Persimmon trees

I bought a tree and dont know much about them. Actualy ive never eatten the asian kind. What are your favorite kinds to eat and grow? What's the easiest to grow? Should I get another for pollination or will the wild ones work?

We've got a Fuyu tree. It's a non astringent variety and it's also parthenocarpic, which means the fruit forms whether or not the flower is pollinated. I've never seen a seed in any of our persimmons, but there are no other trees nearby so that's a data point.

The fruit from this variety is large and sweet, and can be eaten when it's still firm. Ours are ripe right now and the little tree is absolutely loaded, so I'm slicing them thin and putting them in the dehydrator. I thinned the crop a few months ago so that the branches wouldn't be too overloaded, and we still have tips dragging the ground.

The trees are pretty trouble-free and hardy, and my only care recommendation is to prune them so as to avoid long whiplike branches, as the wood is brittle and easily snapped by wind. Our tree does the alternating year thing, with a bumper crop one year and slim pickings the next.

I also have a fuyu, and it is quite reliable. We only have one tree, and there is not another tree nearby for pollination. I think the neighbors maybe have one, but I do not think they need or benefit from cross pollination. We also get a bit of alternating yields, but generally it seems to bounce between a lot, and A TON of fruit. They are great dried.

Persimmons do indeed need a pollinator, but because they are pollinated by wind, not insects, a wildling will do, and it doesn't need to be particularly close by. If you're in an area with a lot of native persimmons, you don't need to worry about it.

The only pest or disease issue they have in my region is tent caterpillars, which are simple to just pull off the tree with a stick. They are more slow-growing than other fruit trees early on, so if they seem to be languishing, don't sweat it.

I have Fuyu, Jiro and am starting Tam Kam and Maekawa along with some astringent varieties that are Ukrainian, American Hybrids and some Asian.  I like variety so the bloom at different times and also harvest at different times.
I do like the sweet crunchy non-astringent but so many have told me that the astringent are much sweeter.