Many nurseries grow persimmons from seed. These trees will look good but will take years to start fruiting. Even worse, they will likely cross-pollinate with other varieties, giving you a "Mutt", not a true Fuyu. So their customers can wait up to 9 years to discover they have bad tasting fruit. We take cuttings from a Fuyu mother tree, proven to make great tasting fruit. We graft that on to a hardy rootstock. The result: you get a tree that thinks it's mature and will start producing almost immediately.
You're also ensured that you'll get great tasting fruit just like the mother tree. Our grafting process has been proven for hundreds of years. It's all natural, non-GMO and is used for most commercial persimmon orchards. It is difficult and time consuming to graft persimmons, which is why many nurseries don't do it.
But the difference for you is huge. You won't have to set them out for weeks, waiting for them to ripen. You can eat them right off the tree , like a sweet apple. A mature Persimmon tree can produce over lbs of fruit.
Your Persimmons will typically start to ripen in September and can stay on the tree through the end of the year. Fuyu can then store for several months.
It can tolerate a wide variety of soils and climates. Once established, it is drought tolerant. In fact, it has a long tap root that searches out its own water source. It's self-pollinating , which means it can fruit all by itself. However, it will produce more fruit with a second Fuyu to cross-pollinate with.
