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Educational Content

• Persimmon Education, reviewed by UC Specialists and Farm Advisors

  • Content includes: propagation, variety selection, orchard management, deficiencies & pests, photo galleries, crop overview

including Basic Crop Information

• Persimmon Education, reviewed by UC Specialists and Farm Advisors

  • Content includes: propagation, variety selection, orchard management, deficiencies & pests, photo galleries, crop overview

Newsletters & Blogs: Farm Advisors - Current Topics

• Orchard Notes - Sutter-Yuba Counties

  • Newsletter from Janine Hasey, Farm Adviosr, Sutter-Yuba Counties.

• Orchard Notes - Tulare County

  • Newsletter by Kevin Day, Farm Advisor, Tulare County. Primarily stone fruit production and culture, some coverage of apples, pears, cherries, apricots, kiwifruit, persimmons and pomegranates.

non-University of California Resources

• Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana L.)

  • Center for New Crops and Plants Products, Purdue University

• Growing Oriental Persimmons in North Carolina

  • M.L. Parker, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Leaflet 337, 1993

• Enhancing the Marketability of California Persimmons

  • USDA-ARS

• Mediterranean Fruits: Olive, Mandarin, Fig, Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pistachio, Loquat

  • Joan Tous and Louise Ferguson. In: J. Janick (ed.), Progress in new crops. ASHS Press, Arlington, VA. 1996

• Persimmons: An Overview of Cultivars, Production, Harvesting and Marketing (PowerPoint to pdf)

  • Charles A. Brun, Washington State Univ. 57-slide overview

• Crop Profile for Persimmons in California (pdf)

  • National Science Foundation Center for IPM. 1999 (7 pp.)

• Persimmon Pest Management in the San Joaquin Valley

  • Devin Carroll

• Persimmon Fruit Facts

  • California Rare Fruit Growers

• Crop Knowledge: Persimmon

  • Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa

• Farmer's Bookshelf: Persimmon

  • University of Hawaii at Manoa

Organizations

• Grown in California

  • Fresno, California

• California Fuyu Growers

  • Valley Center, CA

• California Rare Fruit Growers

  • Fullerton, CA

Production Management

• Persimmon Fact Sheet

  • Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis.

• Physiological Disorder Fact Sheets: Apple, Grape, Olive, Pear, Persimmon, Pomegranate, Stonefruit

  • Carlos Crisosto, (ed.) Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, UC Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center

• Growing Persimmons

  • Division of Agricultural Sciences, University of California

• Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality: Persimmon

  • Carlos H. Crisosto, Elizabeth J. Mitcham, and Adel A. Kader Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis