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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.