My family is from Taiwan and we have a persimmon tree in our backyard here in California. I've always associated persimmons with East Asia, so imagine my surprise to learn that they're also native to the American South! I wish they were more widely loved in the US, they're such lovely fruits.
Yeah, I had persimmons for the first time in Taiwan. They have a couple different kinds and are pretty popular there. I was also surprised to learn that they're from here. The only stores in the US that I find persimmons are Asian markets and, recently, Costco.
I have only one persimmon tree in the backyard, this year it gave many buckets of it. I gave away to neighbors and ask them coming over to pick as many as they want.
When I was a child in the 1960s, we lived in base housing in Warner Robins, Georgia. The backyard was a huge field, bordered by some woods. There were huge persimmon trees, and we used to pick the ripe fruit after the first freeze. They were really good. Unripe persimmons were used for throwing at our friends, we would sharpen a thin stick and use it to fling at your target. I'm 70years old now but I remember the persimmons. There was also poke salad and wild blackberries growing all over the place. The trees were eventually cut down for building a stadium in 1965. I used to finds lots of arrowheads on the ground. They looked like they just floated up out of the red dirt after rain storms. Thanks for reminding me of that, and the sweet taste of the ripe persimmons!
I am 71 and our cellar was full of jars of wild black berry, blueberry, strawberry and grape jellies and jams. We had apple, cherry, trees and would go to SC for peaches and can these also. Would pick branch lettuce in the spring and wilt it with grease, vinegar and onions and have with cornbread. Squirrels, rabbits and venison rounded it out. Those were the good old days of some mighty fine eating and times to grow up in the hills of NC.
We planted a native persimmon tree years ago. Absolutely love the fruit. We never "pick" fruit but it only drops when it's ripe. We gather them in late afternoon so we beat the wildlife to them.
A stick with a small plastic cup screwed to the end will save your back 😊 the hardest part is picking them up. A serving bowl full will make approximately two cups of pulp. Pies and cookies is what I do with them. 👍
@@lyndonwhitson2269 would you mind sharing your pie recipe, we have a tree of Fuyu and I just make cookies and dehydrate them. I would love to try a pie, thanks 😊
I prefer to pick them before they fall. Crunchier. The crows comes for them as soon as they're soft and ours never get to that fall off the ground stage.
i was born and raised in the south, in alabama. my mom saved enough money to bring my grandma over from vietnam, and she quickly planted a persimmon tree in our front yard. we had fresh, ripe persimmons every september and october, so many we had to gift them to neighbors. she used seeds from vietnam, so i had no idea there was an american variety! thank you so much for the informative video
I had a few persimmon trees at a previous home. Across the road was a wooded area with a valley and a creek. In autumn, the ripe persimmons would fall off the two large trees into my front yard, and LOTS of raccoons would come silently up out of the valley in the middle of the night, sit on their little haunches in my yard, hold the persimmons in their front paws, gobble them down. WAY cool! Thanks for sparking a good memory!
@@orsonzedd Native persimmons have a wide variety in taste and quality. If you want the best tasting ones for your yard, it's best to find a tree with excellent fruit, then take some of the suckers that sprout up by the trunk in the spring and root them in a container, then plant those particular trees in your yard the next year or 2.
I just planted several American Persimmon trees in my yard this year and over a dozen in the woods above my house. My local county conservation department had a tree sale in the spring and I bought a bunch of seedlings. I can’t wait until I start getting fruit!
My grandma had a rhyme she would always say about persimmons. Possum up a simmon tree Raccoon on the ground Raccoon says y'ol crank you Throw them simmons down ! I can't hear any mention of persimmons without repeating it in her memory. 🥰
lol your gma was cool. Mine payed child support for a few years while her sister raised me and my 14 yr old mother. I wish she had raised me like she did my brothers (same mom different dad). Wouldn't've happened if gmas husband hadn't taken the easy way out. Things we do reverberate through the generations. You got some good stuff. I didn't. I have to admit, I am jealous.
