Unsolicited pictures of my P.P.

[NaoTK]

I finally have a warm place with a backdrop to wire and photograph trees, so I hope to share the progress of my princess persimmons here.

This tree is very late ripening. Still some green in December. Next year will be ridiculous for fruit. I will put it in a blue or green pot eventually.


I am constantly pruning this semi-cascade one so it never gets to fruit, but they are smallish orange. The current pot is oversize to get faster growth. I have a green pot it will go in eventually.

Same cascade tree in 2019


This is a non-traditional wild tree, like a literati dragon


I am a sucker for forests and group plantings and I have too many to keep up. They require a lot of time to wire. You want all the trees to have the same genetics so they fruit the same.

No fruit on this one this year because it was repotted, but it usually a stunner.


I like the straightness of this one. I lost two trees due to repotting in spring and I wont do that again. But the roots are still alive and both dead trees have new trees coming up.


This one is massive, over 3 feet tall with about 25 trees


Work in progress. This one is neat because it is a clump and joined at the base and the fruit are a nice red. Will be nice one day


More to come! I will keep adding here as I wire and style this winter and beyond!

 

[Jphipps]

Risky click.

 

[Ruddigger]

Cool trees, thanks for showing off your PP.

 

[Shogun610]

Nice !! I try not to touch my P.P too much to risk scarring but seeing you use aluminum without that whatever paper people use I may do some tweaking.
Hopefully my P.P. Fruits this year I was alittle rough on the poor guy

 

[NaoTK]

Nice !! I try not to touch my P.P too much to risk scarring but seeing you use aluminum without that whatever paper people use I may do some tweaking.
Hopefully my P.P. Fruits this year I was alittle rough on the poor guy

It is indeed risky to leave your P.P unprotected, just check for biting often in Spring. I uncoil a little bit and check for blackness. You can get away with a little bite, the tree will lighten over time. I only go bareback if the bend is light. Usually by June it will come off. Then another round goes on in summer and off again in fall.

 

[vp999]

Time to ship those root cuttings buddy lol.

 

[NaoTK]

Time to ship those root cuttings buddy lol.

Thanks for reminding me. I need to clear house

 

[vp999]

Thanks for reminding me. I need to clear house

Hell yeah ......lol

 

[circledisk]

It's a shame they'll never be big enough to eat. I LOVE persimmon

 

[Ruddigger]

It's a shame they'll never be big enough to eat. I LOVE persimmon

Shaming a man on the size of his P.P. What a cruel world.

 

[czaczaja]

I had no idea peppers grew wooden stems

 

[Dabbler]

You may want to go to the doc, your P.P. looks a bit twiggy

 

[Jim Horton]

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"I like the straightness of this one. I lost two trees due to repotting in spring and I wont do that again. But the roots are still alive and both dead trees have new ......" When is the correct time to repot?

 

[NaoTK]

I'm starting to get large batches of fruit on some of my trees this year. This forest may get recomposed next year from a forest into more of a radially symmetric clump.




...that's a little crow made by the Mrs.

 

[Hartinez]

I'm starting to get large batches of fruit on some of my trees this year. This forest may get recomposed next year from a forest into more of a radially symmetric clump.

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...that's a little crow made by the Mrs.
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Hey this is really nice Nao. Love it

 

[badatusernames]

Gorgeous trees

There’s a trick to getting them to fruit, right? I seem to recall you saying they drop fruit if fertilized?

I got some flowers but have been focused on growth, so fertilize heavily - they dropped before setting anything

I love the crow!

 

[Michael P]

What type of climate will these thrive in? My winters are mild with about 30 freezes a year but occasional drops into the teens or even single digits. Summer is hell's front porch.

 

[NaoTK]

Gorgeous trees

There’s a trick to getting them to fruit, right? I seem to recall you saying they drop fruit if fertilized?

I got some flowers but have been focused on growth, so fertilize heavily - they dropped before setting anything

I love the crow!

They flower best when you give them lots of high nitrogen fertilizer like Miracle Gro. I have gotten fruit from seed in 4 years with miracle gro.
To reduce fruit drop in June the flowers should be pollinated. Not always the case but its better with pollination.

I should add there is extreme genetic diversity. some individual plants fruit prolifically and others take forever to coax into fruiting.

What type of climate will these thrive in? My winters are mild with about 30 freezes a year but occasional drops into the teens or even single digits. Summer is hell's front porch.

They should do really well in Texas.

 

[Michael P]

Thanks!

 

[badatusernames]

They flower best when you give them lots of high nitrogen fertilizer like Miracle Gro. I have gotten fruit from seed in 4 years with miracle gro.
To reduce fruit drop in June the flowers should be pollinated. Not always the case but its better with pollination.

I should add there is extreme genetic diversity. some individual plants fruit prolifically and others take forever to coax into fruiting.

They should do really well in Texas.

Got it! For some reason I thought I saw elsewhere that restricting fertilizer was the way to go - will remember this when I’m ready to let mine fruit