Maybe this is what I've been doing wrong....

[Shufigo]

My success grafting apples and deer pears is 90%+. My success on my persimmons is maybe 2 or 3%!!! While looking at a gardening site today, I came across a persimmon grafting thread that addressed a problem I hadn't previously thought of - - am I grafting too early? Up until now I've grafted my persimmons just a bit after my apples and pears, about mid-March in Eastern VA. This site said I should wait until the host tree was leafing out - - not budding, but leafing. Said you could graft as late as early July - risking an early cold autumn but assuring heavy sap flow to aid the graft. Also, my successes have all been on thick limb bark grafting - zero on branches with T&G, whip and cleft.
So, my question is, what are your thoughts on how late you can graft persimmons? (Average daytime high temperatures?)

 

[massey]

Makes sense. On my farm in botetourt county they often don’t leaf out until early May. You’d want that flush of growth to be just after your graft, so try a few in April.


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[Native Hunter]

Beginning to leaf out is correct for persimmons. That’s what works for me.