Persimmons are a treat that we like to be selfish with lol. They grow by the creek here and literally provide a quarter of our fruits and veggie intake. Love it
I grew up on a peach orchard in Missouri and have had some incredible tree-ripened fruit unlike everyone who has only eaten store-bought fruit and I STILL remember how incredibly good the last persimmon tasted more than 45 years ago!
Peaches grew at one time in Tennessee. Growing up I lived on a street where peach trees flourished. New home owners over the years have since cut them all down. Of course this was over 40 yrs ago @tribalismblindsthembutnoty124
Southern Indiana native here. Lucky enough to have grown up with two big persimmon trees in my home yard, always had gallons upon gallons of persimmon pulp every year, and gave most of it away-and it ended up coming back in part, in the form of desserts shared among neighbors and family! Love persimmons and persimmon pudding,
Yes, you are extremely fortunate to have had persimmons trees. I planted 2 small persimmon trees, in wide open spaces, here in NJ. The trees grew to 40 ft, but unfortunately the fruits only grew to a quarter size. A well ripe persimmon is not only delicious, but also divine.
@@MarilynOPossum Thanx a lot, Marilyn ! Since my first comment, I learned that by pruning the vertical branches, I can get big and more fruits. Come 3/2025, I will definitely buy a tree from Gurney's. Stay well and Happy Holidays !!!
Aka 'fruit of the gods'. We have some persimmons on our property. I've had them both, ripe and not ripe. There's an old wives tale about how their seeds can predict the weather of the upcoming winter. If you open a seed in half, you'll see either one of these: a knife, a fork, or a spoon. In fact they look exactly like little plastic utensils! The knife claims your area will experience a brutally cold winter, one that will 'cut you to the bone'. A fork, a mild winter. A spoon means shovel snow, or more than average precipitation. So far, I found this to be true here!
@@Brianabelle7337AL-Astarastani Ok, you can believe that, but the etymology of the name 'persimmon' is an Anglicized version of “pessamin”, with the genus name 'Diospyros'. In Greek, Dios translates into gods.Pyros translates into wheat or grain.
@@Brianabelle7337AL-Astarastani geez, try to control your impulse to bash people over the head with your personal religious beliefs. Nothing drives people away from faith more effectively than people like you driving your point in like a hammer does a nail. Unrequested, at that!
@@Brianabelle7337AL-Astarastani Not the god in the buy bull though that's for sure. No god of mine is a genocidal maniac. Maybe yours is, fits with what the world is that's for sure...
I always wondered how people ended up with large Asian-variety persimmon trees in their backyards in California. Most homeowners don't care for them, so the kind folk will allow elderly Asian women to pick a few from their trees. The trees seem old, so I wonder if they were planted by Asian owners of the land back in the day. There was never much of a market for them in the US, so I can't imagine that they were part of a commercial orchard. A mystery.
@@Cletus_the_Elder I think there’s a decent market for the Asian type, I’ve seen them in supermarkets. In the right spot in California like Santa Barbara, you can literally grow anything, lucky, not like my home Canada.
I am in the LA basin and we have both the small and large types. My folks(Italian born) love them!! Me not so much. You can find them in Asian supermarkets in the SGV.
Yes, the stores in California have two types of persimmons. I think they are Fuyu and Hachaya. The Hachaya ones are much bigger than those native American ones but they have the same astringency when not ripe. We have to leave them on the counter until they are mushy and ripe. The Fuyu type is good even when still firm and only slightly soft.
I’d like to try the native ones. Here in San Diego, CA I grow a big variety of subtropical fruits and also Asian persimmons. Fuyu are non-astringent and can be eaten raw when orange color, and when I get 100 or so we slice and dry them to make the best “fruit chips” imaginable. The other larger persimmons are Hachiya (about 1 lb each) and one must wait until they are completely ripe; cut off the top and eat with a spoon like pudding, best fruit ever! When I lived in Korea the persimmons are a huge part of the culture and prepared many good ways (for thousands of years).
