Same here as Gary's experience.  I don't see robins feeding on them much, scrub jays and sparrows here.

Man, all of these pictures of persimmons are making my mouth water! I have 18 persimmon trees (approx 75% fuyu, 25% eureka). So far there has been only a handful produced for their 1st year in ground. Pictured are 13 mixed persimmons with some plums, pluots, apricots along the right hand perimeter.  Off camera is 2 jiro dwarf persimmons, and 3 fuyu still in pots ready to be planted.  . I got some killer deals on these trees from a local nursery doing their end of year sales, twelve 5'-7' trees for 10.00 each, and the back four persimmon trees from home depot, normally 69.00 each for 25.00 each.





next year I'm going to interplant fig trees between the gaps to maximize the use of irrigated rows plus have the figs provide shade to the roots of each persimmon tree.

Ahh, nice!  To have the land to grow these trees...how amazing!  Great pictures!

Spray? Nope. All I do is fertilize. I don't even water them! It's like magic! And, I have no pest......yet.

Thanks guys! I really want to plant one at some point soon. You let them soften in the tree? My wifes grandparents have a tree and I think they pull them off hard and keep them in a dark closet or paper bag until they are soft. Is that right? Is it best to let them tree ripen?

If you can keep the birds away, it's probably best to let the astringent varieties, like Hachiya, ripen/soften on the tree, or get really close--but I pick a lot of them hard and let them soften indoors, and they're still very good. Fuyus and other non-astringent types are good hard or soft.

Thanks Ken! I'm going to get one and try some day. Although I can see it being s battle now. My neighbors all have multiple bird feeders and huge trees, basically everything I was trying to avoid...

I picked up a few fuyu persimmons at wal mart while shopping this evening. Not exactly cheap but the only place close by that do sell them.

Even here where they are commonly grown these are pretty expensive in stores, usually around $.99 each.

Gary got me motivated and I've dehydrated 5 batches (6 trays identical to Gary's) so far.  Am determined to make the birds find food elsewhere.

Oh yeah, they are at least .50 cents each on a good day! Love persimmons! i keep forgetting to take a pic of my Fuyu that has not produced in 13 years. I will remember to post it tomorrow.

Hi,
Here they start selling at 1€ a fruit in October and by now one can find kaki of random strains at 2.5€ per kg .
I bought 4 ... 4 made 1kg .

jdsfrance, if i calculated correctly, you paid approximately .67 cents in USA currency for each persimmon. Expensive!!!!