[NAFEX] fuyu persimmons

Lee Reich garden at leereich.com
Sat Dec 8 10:58:41 EST 2007


Here in Zone 5, I grow delectable American persimmons. They are like  
dried apricots that have been soaked in water, dipped in honey, and  
then given a dash of spice. The two varieties that I recommend for  
hardiness, earliness, and great flavor are Szukis and Mohler. More on  
persimmons, Asian and American, in my book Uncommon Fruits fro Every  
Garden.

Lee Reich, PhD
http://leereich.com/

Books by Lee Reich:
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
A Northeast Gardener's Year


On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Alan Haigh wrote:

> Yes, a couple thousand years of selective breeding can sure make a  
> difference.  I'm a huge fan of the fuyu non-astringent type  
> persimmon.  Biting into one, firm but not quite hard, bright orange  
> and sweet as a mango, I almost regret leaving California.  I cut  
> down my native cultivars a few years ago (Early Golden, Meader,  
> Garretson) because to me they weren't paying their rent- they were  
> just OK.
>
> But my single astringent kaki- now that's another story.  I've  
> never gotten a single fruit off that tree but every year I pop it  
> out of the soil- it's roots are somewhat contained in a Whitcomb  
> fabric bag- and cart it over to the root-cellar for winter storage  
> with my much more generous figs.  I must have first received that  
> tree over a decade ago and still not a single piece of fruit- never  
> had much luck with establishing persimmons in CA come to think of  
> it.  But I was a mere novice then, depending on instructions from  
> Sunset Magazine
>
> But now I have 2 decades more experience and resources like the  
> Nafex List.  So I'm shouting out, have any of you successfully  
> harvested Kaki's, especially the non astringents, in a zone 6A or  
> colder?  I'm interested in hands-on results here not researched  
> info- I have all of that that I need.  I know that there are some  
> very cold hardy varieties and where to order them.  I'm also  
> willing to continue my experiments with winter protected plants.   
> Have any of you out there succeeded where anticipation has been my  
> only harvest?
>
> I'm in zone 6A
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