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[Chris Garriss <cgarriss@garriss.net>]

I have had Asian persimmons and native American.  While much smaller,
I've found the taste of almost all the Americans to be superior to the
Asians - however I have never seen Americans offered for sale any where
but rarely in a farmer's market.  You are definitely out of the range of
any Asians I know of, and dicey at best for the Americans.  The
Americans, Diospyros virginiana, are pretty tender when young, but in
theory dormant mature trees are hardy to about -35°C (-31°F).  I have
read that Dooley and Geneva Red both grow well at the northern limits of
the range, but have no experience with your zone or named varieties - I
have always picked from the wild.  I have a brother in Canada, and have
heard that there are some small distributed populations there - but
mostly near lakes and rivers.

Hope you get to try the Americans at some point.

Chris

On 25.01.2009 17:59 Steve spoke thusly:
> I just ate my fist persimmon. I can't grow them here and I just never 
> did get around to buying one, until now.
> We drove over to Lake Placid yesterday to the largest supermarket in the 
> area. I had in mind that I would buy a new fruit that I had never tried 
> and persimmons were at the top of my list. They had them. Not a great 
> display of quality and some were obviously going bad. They were only 
> about 2 inches in diameter and they were $2 each. In spite of that, I 
> decided it was high time I tried persimmons and bought 2.
> I just ate the softer of the 2 and it wasn't bad. Very sweet. The skin 
> was kind of tough compared to the soft inside but it was very edible. 
> They each had a sticker that said produce of Israel. Maybe someday, I'll 
> get to eat one that hasn't traveled so far. If I ever end up far enough 
> south for Kaki Persimmons, I'll have to try growing them myself. Big if.
>
> Steve in the Adirondacks zone 4 on the map, zone 3 in real life.
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