Help and Suggestions for my Persimmon Tree

[@apotheosis4757]

It looks healthy to me. Just needs maybe another yr. and its fruits will drop less and successfully produce fruits to ripen in fall. With good pruning. When my tree was 5yrs, same thing happened. But the next year, it was loaded with healthy big fruits. Like your informative mushroom video logs and persimmon tree 🙂.

[@vanniyo8988]

You just gotta prune it. Maybe add support for the fruits, and if you have squirrel 🐿️ eating then you probably want to put up netting. Also don't cover up the base of the tree with too much soil. You can use mulch for the base but not to heavily.

[@SoCalKevin]

The problem is the tree has a very weak structure and needs to be pruned more often. Persimmon wood is very brittle and branches will break very easy under the weight of the fruit. Your tree looks healthy overall, but those long skinny branches aren't going to be able to support much fruit. The tree naturally goes through 2...sometimes 3 fruit drops in a year, because it knows it has weak wood. You need to focus on building that structure and then the fruit will come. Best time for heavy pruning would be early spring and late fall. Flowering time is just about over so your tree will probably not flower again until next spring, so you should prune all the growth past the flowers on every branch. That will keep the branches from growing longer, while causing them to grow thicker and put out side branches. Any branches that don't have flowers should be pruned down to about 1ft. In late fall, you should prune that tree heavy. Very very heavy, like a good 50% or more so that all branches are like 1-2ft stubs. In the spring the tree will explode with growth and everything will grow back, except your main structure will be much thicker. Keep pruning throughout the season when a branch gets too lanky. Every time you cut the tip off of a branch, the rest of the branch grows thicker. You are not losing energy, you are redirecting it.

[@BGnROutdoors]

Thanks for the advice. I did get a few that fell off this season but majority of them are growing bigger than ever. Hopefully they don't start to drop. I will prune the tree in the fall for first time.

[@turgutbelen6374]

Thanks Kevin, I had the same problem with my 4 year old tree. I kept looking at it while day by day as most of the flowers disappeared. Later I thought that, the tree knows what it can carry. I will prune it for the first time, as you suggested. My question is: Fruits are as big as cherry tomatos right now... can it be pruned at this stage or should I wait the Fall?

[@ankurschoolandcollege7352]

In which country is this garden?

[@MariusDevRo]

Prune it and fertilize it.