I second the recommendation for "Li" jujube. Asian pears are not considered low maintenance here because of fireblight, otherwise I'd have them on my landscaping plan. For taste and texture, "Korean Giant" is my favorite asian. "Housi" and "Shinko" are more popular, although "Housi" is more susceptible to fire flight. "Korean Giant" has BIG fruit, and ripens very late (mid to late Sept here), so you might want to be sure that'll work in your area. KG is also a good pollenizer for other varieties -- not all variety combinations make good pairs for pollenation.

Most that I use as rootstocks are 2-3 years old - but I don't 'push' with any fertilization. Suppose you might be able to get some up to decent caliper if you fed 'em a little. I did graft some 1-yr container grown ones earlier this month - but the scionwood was tiny little stuff. I do a simple bark graft - but have done simple whip and whip and tongue - all with good success. Persimmons are really no more difficult or finicky to graft than pomefruits - but require much more in aftercare - you've got to be very diligent to keep shoots from below the graft rubbed off, or they'll quickly overtake the graft, it will decline, and die out.

As I do not get a lot of time to read all I would Like when I do I find some very interesting commits and I am thankful We do have many persimmons available this year and others we are sold out of but this coming season we will have a large selection to choose from as we will have some many root stock that it will take the majority of the farm trees scion wood to graft all the root stock we will have . Many new and exciting cultivars will be introduced and some for the first time cultivars such as Kasandra , Sistroyonka = big sister and a few that are so large and hardy that you would swear they are Kaki Last winter was a very hard one for us as the winter temps reach minus 23.4 Celsius or -11 degrees F and we lost 268 grafted Kaki trees there are some survivors like Korea Kaki, Inchon, Vaniglia, , CHinibel, Miss Kim, Shan Xi, Orest, and Chibacha that had not winter injury at all look forward to talking with all of you Cliff England

I haven't tried Prok, although I heard it was supposed to be good. I don't grow many American Persimmons. I know that Hachiya is not as cold hardy, I grafted this variety but it didn't survive the winter. There are several less hardy varieties. I have had good success with most varieties I'm growing. Taber was collected from some farm in Florida. It seems to be incompatible when grafted with D. Virginiana. My tree is grafted on Lotus rootstock. I really enjoyed the flavor, it reminded me of Chocolate persimmon with its brown texture and sweet flavor. Bass