Hello! Thank you! I have learned so much from you. I few years ago, I saw and tasted my first persimmon fruit. I live in eastern Putnam County, TN, and was at Hidden Hollow Park there in early autumn. I came upon a small grove of trees that had red-orangey, and black spotted fruit that had newly fallen ones among the spoiling on the ground with a smell of sour cider in the air, attracting Yellow Jackets. I knew the fruit was Persimmons, and felt if they fell off, they were ripe with sweetness. So I found one fallen not rotting and in tact, undamaged and peeled off some of the skin & tasted the pretty pulp. It was the most unique, mild flowery fruit flavor, and perfect sweet taste and the texture was like a soft, ripe, black plum. I loved it!!!!
My Mom loved these. She grew up in the Depression and they found these, I think at their Granparents in SE Georgia (Brunswick, Alma, Waycross, Blackshear, etc). I did not care for them as a kid. I’ll try them again soon.
Mathew, I made this bread today since I really like persimmon. I have to tell you this is the best persimmon bread I've ever had! Using maple syrup instead of sugar, and browning the butter were real game changers and gave a bunch of flavor. Next time I probably will even toast the pecans first since I like that too. So then thanks very much for this recipe, and it is definitely now in the top row of my favorites!
I planted a Meader persimmon (An American variety purchased from Miller Nurseries, now Stark Bros.) when I first purchased my farm. It gets covered with beautiful fruit each year, so much so, that the branches sometimes break under the weight of all of the fruit. This past year, I purchased 10 American persimmons trees from Musser Nurseries. I plan on grafting the Meader onto them to improve the size of the fruit and because the Meader is such a precocious and heavy bearer.
I have a Yates american persimmon in the back yard, and I also forage a few locally. The best indicator I have found of a ripe persimmon is a white blush on the skin. When the fruit is ripe, some of the sugar will come through the skin, and yeast will begin to grow. Also, the tannins that cause the astringent taste will suppress the yeast. So, when you see the yeast, it indicates the astringent taste is gone.
Love these fruits. It was a staple at my grandmother's table in the fall. Her rule of thumb for harvesting these was to wait for the first frost of the year before heading for the trees on her property.
Yes... I've always heard this regarding persimmons in Arkansas...must wait till a frost...then go next couple of days. I would make a persimmon custard.. so delicious
@@terryenglish7132 Probably depends a lot on where you live. For Virginia, first frost used to be a solid indicator. With the way the climate's been edging hotter, it's not as accurate these days.
@philipjacobs394 As a time indicator, yes. Most were ripe around then here too, back in the day. But everyone I talked to thought that the frost ripened them. Before I realized it didn't, I tried freezer experiments w unripe fruit that did nothing
If you want to find some, try one of those grocery stores that prides itself on being local. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and we have the american persimmons at our local grocery store. Apparently a local farmer also shares our love for the fruit and he grows them inside a greenhouse and sells the extra to our grocery store.
Hi Matthew! Your channel is wonderful. Thank you for teaching us about the persimmon tree. When I was a child, my grandmother would tell me about eating persimmons. The way she described the taste and smell of them intrigued me and I was always on the hunt for one. When we bought our land, 17 years ago, there were three native persimmon trees on the property. I was elated to find them and finally taste one! Keep up the great work!
This is my first time seeing native American persimmons. Here in So Cal where I live I am familiar with two main types, the pear shaped Hychia persimmon which are Very Bitter when unripe. The second type is the Fuyu persimmon, they are a flat shape and are eaten firm like an apple and delicious. Every year in the fall I harvest the Hychia persimmons to make sun dried Hoshigaki, which is a Japanese cultural favorite. I pick the fruit when the color is dark orange but the fruit is still hard. I wash and peel them, then hang on a string from a broom stick, 12 or 15 at a time. With a protective envelope of window screen they are hung in a sunny spot and gently massaged every few days to break up the sugar and moisture inside. After a week or two, depending on the weather, they are ready to eat and will have shrunken to the size of a large prune.
Great idea for preserving persimmons, which grow in large numbers here in California. FYI, the pear-shaped, soft (when ripe) variety is spelled “Hachiya,” if anyone wants to look them up.
