Prok American Persimmon Tree

I've had the same problem with my Yates American Persimmon. It's a beautiful tree, great shape and has bloomed now for over 3 seasons but no fruit. The blooms seem very small. I'm afraid that it's not actually a Yates and is a male variety of another American Persimmon. I've been trying to look up photos of the blooms of the Yates but haven't had much luck in my searching. I just find photos of the fruits and other variety's blooms.

Prok will be astringent if it is not allowed to fully ripen. You cannot judge ripeness by the skin color, since the fruit will be fully orange before it is ripe. When ripe, Prok persimmon fruit should be completely soft, with an almost jelly-like texture inside when it is sweet enough to eat. A good sign of ripeness is when the fruit starts dropping from the tree. Just gather and enjoy!

Not the one in my yard. I had to put a welded wire fence around mine.

Definitely go with prok. Its a larger persimmon with better quality fruit than yates.

Although the staff answered, I would add that it is almost definitely a seedling American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana), since there are no clonal or improved rootstocks for persimmons. Asian persimmons for the west coast are often grafted to Lotus persimmon (Diospyros lotus) rootstocks, but they aren't nearly as hardy as native American persimmons so they should never be used for our native persimmons which can be hardy to zone 5 or even 4. Because your rootstock is sprouting, it will just be a native persimmon seedling now growing which may be either male (75% of the time) or female (25%) tree. If it is male you won't get any fruit and if it is female you probably will only get fruit if there is a male nearby to polinate it since most wild persimmons don't hold fruit without pollination.

Persimmons are grafted with an American seedling which is unknown as they are picked from a bin.

There should be no transplant shock as we recommend acclimation at home before planting. These are also grown in hot,humid green houses as well so they are used to the warm summer heat.

Both Prok and Yates, sold here, produce female flowers and only female flowers. Although people keep saying they self-pollinate, that is incorrect. They just happen to be varieties that will hold and mature fruit without pollination, which is technically known as parthenocarpic. If you keep your trees and plant one of these, these will be pollinated by your male trees and will have seeds.

The secret to keeping fruit trees to a height that is convenient for you is by pruning. Think of a height you want to keep it at and don't let it go beyond that goal, if it does, you prune it off. You can keep fruit trees to any desired height whether it is a semi-dwarf or standard size tree by size management.

Even if you just plant one you may have seeds if there are any native male persimmons growing in the area. Bees love persimmon pollen and will often range over a wide area between trees when they are in flower. If you aren't in an area where there are native persimmons you won't have seeds, even if you plant more than one of these, since unlike the answer above states, they don't actually cross-pollinate since these are all cultivated types that only have female flowers. These varieties don't require pollination to set fruit.