MountZionCollec
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Persimmon have really low chill hours, but are hardy to zone 7. I haven't researched them very much but I'm sure some varieties would grow here. Depends on when they bloom, the cold would be fine, but if they bloom earlier then before early-mid April they would get too beat up in late spring weather at my location which can be pretty wet-windy-cold-snow. I'm a little over 4000 above sea level, but I'm still in Zone 8b-9 with low temperatures only reaching in the 20s, very rarely dipping below 25 degrees . We're on South facing hill at least 1000 feet higher then the hills on the south side extending 7 miles before hitting a taller mountain, this keeps the cold wet forest climate out, night and day difference in the climate on the north side of the hill with many comparably tall mountains in a bowl of shaded forest.
In the future we'll have more infrastructure to store seeds, most likely once we put in a large root cellar hopefully this winter as long as I have a successful year. I won't starting saving my vegetable seeds for another couple years as there is too much I want to try while so much is available.
We have been juggling a whole lot of activities it's been fun now that I'm starting to know what I'm doing and since I've cut lose the experiments that proved not to suit me! ive had to learn my lesson though more then a few times...for example the sheep! But we gave them away to a local family who has livestock and were wanting some Icelandic but couldn't afford them. We gave them the two parents and two babies, and the mom had 3 more babies! Would have been a nightmare with 7 sheep on my land eating up everything.
Persimmon have really low chill hours, but are hardy to zone 7. I haven't researched them very much but I'm sure some varieties would grow here. Depends on when they bloom, the cold would be fine, but if they bloom earlier then before early-mid April they would get too beat up in late spring weather at my location which can be pretty wet-windy-cold-snow. I'm a little over 4000 above sea level, but I'm still in Zone 8b-9 with low temperatures only reaching in the 20s, very rarely dipping below 25 degrees . We're on South facing hill at least 1000 feet higher then the hills on the south side extending 7 miles before hitting a taller mountain, this keeps the cold wet forest climate out, night and day difference in the climate on the north side of the hill with many comparably tall mountains in a bowl of shaded forest.
In the future we'll have more infrastructure to store seeds, most likely once we put in a large root cellar hopefully this winter as long as I have a successful year. I won't starting saving my vegetable seeds for another couple years as there is too much I want to try while so much is available.
We have been juggling a whole lot of activities it's been fun now that I'm starting to know what I'm doing and since I've cut lose the experiments that proved not to suit me! ive had to learn my lesson though more then a few times...for example the sheep! But we gave them away to a local family who has livestock and were wanting some Icelandic but couldn't afford them. We gave them the two parents and two babies, and the mom had 3 more babies! Would have been a nightmare with 7 sheep on my land eating up everything.