Great idea for preserving persimmons, which grow in large numbers here in California. FYI, the pear-shaped, soft (when ripe) variety is spelled “Hachiya,” if anyone wants to look them up.
Growing up we had an American Persimmon tree on our property (I think my dad planted it there). I always hated the fruit because it had a weird taste even when ripe. But as an adult I now know it was simply because I was used to eating overly sweet stuff like cereal and candy. The Texas Persimmon tree produces smaller fruit but they contain a CRAZY sweet black paste and they're ripe in winter. It's rare to find such abundant, easy to gather sugars during winter!
Good channels with good content attract good and interesting people. Thank you all here for your sweet and interesting comments and sharing your memories. It's a joy to read them.
Persimmons are in stores all over Los Angeles. We have the Fuyu and the Hachiya. The Fuyu are smaller and look like a flattened ball. They don’t 2:30 get very soft, and they don’t make your mouth pucker. The Hachiya are larger, elongated and have to be ripe to the point of squishy. Both are delicious.
no, what he's saying is true. persimmons make your mouth pucker if they arent completely ripe yet. ive made the mistake of eating an unripe fuyu once because i was tired of waiting for it to ripen, and it felt like all the moisture in my mouth had evaporated and been replaced with bitter-tasting cotton. so now i don't eat persimmons until i am totally, 100% sure that they're ripe.
The alliteration is very cute. My father says persimmons used to be plentiful in my hometown. I always assumed he was talking about the ones I'm used to seeing in the store. I'm sure they aren't anymore, but at least now I'll recognize one if I see one.
Same! I was wanting to hear why I can't get pawpaw except when I go home to visit😅 I brought some persimmon seeds with me to the Southwest, and they grow decently here.
Our first persimmon tree gave us over 500 persimmons in one season. We froze all we couldn’t eat fresh. The following year there were too few to freeze, but we still had frozen persimmons we enjoyed after being in the freezer for over a year. The process of baking with persimmons seems too messy; we just eat them fresh. This year we’ve eaten all with none to freeze; the squirrels have come to enjoy them as well. Thx for featuring this amazing fruit!
They must not be picked from the tree. The early ripening persimmons will drop to the ground when ripe. If they dropped and are still attached to a stem they are probably not ripe. After frost persimmons will continue dropping as they ripen. As the season progresses and persimmons are still hanging on I’ll give a slight twist and if it falls into my hand it’s usually fine. If it’s still hanging tightly let it go. Sometimes squirrels will knock some down prematurely, these usually still have a stem on. Left on a sunny window sill they’ll eventually ripen.
I have been a medicinal herbalist for over 30 years and enjoy your videos, Matthew. We pick wild persimmons when we find them on our coastal Virginia farm (or while foraging elsewhere). If we don't we won't get any because of the deer problem here. We eat the ripe persimmons or put them in a bag in the freezer. The unripe ones, we put in the fridge and then transfer them to the freezer as they ripen. They can take a while to ripen. Once they are all ready, we make the preserves and/or bake with them. We harvested nine pounds this year leaving some for wildlife The seeds my daughter opened showed spoons.
A friend gave me 2 bags of persimmons. Once they ripened I made jelly. It is delicious on baked salmon. Hard to get your hands on this wonderful fruit! Thanks for the video.
@@allisonangier1631 My grandmother called it preserves which is what I referred to it above. However, what I make is actually classified as a jam. Persimmons are naturally high in pectin and lose some of it as they ripen. Persimmons can be right on the border for acidity for safe waterbathing. I add lemon juice which helps lower the pH and makes the jam safe for waterbathing. The acid also helps the pectin to set (gel). I'd check the acidity first and go from there.
I absolutely positively adore 🥰 Persimmon!!! ( i even love 💕 the name ☺️ ) My Dad introduced me to them when i was young ... we would go hiking 🥾 in the woods & he would ALWAYS find the neatest things to show us! 🙏❤️🩹🙏
Have a loaded Japanese persimmon tree, right now, & picking some today. The ripe fruit tastes like a cross between a mild apple & a pear. Very sweet & yummy! And this variety is not astringent at all. They fully soft-ripen around Thanksgiving & early Dec, perfect holiday timing :) (And I will try your wife's recipe - it sounds delicious!)
