Propagating Wild Persimmon and Sassafras on Your Land

I want to re-establish wild persimmon and sassafras on my land. Can I use seeds or cuttings? Found persimmons with plum-sized fruit a few hundred miles away at same latitude.

Persimmon and Sassafras Propagation

Persimmon: Seeds work but take many years to fruit. Better: 8-inch late-spring greenwood cuttings at leaf axils, dipped in rooting hormone, rooted in damp soilless mix at 70-75°F in sealed bag. Roots in 8+ weeks. Or dig wild saplings (deep roots!), transplant immediately with manure/peat, water weekly. Sassafras: Dig root suckers from around mother trees—sever cleanly with good root system, transplant same way. Both species establish well from root suckers.