hooray! nice to see the festi picture, and great writing. inspirational with the prizes too! Im growing a few trees of a few kinds of persimmons, the fuyu you can eat crunchy that sells well, the hachiya my favorite , the saijo which means "the very best one" in japanese, coffeecake, chocolate, and the tamopan which looks like 2 big fuyus smashed together but you eat it super soft like a hachiya. the saijo are like small hachiya, and they have a few narrow seeds, and they tend to grow like grapes in clusters. I've got some native American persimmons too but I lost the name of the variety. I bought 30 more native persimmon wildlife trees from the state forestry for a buck each , and I plan on grafting at least some of them, to save money because grafted persimmons are generally pricey! I often wonder about them being native to the American southeast and Midwest, and also native to China Japan and Korea. could there have been a human aspect to this distribution, like from a very ancient civilization? somebody told me no, but I'm still wondering...I read once that in china before 1900 persimmons were like 80% of the fruit eaten in china!!!!! I think they dried a lot. I don't know. I like the trees because you don't have to prune them too much, and they get ripe after you're done harvesting all of your other crops, which is very nice if you've got a lot of food growing. and also, birds and bears don't ravage them too much because you can pick them before they're completely ripe. amazing trees. gooey sugar! like custard but healthy hahaha oh, and persimmon bread- that might be the most important thing I've said- once you discover persimmon bread, you will make a lot of it. so delicious. just like chocolate cake...
hooray! nice to see the festi picture, and great writing. inspirational with the prizes too! Im growing a few trees of a few kinds of persimmons, the fuyu you can eat crunchy that sells well, the hachiya my favorite , the saijo which means "the very best one" in japanese, coffeecake, chocolate, and the tamopan which looks like 2 big fuyus smashed together but you eat it super soft like a hachiya. the saijo are like small hachiya, and they have a few narrow seeds, and they tend to grow like grapes in clusters. I've got some native American persimmons too but I lost the name of the variety. I bought 30 more native persimmon wildlife trees from the state forestry for a buck each , and I plan on grafting at least some of them, to save money because grafted persimmons are generally pricey! I often wonder about them being native to the American southeast and Midwest, and also native to China Japan and Korea. could there have been a human aspect to this distribution, like from a very ancient civilization? somebody told me no, but I'm still wondering...I read once that in china before 1900 persimmons were like 80% of the fruit eaten in china!!!!! I think they dried a lot. I don't know. I like the trees because you don't have to prune them too much, and they get ripe after you're done harvesting all of your other crops, which is very nice if you've got a lot of food growing. and also, birds and bears don't ravage them too much because you can pick them before they're completely ripe. amazing trees. gooey sugar! like custard but healthy hahaha oh, and persimmon bread- that might be the most important thing I've said- once you discover persimmon bread, you will make a lot of it. so delicious. just like chocolate cake...