I have had both the Asian (baseball size) and the American ( smaller than a golf ball) persimmon. They do not taste the same. The Asian variety is very mild while the American variety has a much stronger persimmon flavor.
" possum fruit" is what we often called them. Mama had us pick and gather everything when we were children , including persimmons. She canned it all . I miss all the plum trees or bushes that we used to have everywhere. I don't see them anymore. Is there a video on the pawpaw fruit? I have several pawpaws growing along the river here in Alabama
I have two trees and I have found it best to harvest late October before the critters bite into them. Cut them right above the sepal and set them in a box. They will be hard as a rock and quite inedible. Check on them every day. The ripening ones will get a darker orange and quickly turn soft. Rinse those ones well, let them dry and put them in the freezer. Take one out at a time and eat them frozen. It’s like the sweetest sorbet or gelato you’ve ever had and they’ll keep for years if the skin is intact.
Found persimmons on a lake property near Louisburg KS. It was hard to get them at just the right time. Only once did we have enough to bake a bread and it tasted good but was very dense. Thanks for letting people know about them. (Kids loved the big seeds!)
when i was young, 7 or 8, my cousins told me a persimmon was a plum and was delicious, this was before it was ripe, my mouth muscles tightened up and my mouth puckered so bad i cant even describe it. My cousins, all sat there laughing their butts off at me.. so i know what they taste like not ripe lol..
I have found unripe persimmon to taste and have the effect of alum. I really appreciate Japanese cured persimmons. Super sweet, fruity, with the consistency of taffy.
I love all varieties of persimmons, really one of my top 10 fruits of all time. They're sweet, delicious, and just all around beautiful fruits because you know how delicious and sweet they'll be when you take a bite or mouthful of the fruit.
Growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina countryside, and at the coast of North Carolina in the sandhills persimmon trees were planted near the house so you could keep an eye on them and pick them right at the perfect time as the commentator is discussing
03:25 - On full screen both saw and heard them. I live in an area (northwest Arkansas) where these trees and the fruits are abundant, especially along roadsides and fence rows. Great tasting stuff! Best gathered off the ground or with a very gentle touch while still on the tree.
I love persimmons. Grew up with a couple trees near my home. When we knew that they were almost ripe, we keep a close watch to be able to harvest them. They are absolutely wonderful made into a jam.
When I lived on our farm in northeast Texas back in the late 60s and early 70s, persimmons were EVERYWHERE. They were literally weeds in the hayfields and pastures. We found that they didn't ripen until after the first hard frost. They would ripen within days after that. We had so many that we couldn't possibly eat them all so we fed them to our pigs in their fermented mix of corn, oats, and the excess milk from our two cows.
I grew up in Indiana, and we always went out and gathered them every fall to make persimmon pudding! I always could smell them as they started to ripen, and I would chase the smell until I found the tree.
From Southern California: Fuju Persimmons are sweet like an apple with a nice crunchy texture ( not soft like other persimmons).I like a little lime juice squeezed over them .
We've got the big permission trees along our river swamp in south Georgia. They fall in August just before archery season. The deer love them. Take a pocket full of rocks with you and occasionally toss them under the trees to attract the deer.
There are a lot of persimmons sold in California during winter months. They are nice and sweet and very delicious. They are not expensive. I love them 😍
I have 1 male tree about 16 + inches diameter and a female about 8 + inches about 30 feet apart and it's usually absolutely loaded with fruit. Deer and wildlife love them too.
@@edstimator1 Must be somewhere or it wouldn't produce. Native persimmons These trees are usually dioecious, meaning they produce either male or female flowers, but not both. Female trees need pollen from male trees to produce fruit. Oriental persimmons These trees can produce female, male, and/or perfect flowers on the same tree. Some oriental varieties can produce fruit from each gender.
