White Oak
5 year old buck +
The tree is gone , had a guy cut it up and take it away....It was a mess just laying in the front yard. While it was a reliable prolific producer I'm also going to say Persimmons are a very messy tree for your yard , every little wind storm it would drop twigs and branches that I had to clean up before mowing ,...Not just this tree every Persimmon here drops a lot of twigs and branches . My remaining Persimmon trees are on field edges and in the woods , so no worries about twigs and sticks dropping there as much.I'm in central VA myself and have native persimmons growing. My best bang for the buck for fruit trees are persimmon. I find a tree 1" to 3" in diameter that does not produce well. It may be a female that just is not prolific or it may be a male tree that will never produce. I cut them down and bark graft them with scions from prolific trees and trees with different drop times. A bark grafted persimmon in that size range will produce the first fruit in the 3rd leaf after grafting.
If I were you, I would try to save the genetics of that tree if it is a reliable prolific producer. It is the wrong time of year to collect scions. I would take root cuttings if I were you and see if I could get some clones growing. You don't have to wait for them to mature. Once they are large enough to take scions, you can bark graft the scions to other native trees in the 1" to 3" diameter range.
Thanks,
Jack
I have about 13 crabs combined from Blue Hill and Whitetail crabs in my hunting "tree plot" , the earliest planted in 2020 so time will tell on drop times and if they are a draw during hunting season. I also have a couple Native Nursery Wild Deer pears, Dr Deer peras , Keiffer and a moonglow .
My Whitetail Crabs are producing some crabs..., Terry the owner said it takes about 5 years for them to really produce....so I'm hoping in 2 years they will be a substitute / draw for the missing persimmon