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Tell me all about Persimmons
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:26 pm
While scouting this weekend I found one persimmon on the ground. It was soft and juicy. No there no where around. But I did find quite a few persimmon trees in the area. Some full of new buds, some with no buds.
Even though I've always looked, I've never found persimmons like this. This is on public land. Am I looking at mid-late October or November before the fruit is dropping or before the deer or coming around?
Even though I've always looked, I've never found persimmons like this. This is on public land. Am I looking at mid-late October or November before the fruit is dropping or before the deer or coming around?
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Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:29 pm to SkintBack
I'll tell you this much, they are a dioecious plant which means there are male and female trees. So you can only expect that 1/2 of the trees will produce fruit.
And it's a little early for them to be ripe and falling.
And it's a little early for them to be ripe and falling.
This post was edited on 9/13/21 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:30 pm to SkintBack
They about to be dropping around here (NELA). They're usually done by mid October or so.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:38 pm to SkintBack
If you break the seeds of a green persimmon in half, long ways, they have either a spoon, knife or fork inside.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:40 pm to auggie
Didn't believe that shite til last year
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:41 pm to auggie
I seen the spoon this year, means a snowy winter?
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:47 pm to SkintBack
They are typically done dropping by the first week of october
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:48 pm to Koolazzkat
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I seen the spoon this year, means a snowy winter?
I don't remember
Posted on 9/13/21 at 1:50 pm to SkintBack
They taste the best if can get them green
Posted on 9/13/21 at 2:17 pm to Outdoorreb
LMAO.....dared a friend when we were younger. He couldn't drink enough water......
Posted on 9/13/21 at 2:20 pm to SkintBack
There is some variation in ripening. The latest I have seen them still holding on is first week in November, but that was an isolated case. Love the wild ones. Zero use for the domesticated ones.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 2:29 pm to AlxTgr
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There is some variation in ripening
Absolutely. Where i hunt in SE oklahoma, there are still plenty on the trees in mid November. In fact, they're still a lot of them during rifle season.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 2:50 pm to SkintBack
Alabama and Mississippi I used to find trees that held fruit till mid late October and deer would walk over corn to eat them. They will continue to check a tree even after it’s wiped out. My current lease in louisiana has a couple trees but they never have fruit during bow season and drop them all by sept 29th.
The chinese variety or domestic ones make some great pepper jelly.
The chinese variety or domestic ones make some great pepper jelly.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 3:17 pm to SkintBack
I have two in my yard and the crows, squirrels, and opossums are on them right now. Hard to keep any fruit at all.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 4:09 pm to Stexas
The parent tree roots will tee up and make more trees.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 4:12 pm to SkintBack
Found the same here in SELA a couple days ago. Defiantly early for them to be so ripe.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:25 pm to GREENHEAD22
I'll be back in a month, its the first place I'm going check.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:29 pm to Stexas
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I have two in my yard and the crows, squirrels, and opossums are on them right now.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen in all my years of bowhunting was watching a coon walk the edge of a swamp for roughly 200 yds before going up a persimmon in front of me. Rascal went about40 ft up and out to the VERY farthest limb on that tree to get the last persimmmon on it. Reckon the coon was 20 lbs or so and that SOB had that branch bent 6 ft or more off it's regular spot, but he wasn't letting go and he was bound and determined to get that last persimmon.
When they are ripe deer will walk past EVERYTHING else to get to them....seen it too many times.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:51 pm to Dances with Beagles
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And it's a little early for them to be ripe and falling.
May be dropping early this yr. I went to camp yest. And walked by a tree. Ground was purple with them. All over
Posted on 9/14/21 at 8:24 am to oleyeller
Also, excess N fertilizer will cause them to drop fruit in the spring. Learned the hard way that fertilizer doesn’t work on them too well.
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