Green tripod for temporary support, imho. Three poles lashed together. aluminum electric fence wire hanging from lashed point with 2 inch long pieces of clear tubing over the wire to protect the branches.

Tripod deals with wind better and there is no danger of cutting roots as there would be with a t post driven into the ground near the center, where it would need to be to pull in the right direction on all those branches. If it were only one or two branches, an inverted tee of 1x4 with a notch on top and an insulator between the tee and tree would work and deal with wind.

Or, you could remove the fruit from the extremes.

For the ones you picked, try freezing and thawing once of twice.

Thanks Steve. It would be great if you have a photo.

Need fairly long poles for a wide base. Legs toward branches being lifted.

I bought this root bound tree last summer from a local nursery for $50 and put it in the ground without disturbing the roots. By then end of the summer, there was no sign of fruit. So I wasn't expecting much this summer. It dropped almost half of its crop early in the season when the fruit was still tiny.
I had picked a couple fruits over a week ago. They ripened on the kitchen table and were super sweet. The ones I picked yesterday were still hard and slightly astringent. They need more time to soften up. We are very happy with this tree. 

About a week ago, I saw some Fuyus at a local Lowe's for sale and they had fruit on them.

That looks like Tampopan:

http://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/a-scoop-of-persimmon-goodness/

I thought the astringent types are not bothered by birds, but I see you have a net over yours. Was there a bird problem?

I bought a fuyu fruit from the grocery store to try a couple years ago. I didn't realize I needed to leave it be until it had softened, so the taste was very bland. Completely turned me off to persimmons until I had some good ones off my own tree. 

My frozen and thawed native fruit were almost completely without astringency. It was bright orange with no discoloration so it would have been extremely astringent.

Edible Landscaping lists many of the asian types to be 12-15 feet tall when mature. Sounds perfect.

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Steve, you might be right as the shape looks a slightly different than a Fuyu perhaps, but it was labeled as Fuyu. But it is still hard and slightly Astringent.
The fruits appear to be larger than the regular Fuyu I purchased last week. This fruit was selling fro $1.99 each at a local grocery store this past week.
I wanted to take early precautions by having a net over this tree.

The first picture shows a Fuyu in a container.

The second picture shows the fruit from my tree.

 
 

I just saw this post of Tamopan and it looks very close to my fruit.




http://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/a-scoop-of-persimmon-goodness/

That's what I was thinking too. 

I found a few large plants for $25 each on Craigs List to go with the the small Hyakume.
   
 

Picked up a fuyu and hachiya at Lowes today for $23 each so if your looking....