@@jimb96828 I have no reason to doubt your assertion. I am just surprised. There are many fruit trees in particular that need a pollinator to produce. I just never thought that persimmons was one of them. Lots of fruit trees in Orange County ca. I'm sure there is another one nearby.
Were in western NC and lost most of or persimmon crop this year after the hurricane. Thank you for pointing out the male / female trees. I always knew some of our trees produced while others didn’t.
I’ve seen them go for over a buck apiece…..Japanese persimmons….I’ve got six trees here in Mississippi….the Vietnamese love them….one of my trees has large apple size.
I did see persimmons sold in stores once, so I bought some. Most of them were very good, but I think one was slightly underripe. But they didn't look like this. They must have been the Japanese persimmons that you mentioned.
@@annep.1905 The cultivated native taste like less flavorful wild. The Japanese are even less flavorful; even missing some of the secondary flavors entirely. Thick skin, thats ok to bite tho . I like the native better. I had a Japanese Persimmon tart at a local gourmet restaurant. Almost no taste even as a concentrated pie filling.
We have those both in the wild as sold in supermarkets in South Brazil, here they are called Caquí. As an American expat, I'm glad you a re doing such a noble work to keep the information available for future genarations regarding our natural resources.
Got one at my work.. Made wine with them one year.. The Best wine I’ve ever made! It didn’t fruit very well this year tho, I think the drought we had messed it up.
When I was a kid, out hunting with my dad, it was cold and misassemble and still a mile from the truck, but then we found a persimmon tree. What a feast!
As a child growing up in the northern part of Etowah County in Alabama, we had a Persimmon Tree in our yard. Yes, we lived in the country on a dirt road. Mom warned us not to eat them until ripe. She explained that there had to first be a frost. However, as a child, I was too tempted. I can confirm what you said about the taste. Double yuck. Green apples have nothing on the terrible taste. Anyway, in the fall, my favorite thing was to gather and eat was persimmons. We never used them in cooking because three children gobbled them up. Thank you for bringing back some sweet memories.
We used to own a farm in central Indiana that had one very large persimmon tree that would be heavy with fruit every fall. The fruit was quite a bit larger than what your video shows. Every year, we would wait until the first heavy frost to check out the tree. The frost seemed to be the signal for the tree to drop its fruit. So we would gather the ripe persimmons off the ground. Those persimmons made some great puddings and breads. Thanks for showing this.
There was a persimmon orchard nearby where I lived in Florida and man this is my favorite fruit. So delicious, especially the really soft ones. I miss them so much.
@@oliverlamie3449 They do not have a long shelf life. Pick off the tree when the skin starts turning spotty and it gets soft, scrape out pulp and put in freezer bag in freezer until you want to eat it. After 20 years of trying to get pawpaws to grow to over 3 foot tall, I got mt second crop. 3 fruit last year, about 12 this year on 2 10-12 foot trees. Lost several to -20 F, weather and people running them over with lawnmower, after removing the fencing before mowing the yard.... so they could mow closer, then they forgot.... and ran them over. Me, I remove the fence, cut around each one immediately and then immediately replace each fence before cutting more of the yard.
All those wild fruits are slowly disappearing. I have never seen any of these trees in my area, though I do hear rumors of where one might be, occasionally. It’s almost like my city goes out of its way to cull them out of the wooded areas.
You can buy persimmons at grocery stores in georgia and Florida almost anytime of the year. Theu even sell the longer persimmons as well as the short squat ones. I know this because i bought some in st. Marys Georgia then drove around the country back and forth from orwgon to Florida multiple times over 3 months until they finally became ripe.
I'm from South América, we call them Caqui, and I thought persimmons were from Asia I personally loathe them, even fully ripe but my mom loved one particular variety, and I tried to get some for her but they're rarely available in here too
I had to go to YT just to LIKE this vid. & TY for ur publication. All my grandparents and my parents have tried persimmons, and after your depiction (shook-picked fresh) I have seen them I believe- tree not noted but fruit galore over a Gopher Tortoise scat & mound EDGE of some oak succession & mesic pine flatwoods- in west centeal Fl.. COOL🎉
My family is from Taiwan and we have a persimmon tree in our backyard here in California. I've always associated persimmons with East Asia, so imagine my surprise to learn that they're also native to the American South! I wish they were more widely loved in the US, they're such lovely fruits.
