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How not to propagate princess persimmon

November 6, 2018 by Jonas Dupuich

After a long wait, I confirmed this year that my oldest princess persimmon can bear fruit.

Young princess persimmon – with fruit!

Growing princess persimmon from seed is an inefficient approach as there’s no way to determine whether a seed will produce a male or female plant. As most enthusiasts grow princess persimmon for the fruit, raising a tree for five, six, seven, or more years before learning whether or not it will fruit can be a disheartening process.

The most efficient way to propagate princess persimmon is by root cutting – the method I used to create the above tree. As soon as a fruiting tree produces pencil-sized roots, these can be removed to create new plants.

Princess persimmon fruit

As it happens, most of the young princess persimmons in my garden started from seeds, not cuttings. At the time, I didn’t have access at the time to fruiting trees from which I could make root cuttings. Am hoping I’ll start seeing signs one way or the other over the next several years.

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  1. Henry Lin says

    November 9, 2018 at 7:34 am

    If you graft a fruiting tree to non-fruiting tree, will it produce fruit? Just a thought.

    • Jonas Dupuich says

      November 9, 2018 at 9:17 am

      Good question Henry. In general, yes, grafting a scion from a fruiting tree will yield fruit on the host. I haven’t grafted princess persimmon but I’d expect it to work.

  2. AHMAD says

    November 11, 2018 at 3:38 am

    DO YPU HAVE ANY FRUTING P.PERSSIMON FOR SALE

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