Collecting for Bonsai: MONSTER American Persimmon 2017!!!

UPDATE: This persimmon didn't make it through the 2017 summer season. I hope this video shows that collecting trees can be more than just a few shovel cuts here and pruning snips there. It can be extremely challenging, but the payoff can be wonderfully rewarding. But, when all that work and care isn't enough, when something you've taken from the woods died in your care, it can be very hard to take. Check the 6 minute mark of this update. https://youtu.be/nCMYNlDhycA?t=359

This has to be the hardest and most frustrating tree I'd ever collected. It was a beautiful American persimmon tree (Diospyros virginiana) that had been damaged when an old ash came crashing down upon it years ago. I found it while walking in my woods. Little did I realize the endurance it would take to get it out of the ground and into the pot. Even though it leafed out and showed great promise, it didn't make it. Keep your eyes open for the update video in the future.

Persimmon trees, with few exceptions, produce some of the most stunning displays of fruit in the bonsai realm. They can linger for months after the leaves have dropped, with a variety of colors and shapes depending on the parent trees. Parent trees, you ask? Yes. Persimmon trees are divided into sexes, with only female trees bearing fruit. I do not know what sex this particular tree was.

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