Yeah, I had persimmons for the first time in Taiwan. They have a couple different kinds and are pretty popular there. I was also surprised to learn that they're from here. The only stores in the US that I find persimmons are Asian markets and, recently, Costco.
Asian gave us kudzu so we're even lol
I have only one persimmon tree in the backyard, this year it gave many buckets of it. I gave away to neighbors and ask them coming over to pick as many as they want.
There are Diospyros (its genus) that are available in Asia tho
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When I was a child in the 1960s, we lived in base housing in Warner Robins, Georgia. The backyard was a huge field, bordered by some woods. There were huge persimmon trees, and we used to pick the ripe fruit after the first freeze. They were really good. Unripe persimmons were used for throwing at our friends, we would sharpen a thin stick and use it to fling at your target. I'm 70years old now but I remember the persimmons. There was also poke salad and wild blackberries growing all over the place. The trees were eventually cut down for building a stadium in 1965. I used to finds lots of arrowheads on the ground. They looked like they just floated up out of the red dirt after rain storms. Thanks for reminding me of that, and the sweet taste of the ripe persimmons!
Hi I am from Warner Robin's. Where did you live my name is Phyllis I went to R.W. Lindsey.
Oh the memories of a nasty knot on your back if you get hit by one of those unripe projectiles 😂
I am 71 and our cellar was full of jars of wild black berry, blueberry, strawberry and grape jellies and jams. We had apple, cherry, trees and would go to SC for peaches and can these also. Would pick branch lettuce in the spring and wilt it with grease, vinegar and onions and have with cornbread. Squirrels, rabbits and venison rounded it out. Those were the good old days of some mighty fine eating and times to grow up in the hills of NC.
We had one in our front yard in Charlotte, North Carolina, Persimmon cookies are delicious.
Holy crap! I guess that's a thing lol. My cousin and I would fling them at the barn from a stick. I thought it was just us😂
We planted a native persimmon tree years ago. Absolutely love the fruit. We never "pick" fruit but it only drops when it's ripe. We gather them in late afternoon so we beat the wildlife to them.
We spread tarps under the tree to keep the soft fruit from picking up debris.
@phil2u48 it's more fun looking for them in the leaves. Reminds me of an Easter egg hunt.
A stick with a small plastic cup screwed to the end will save your back 😊 the hardest part is picking them up. A serving bowl full will make approximately two cups of pulp. Pies and cookies is what I do with them. 👍
@@lyndonwhitson2269 would you mind sharing your pie recipe, we have a tree of Fuyu and I just make cookies and dehydrate them. I would love to try a pie, thanks 😊
I prefer to pick them before they fall. Crunchier. The crows comes for them as soon as they're soft and ours never get to that fall off the ground stage.
i was born and raised in the south, in alabama. my mom saved enough money to bring my grandma over from vietnam, and she quickly planted a persimmon tree in our front yard. we had fresh, ripe persimmons every september and october, so many we had to gift them to neighbors. she used seeds from vietnam, so i had no idea there was an american variety! thank you so much for the informative video
You so pretty
@@asahelkish5809 You're a simp
Love Vietnamese Persimmons.
Don't tell this story to customs about "seeds from outside the US"
I live in Alabama and my grandfather planted persimmon trees in the yard so we could make jam every year
I had a few persimmon trees at a previous home. Across the road was a wooded area with a valley and a creek. In autumn, the ripe persimmons would fall off the two large trees into my front yard, and LOTS of raccoons would come silently up out of the valley in the middle of the night, sit on their little haunches in my yard, hold the persimmons in their front paws, gobble them down. WAY cool! Thanks for sparking a good memory!
Possums also love them.
American persimmons are great. Few put up with finding them when ripe, but a real joy when you find a tree with ripe fruit.
