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BobHawks

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Persimmons
« on: January 27, 2023, 02:35:54 PM »
Hi
Have a fuyu type and it fruits every other year.  Is there a way to make it fruit every year?  possibly by grafting another fuyu scion on to it??
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Bob

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Re: Persimmons
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2023, 03:10:52 PM »
Yes, I agree with you, probably the best is to graft multiple fuyu branches and then don't all the fruits hang ripe on the tree so long. I see similar issues sometimes with the fuyu if you let the fruits hang until they start dropping off the tree. I had a navel orange do the same to me. It had 70 normal size fruits on my large in ground tree (with 2 grafts of navel). I did not pick all the fruits soon enough since I wanted to get a photo of all my fruits ripe at the same time. Now this year it only had a handful of fruits. Here's my tree with all the fruits which I let hang to long. The fuyu tree had about half the number of fruits shown in the photo this year.





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Re: Persimmons
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2023, 04:08:21 PM »
Hi
Have a fuyu type and it fruits every other year.  Is there a way to make it fruit every year?  possibly by grafting another fuyu scion on to it??
Thanks
Bob

I would plant more trees if you have the space

gnappi

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Re: Persimmons
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2023, 09:53:22 PM »
I had the same problem and planted another tree. Sometines one  will bloom at the same time as the other but not often. 
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Re: Persimmons
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2023, 10:20:44 PM »
With that much fruit it's no wonder the tree doesn't bear the next year. The way to solve alternate bearing is to thin the fruit. That also often results in higher quality of the fruit that remains after thinning.

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Re: Persimmons
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2023, 05:24:28 AM »
With that much fruit it's no wonder the tree doesn't bear the next year. The way to solve alternate bearing is to thin the fruit. That also often results in higher quality of the fruit that remains after thinning.

I was just going to say the same, alternate fruiting is what happens when a tree has a load of fruit one year, and none or a small quantity the next. Just thin the fruit as fruitnut suggested, that will brake the cicle.