I live in South east Kansas and care for 5 of my mom's persimmon trees. I also have some persimmon seedlings I started from fruit collected last fall for my own yard.
All of the trees are native persimmon. I have grafted several variaties to mom's trees and most are doing well..
I might add more to this intro later..
Thanks for the invite!!~~~

Gina *BabyBlue*

Hi, Gina; welcome aboard, and congrats on being the first member to post to the Persimmon forum!
Hopefully, we'll soon be populated with a bevy of persimmon affectionados, many of whom can bring their enthusiasm and a high level of experience to the table.

I'm located in southern west-central KY, about an hour NW of Nashville TN. I've been collecting and propagating persimmons - mostly selections of the native American, D.virginiana - for about 10 years now. Most are still too young to bear fruit, but I have been getting a few fruits off some of the first ones I grafted. Easter Big Freeze Disaster this year pretty well assured us of no persimmon fruits, and killed a few of my grafted trees back to the rootstock.