if it would survive atleast w a shot … it’s going to be extremely weak so I doubt it makes it. Maybe I’m just not meant to own a persimmon, oh well other stuff to work on. Triaged w sphagnum and bungied the sucker down to the cart. I envy those who have persimmon and can get nice ones so easily… this one was a Julian Abadan’s persimmon and likely one of the last of its size he developed 
vp999
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I think it will be ok since it’s dormant, how long was knocked off the pot for and was it below freezing when it happened ?
Shogun610
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The soil was dislodged and the tree was out of its roots for prob 4 hours max. It was in the garage so above freezing
Shogun610
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I did wire it in the pot , it fell off the cart, it got knocked it over
