Got persimmons? Watching the game....went outside to check on my figs and my persimmon trees caught my eye! Look at the awesome red leaves of my Honan Red and Hachiya. Both have red leaves. The one on the left is Honan Red. The one on the left is Hachiya. Fuyu is in the middle. These picked are Fuyu.

Happy Fall Y'all!!!!!

Awesome, I've never had a Persimmon but def need to try them since they seem to grow good here, judging by the looks of your trees and Fruit. Nice job!

Gorgeous!  I love Fuyu persimmons!

How do you eat fuyus? Do you have to peel them and cut out the seeds first?

I quarter them and peel them, and eat them while firm.  They taste like a really sweet carrot center, if that makes sense, even though they're not carroty.  You can wait and let them soften a little but in my opinion, they're really good crisp.

There are 2 types of persimmons, astrigent type and the non-astrigent type. The astrigent type are those ones you find out growing wild and a few Japanese cultivars. These have to be completely soft before eating. Fuyu is a non-astrigent type meaning you can eat them hard like an apple. Fully ripe persimmons are SUPER sweet and rich tasting. Hachiya are one of the sweetest I've ever tasted. Fuyu have a very long shelf life. Hachiya persimmons must be eaten when completely soft or frozen. If you try to eat it when hard, it will pucker your mouth like crazy. You don't have to peel any of them.

Dennis, I see yo have 2 Left LOL...which is the left left, and the right left...
Nice looking trees thought , I do Like the Hachiya Persimmons...when it is ripe it is taste is Taste from Heaven...
Mark

I have a few persimon trees myself, I have enough persimmon trees... Have used most of my space for fig trees.. Ive started grafting different varieties on the tanenashi which is a dwarf persimmon tree. Wondering how does the honan red taste Dennis.  I'd like to get some of those cuttings...  Hychiya is one of my favorites next to Fuyu, and Saijo . 

Carl
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If anyone can send me cuttings, I'll be happy to pay postage. I've never grafted but i'm really interested in saving my Fuyu and this sounds like a great option!

At this time of year our son is usually taking an Fuyu persimmon in his lunch instead of an apple.  Our tree received very little care here and produces about 100 pounds of fruit.

 

Carl, Honan Red did not fruit this year.  I messed up and through out too much weed and feed lawn fertilizer.  It got to close to it and my Hyachia and this year they did not fruit.  But they will next year.  I hear great things about Saijo.  I had one years ago and screwed up when I repotted it.  It died later that year.  Repotting persimmons can be tricky.  They don't like their roots messed with much.  But I plan on getting another one later this month.  Bass likes it.  I hear Suruga is a great one.  That one might be on the next one I get.

I don't know Charlie about trying out that tea.  My wife made me some lemon grass tea and I was up all night!

Hey Harvey, I eat one a day!  They have a long shelf life.  Your tree looks beautiful!  Persimmons are a no maintenance tree.  You just plant it, water it and forget it!  My neighbor has one.  It is LOADED with Fuyu persimmons!  Her tree is about 10 feet tall.  She has 2x4s under it to keep the limbs from breaking!  LOL!

Think I picked 7 different cultivars of Kaki this morning, this was just a sampling. Love Fall  
 

Wow!  A BEAUTIFUL array of fruits (nuts?), Phil!  I love that feeling...when I walk out my back door and just PICK something from a tree or a plant and eat it!  Love it!

which is your favorite persimmon, Phil?

I have been toying with the idea of growing a persimmon or two in pots, they won't make in the ground here. Dennis, do you or have you had any productive persimmons in pots?

My third time buying these things. Love them.
Have two trees in the yard but every season they die back from the cold.
Lou  

Not a fuyu, but my Jiro persimmon. This has been in ground over 2 years, this is the first year it put on new growth due to super cold winters. This is the first time it had these beautiful red leaves, they are gorgeous!

Getting some serious bark damage, possible insect.

 

Calvin when I got my Fuyu it was 6 feet tall and in a 10 gallon pot. The tree was a beast! I left it in the pot for 3 months. It grew fine, fruited a lot and then the tree started leaning badly from all of the fuit. So, when november came, I harvested all the fruit then dragging the tree to it's new location. I dragged it because the tree was so freaking heavy! When I repotted it, I sat the tree inside the hole and without disturbing the roots, I cut the pot away from the rootball. Then I back filled the hole with the dirt. So, I know it will grow in a container pot, but root pruning will probably kill the tree. Persimmons don't like their roots messed with.

My favorite is one at the right ripeness. I guess it would be a non-astringent  just prior to beginning to soften with crispness still.  I am still trying to define which non- astringent I like best, and some of mine have not fruited yet, but right now I feel all non-astringent  taste pretty similar if at the same ripeness and my favorite one will probably be determined by hardiness.   I am beginning to move more favor to astringent ones that still retain some firmness when ripe. I really don’t care for a complete gooey glob. I will say my least favorite to this point is Tanennashi

Hi cis4elk,
Last year here, a nursery had some persimmon trees by October still in stock and they had fruits. They had spent all summer at that place in their pots with drip irrigation.
The pots were something like 3gallons/12liters I guess . So not that big. But the fruits were smaller and the trees were obviously suffering.
They needed up potted or go to the ground I guess. The trees were already damn high, more than 2meters/7' - go fetch that with a normal car ...
Here they grow those trees with a canopy starting at 1,5m/5' . I'm still hunting for one persimmon tree with a canopy at 1m/3' .
Once I find it, I'll get it I guess ...

@brooklynmatty: lime on the trunk would be my way to go. That or something else, but I got rid of the fig-moth/fig-caterpillar after I white washed the trunks of my fig trees.
                       "Help yourself, and HE shall help you ..." So for me, I still think it was the lime on the trunks avoiding the insects to climb on the trunk and getting to the leaves .