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    Was back out there last night and a few had turned orange and softened up. Gave them a try. Pretty good, kinda reminds of a fig. But the seeds are huge.

    The other tree, of the two producing, is slam full of them now, but they are still the unripe purple color that is pictured above.
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    Deer magnets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rrconductor View Post
    Deer magnets.
    And coon magnets...and possum magnets.

    I sat on the deck one night with my dad and watch two gray foxes get into a major war under the persimmon trees in his yard when the persimmons were dropping. He had a security light not far from the tree so we had a good view. It was an epic battle that lasted longer than I would have thought. Finally one of the foxes finally tuned tail and headed for the woods on the run. Dad had been watching deer there and that's what we were expecting to see. No deer showed up that night but those foxes put on a better show.
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    Everyone has to experience a green persimmon once in there life.
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    Tree down the road is loaded up. Not a single fruit on the trees we got. Coyotes will eat them as well.
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    Took this pic of one of my trees for comparison. This was today.

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    Another pic from today. These are finally ready.

    This is a big tree in the open. Maybe they are later than some of the smaller ones.


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    'Usually takes a good frost to ripen them.
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    These will be long gone by then

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    Y'all notice the trees that sometimes are loaded but hang onto their fruit until the seasons out and never seem to ripen up on the tree? We have a few like this and they'll have hundreds but never drop them.
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    the ones at the farm dropped early this year, not a single persimmon left.

    I saw a tree off hwy 25 the other day that is loaded with ripe persimmons
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    The trees at my place have been bare for a while now. Wonder if that will change as they mature?
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    I have had plenty of sterile persimmons growing like weeds all around my place but recently I found three small trees that produced fruit. Not sure what made this their year to produce but I'm excited to find some viable trees. I'm cutting down all their competition and I'll fertilize the hell out of them in the Spring and see how they do next year.

    I gathered some seeds from a friend's place that has a lot of proucing trees. The internets told me I needed to wrap them in a moist a paper towel in a plastic zip lock baggie and leave them in the frig for a couple months to scarify them before planting. Tried it and didn't get a single sprout.

    I was recently in Korea and they grow persimmons all over the place. Theirs are a domesticated variety on which the fruits get to the size of a medium sized tomato. I bought some at the grocery store and mashed one up and drank it with Soju (Korean Sake) like an electric smoothie. It was pretty horrible, much like what I imagine cocktails in prison taste like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MolliesMaster View Post
    The trees at my place have been bare for a while now. Wonder if that will change as they mature?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SaltMuck View Post
    Y'all notice the trees that sometimes are loaded but hang onto their fruit until the seasons out and never seem to ripen up on the tree? We have a few like this and they'll have hundreds but never drop them.
    I've seen them like that and it seems like some years there are a lot more trees like that than others. As far as some trees being sterile, I just figured there might be male and female persimmon trees with the females obviously the ones that bear fruit.

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    There are definitely male and female when it comes to persimmons so don't cut down the ones that don't produce.

    As for ones that never drop, I've never seen that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LabLuvR View Post
    Nope.
    To clarify, they bore fruit and dropped really early. When i started this thread, some of them were already starting to drop. I was wondering if they would hold fruit later into the year as they matured.
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    I'm perplexed by the purple color. I have one tree that is also purple. Yours is only the second tree I have ever seen like that. All my others go from green to orange. But my outlier goes from blue/green to purple.

    Mine also exclusively drop during bow season.

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