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Posted: 10/25/2009 3:53:13 AM EDT
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Mine was just as sweet. So sweet, that I had dinner guest every night till they were gone. (Deer)
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Posted: 10/25/2009 5:17:12 AM EDT
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Anyone else got persimmons? I've got a couple of trees that drop them every year. One year a squirrel or rat packed the top of my truck's engine FULL of persimmons overnight, from the heads up to the breather. Hundreds of persimmons. I like the taste of persimmons in cookies, etc. and it doesn't take a lot, usually about a cup of pulp added to a recipe. Does anyone have hints on how to gather the pulp? It seems such a pain to get all of the seeds out... |
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Posted: 10/25/2009 4:41:23 PM EDT
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I know where some trees are here and there. I can't believe you've had a hard enough frost in SC to sweeten them up. 
Heck, we only had a killing frost up here about two weeks ago. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 8:08:41 AM EDT
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I've been eating them––love them.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 8:39:30 AM EDT
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best fruit, ever. bar none. I want 3 persimmon trees for my future BOL and nothing else
I'll survive on the bark and leaves in summer! 
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Posted: 10/26/2009 8:41:19 AM EDT
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best fruit, ever. bar none. I want 3 persimmon trees for my future BOL and nothing else I'll survive on the bark and leaves in summer! For anyone who has access, this month's Missouri Conservationist has an article on them. Very interesting. 
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Posted: 10/26/2009 9:45:52 AM EDT
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best fruit, ever. bar none. I want 3 persimmon trees for my future BOL and nothing else I'll survive on the bark and leaves in summer! For anyone who has access, this month's Missouri Conservationist has an article on them. Very interesting. I sadly don't have access, enlighten us?
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Posted: 10/26/2009 12:04:43 PM EDT
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For anyone who has access, this month's Missouri Conservationist has an article on them. Very interesting. Quoted:
I sadly don't have access, enlighten us?
Try this Link |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 1:41:20 PM EDT
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Awesome article.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 3:15:24 PM EDT
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Awesome article. Yes––sorry to not get back to you. 
A couple of things I found interesting was the hardness of the wood (I would NEVER cut one down!), and the mention of frost having nothing to do with them turning sweet. I've always heard it was the frost too, but they claim it is just a matter of time and the frost is incidental. Whodathunkit?? 
Edit: Thanks much for the assist, Skunkum!
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Posted: 10/26/2009 3:34:55 PM EDT
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I used to do a survey every year where there was a patch of trees, and EVERY year, I'd pick a new summer kid to "introduce" to the joys of unripe persimmons.
Heck, I was ruthless. If I had too, I'd pick one and pop it in my mouth, just to reassure them that they were GOOD! And of course, whoever got tricked would talk some other new kid into it the following week. But none of them would go as far as chewing one up, just to get a newbie to do it.
I'd always heard it took a hard frost, but they are dropping like crazy, and we haven't been that cold yet. Might try to grab some and make jam/jelly. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:20:55 PM EDT
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Yes––sorry to not get back to you.
no biggie
They just ripen by waiting, nothing to do with frost, select some reasonably hard (unripe) persimmons next time you're buying them. Put them on a windowsill or a countertop away from direct sun light or moisture. Those horribly bitter things will ripen and will be as delicious as buying them ripe. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:24:02 PM EDT
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Yes––sorry to not get back to you.
no biggie
They just ripen by waiting, nothing to do with frost, select some reasonably hard (unripe) persimmons next time you're buying them. Put them on a windowsill or a countertop away from direct sun light or moisture. Those horribly bitter things will ripen and will be as delicious as buying them ripe. "Buying"?? 
Time to tell my persimmon seed story, I guess . . . This is true, BTW, but perhaps you had to be there. The mere mention of persimmon will cause my buddy and I to laugh until tears roll––as well as the guys who were there.
My hunting buddy and I both own ground so we like to plant stuff of benefit, both for us and the wildlife. Once we learned about persimmons we had to have some. Trouble is, the seeds have to go through an animal's digestive tract in order to germinate, otherwise the trees would be overrun with small trees growing beneath them. Anyway, a month or two after we learned of this we were out bird hunting with three other guys and a couple of pointers. We were walking a railroad track between two hunting spots and we looked down and spotted a coon turd that was solid persimmon seeds––no real "poo" in it, just seeds. We both saw it at the same time, and we both had the same idea, so we both threw our (unloaded) shotguns off in the weeds and dove onto the turd. We wrestled around for a good bit fighting over it and when we finally had it divied up between us the three guys with us were trying to decide whether to flee from the crazy fools, or shoot us out of mercy. They had the most horrified look on their faces seeing us rolling around on the ground fighting over a coon turd. When the full impact of the situation hit us we laughed until we nearly peed our pants. 
Anyway, at least one of those seeds is now a tree about 15' tall and loaded with fruit. I ate some last week. I didn't flag the spots I planted them so I keep hoping I'll find more of them. 
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Posted: 10/27/2009 9:52:44 AM EDT
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great info, thanks for the link!! Maybe frost has nothing to do with it, but cold weather makes apples sweeter, so perhaps cold helps persimmons too?
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Posted: 10/28/2009 4:11:13 PM EDT
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Good info, thanks for the link Skunkum.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 12:22:21 PM EDT
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OH I LOVE persimmons. Haven't had any in years. Not since we moved here. No trees around that I know of.
FordGuy I bet if you got a really high-quality extra-dark chocolate you would not be disapponted. The bitter juxtaposed with the sweet and that intense persimmon flavor should work great! |
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Posted: 10/29/2009 12:34:48 PM EDT
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Time to tell my persimmon seed story, I guess . . . .....snip... Beekeeper, that's a great story.
For anybody wanting to propogate with no coon required, you should be able to duplicate the animal digestive tract with mild acid scarification. My manual says you can stratify the seeds in peat for 60-90 days at 41 degrees (I suspect anywhere in the fridge compartment would do as long as it wasn't right beside the light, where it might be warmer). |
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Posted: 10/29/2009 4:48:55 PM EDT
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I wish y'all were here to help clean up our driveway. Our tree drops TONS of those things. As others have said, they taste great. We usually have hundreds of little saplings come spring time, have to mow them down.
If anyone wants a few seeds, let me know. The fruit, at least here in TX, doesn't require a frost to be sweet. |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 4:56:06 PM EDT
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I have two large trees on my place-they are just now getting soft enough to eat. These are the small American type, and we have been trying to find a hardy large Korean type. Every catalog I get says the asian types of persimmons are not hardy enough for Michigan weather-but I know they are growing in South Korea up by the NK border. No one here seems to have that type though. I've got several small trees of the asian type growing right now,and they have survived several winters here-we will see if they can make it. We want the large asian kind that we can dry,and also don't need to soften up to be sweet. here is one of my trees,from another thread here:
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Posted: 11/5/2009 5:14:56 PM EDT
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Had one in back yard that was about 50 feet tall, and was always full of fruit.
Wife made me cut it down, was fed up with the flies, and bees when it started dropping fruit. You couldn't get within 20 feet of the tree without stepping on fruit, and then getting swarmed by flies and bees. The deer sure miss it. almost like hunting over bait. |
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