Good day, as I was moving a few trees around today.  I noticed my Fuyu persimmon tree was full of fruit.  I've had the tree in a pot for quite a while and was going to plant it in yard but the fruit were ripening and I did not want to disturb the roots.  I have another tree that's wild in my back yard.  It did not do so well this year but mine in a pot did!  I love persimmons and Hoshi Gaki.  Every year I order 2 cases of Hoshi Gaki.  My son's girl friend is Japanese and haven't been home for  several years.  Last year she spent Christmas with us.  When she saw the box of Hoshi Gaki, she almost cried!  SHe said it's a tradition to eat Hoshi Gaki during Christmas and the New Year.  We ate an entire box in 20 minutes!

Here are a few pictures of my tree.  These picture were taken next to one of my large Excel fig trees.  The tree had so much fruit on it and leaning to one side that I had to prop up the tree on a hill!  The tree is taller than me and I'm 6' 2".  Today I picked all the fruit and can't wait to start eating.  Enjoy! 

Your bowl of fruit looks lovely.

Last year I dried persimmons for the first time. I wanted to dry some whole ones, but in the end I did very orange but still firm Hichayas peeled and sliced thick, and dried slow at relatively low temps - about 105*F. They were simply fantastic - perhaps the best dried fruit I have ever eaten. It was not just the taste that was great, but the texture too. This year I will dry as many as I can get my hands on. I did not dry any fuyus last year, but this year I'll give them a try too.

Mmmm, another first for me in Charlotte, NC was persimmon pudding.  Maybe I need to plant a persimmon tree next spring too.

It's great that you got that much production from a container tree.  It looks sunny - I assume the photos were taken before the hurricane moved into the area right? Coincidentally, tonight I ate the first persimmon ever from my young chocolate persimmon tree which yielded three fruits this year.  It was good but not quite as sweet as others I've had in the past.  Hopefully, it will improve with age.

great pix dennis. this give me a hope that persimmon might be able to grow in container and that might work better with my wife. i'm keep bringing up fruit trees and she's keep shooting them down..

You're gonna laugh but the persimmons are not in a bowl. Their in a plastic planter tray. This tray is 12 inches in diameter and 4 inches tall. The fruit weights 6.5lb. All these came from one tree. The tree pics were taken last week. The fruit tray pic was taken around 6:30 PM today. How bout those persimmons!

I had my first persimmon just a week or so ago!  I was told it wasn't that ripe but I thought it was pretty darn good - I am looking forward to trying a real ripe one some day.

How old is your tree?....I have a Tananashi and Giombo (astringent type) that are 3 years old.  This year we had about 18 fruit from Tananashi but the Giombo did not bloom.

I am thinking about adding a Fuyu this spring from Just Fruits and Exotics (road trip for me).

How do you like your Fuyu?  Appears that it produces lots of nice fruit.

Alan

That's a great little tree, Dennis!

My Fuyus are bird-pecked and sunburned, but they still taste good. My favorite persimmon so far is Hachiya. I didn't get them covered with netting this year, so I had to armor them with berry boxes. I prefer them fresh, but also like to dry them when they're squishy soft--peeled and sliced. I tried drying sliced (& unpeeled) Fuyus but they weren't as good. The peel got tough, they turned kind of gray and the taste was pretty bland. The dried Hachiyas, on the other hand, stayed a bright, translucent orange and were delicious!

oh great.. more persimmon pictures.. maybe i just get few trees and surprise my wife and sleep in garage for few weeks.

Alan, my tree is 6 years old to me.  Meaning it was a 2 year old snapling when I got it in 2006.  A couple of years ago, it starting putting on some nice size simmons.  This is a little tree.  I had to tie the branches together to keep them from breaking!  I want another one but I'm planning on planting this guy in my front yard come Spring.  I got 6 Paw Paw trees to plant near it.  So, something is telling me not to get another one just yet.  I love Fuyu simmons.  Every year I get a couple but this year, I got a lot and will be giving some away.  My wife and I walk the neighbourhood and one neight has an old tree that's about 10 tall.  Every year I would ask her if I could get one piece of fruit.  She always reply back, "its not ready yet".  So this year, I told her, my persimmons ARE ready to pick.  She just ignored me.

I also like Haychiya.  They make Hoshi Gaki from them.  For those that don't know, Hoshi Gaki is a technique in Japan where they take ripe Hachiya persimmon from a tree and tie a string to the stem and tie the fruit up inside.  Every day they put on white gloves and massage the fruit as it dries.  After a couple of weeks, the fruit turn black and semi thin about the thickness of a dried apricot maybe a little thicker.  They are so so so so good!

My wife does not like persimmons.  She says they taste like super sweet tomatoes.  Me?  I love the texture of a ripe persimmon in my mouth.  It has a unique texture and of course....very sweet.  Fuyu are not astringent.  You can eat them while they are hard.  Just like a apple.  But to me, they are sweeter when they are soft.  I my area, they grow slow and only about 10 feet tall.

Hey Pete, just tell her it's the newest and hardiest fig ever!  Tell her its called "Figsimmon" from Portugal that only ripens in the Fall.

After seeing Dennis' post on Hoshi Gaki I treated myself this Christmas to a couple of boxes.  Never had them before, never heard of them before Dennis did this post, but now I'm hooked.  It is going to be a regular order at Christmas.  The best "candy" I have ever eaten.

The photos of persimmons inside berry box armor really made me smile.

Our house came with a horribly neglected overgrown garden. When the house was on the market, some genius "pruned" the lovely old Fuyu persimmon by chopping it in half. Amazingly, the tree thrives under my care and produces bushels of delicious fruit.

i was wondering what hoshigaki was. it seems it's dried persimmon. back in korea we used to call them 'flower persimmon'. they were peeled and dried flat. they are super sweet. very expensive. usually used in cooking and some times added to ginger tea with cinnamon. definitely a good eat.

i cant wait to move onto some property... I plan on planting a couple.

Ok, now i made up my mind, i need to plant a Fuyu porsimon mmmm...

Trader Joes is selling a semi dried persimmon that is frozen. Imported from Korea. It was pretty good frozen treat alternative to ice cream. Expensive at $4 for four. Probably won't be there for long.

this how they prep the "flower persimmon" in korea. 

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