fruit - persimmons

[rockriver]

I grew up eating a few persimmons in the fall. always tart and caused you to pucker up.
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then I found a tree with wonderful huge persimmons. big as a full sized apple.

soft texture to eat seems a little funny, but sweet... my wife slices them and dehydrates them..
taste like rolled up fruit candy folks buy.
our tree is old, so we bought 2 more...
folks, this is why you try this stuff before you have the s h t f.
the small persimmon is from the 2 trees we bought... they are ok. but not what we were looking for.
so back to the tree nursery for us!

get ya some!

[Bill Foster]

I understand that persimmon jam and jelly is good as well. At my last home I had a tree just outside of the fenced backyard. My little dog kept eating them whole an I became concerned about an intestinal blockage. I cut the tree back to a vertical post as I used it to hold a light. The next fall, I got double the yield. It's a very hearty tree.

[rockriver]

persimmon update...
dehydrator has been running around the clock...
the old tree really producing.
this morning. we found ourselves without some of the usual breakfast staples..
as many folks do,,, we have a couple of small containers of oatmeal!
so, oatmeal on the stove... right beside a bag of freshly dehydrated persimmons...
folks, you gotta try 'em... I was cutting and breaking up persimmons into the hot oatmeal. the oatmeal rehydrated
the persimmons. the persimmons sweetened up the oatmeal..
hmm. that small amount of oatmeal in the teeny tiny pantry sure looks a lot more tasty now! ---

the new trees with the persimmons that are only half sized are producing...
we kept waiting for them to get "big" and they aren't. But...
the smaller ones are just as sweet as the big, but different texture (I prefer the firmer texture when eaten raw.)
more like a ripe pear or apple... we just cut them into slices and they stay fine to eat for days.. just sitting on the counter.
we don't have any other fruits that are coming in now..
!! well, the oranges and satsumas are also!! I forgot about them... and this citrus is a new venture for us..

time to get things planted! it has taken the citrus 2 years to produce.

[norincofl]

I planted two persimmons last month after finally tasting one when it was ripe.

Delicious and a recommended fruit tree for central Florida.

[rockriver]

the smaller (but still much larger than the native persimmons I grew up with)
of ours are awesome in a salad. cut into bite size pieces.. good texture. great taste and they gotta be gud for us!
(every once in a while I try to use some of that fancy new literacy!)

[ANVIL]

Way back when I was in the Army, My First Sgt saw me eating wild persimmons off a tree on a filed problem and we got to talking about them. He was from Japan. The following year we were deployed in The Sinai Egypt, he hollered for me to report to the HQ and handed me a apple size persimmons and told me they were grown in groves like Apples in Japan. So I have always thought since then that large persimmons were Asian. Am I wrong in this belief?

[rockriver]

we call our largest persimmons --- "Asian persimmons"
I was just on the west coast and in a grocery store
saw them on a shelf with a long name.. I forgot, but I think it started with an A.
we also saw the "half sized" persimmons at the same store for sale and they were called ?? sp?? fuju
we bought some to check taste and it was the same as ours.