Then why does mine suck all the ass.
Nice fruits. We don't have it in Philippines.
@@orsonzedd Native persimmons have a wide variety in taste and quality. If you want the best tasting ones for your yard, it's best to find a tree with excellent fruit, then take some of the suckers that sprout up by the trunk in the spring and root them in a container, then plant those particular trees in your yard the next year or 2.
Are you sure it’s a good flavor and not just our brains reacting to the high sugar content?
@@antonboldsword3770 Yeah well they all taste like hair.
I just planted several American Persimmon trees in my yard this year and over a dozen in the woods above my house. My local county conservation department had a tree sale in the spring and I bought a bunch of seedlings. I can’t wait until I start getting fruit!
support ur local wildlife. we plant in the city 4 the homeless
My grandma had a rhyme she would always say about persimmons.
Possum up a simmon tree
Raccoon on the ground
Raccoon says y'ol crank you
Throw them simmons down !
I can't hear any mention of persimmons without repeating it in her memory.
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lol your gma was cool. Mine payed child support for a few years while her sister raised me and my 14 yr old mother. I wish she had raised me like she did my brothers (same mom different dad). Wouldn't've happened if gmas husband hadn't taken the easy way out. Things we do reverberate through the generations. You got some good stuff. I didn't. I have to admit, I am jealous.
Watched a raccoon eat the Simmons out of the top of a tree recently. I guess they figured it out.
Thanks. I know a Japanese folk tale, the Monkey and the Crab. The same theme but with a bad twist.
Sounds like the lyrics to the folk song "Bile them Cabbage Down"
I can buy them at Sam's Club in my area.
I grew up with these trees in my yard. Those and sassafras in southeastern NC ARE HEAVENLY
Persimmons are a treat that we like to be selfish with lol. They grow by the creek here and literally provide a quarter of our fruits and veggie intake. Love it
I grew up on a peach orchard in Missouri and have had some incredible tree-ripened fruit unlike everyone who has only eaten store-bought fruit and I STILL remember how incredibly good the last persimmon tasted more than 45 years ago!
Yup, all the persimmons I've had were in rural ozarks area. Outside Mountain Grove, specifically. Amazing
Pawpaw is my favorite fruit, but persimmon is great, too. Kind of a cinnamon taste to it, to me.
The seeds are similar, too.
@curtisgoss2669 Never had paw paw, sounds tasty from what I've read :)
peaches in missouri? We barely can grow them here in tennessee.
Peaches grew at one time in Tennessee. Growing up I lived on a street where peach trees flourished. New home owners over the years have since cut them all down. Of course this was over 40 yrs ago @tribalismblindsthembutnoty124
My mom used to make persimmon pudding. A truly unique and special treat! There's nothing that tastes quite the same
Thanks.for sharing. I'd love to find someone who has this same skill as your mum.
How did you tag a RUclips search??
My Aunt makes a huge batch of persimmon pudding every year and gives it out to family members. It’s one of my favorite treats.
This is such restorative content. I am reminded that this land offers sweetness and nourishment as days grow shorter and colder.
Restorative?!
Before man cut and slashed you could literally live off natures bounty. Still quite a bounty in certain areas.
eden, heaven is right here. Let’s protect it, join others to turn it around (as it was).
F that, we're going to grow red delicious apples GMO'd to have the thickest, waxiest skin for extended shipping
@@Sernival the wax is added after harvesting. We skip it here, save seed for heirlooming crop.
Southern Indiana native here. Lucky enough to have grown up with two big persimmon trees in my home yard, always had gallons upon gallons of persimmon pulp every year, and gave most of it away-and it ended up coming back in part, in the form of desserts shared among neighbors and family! Love persimmons and persimmon pudding,
One I saw frequently growing up in MO was the paw-paw tree. You don't hear about them very often though. www.nps.gov/articles/pawpaw.htm
Yes, you are extremely fortunate to have had persimmons trees. I planted 2 small persimmon trees,
in wide open spaces, here in NJ. The trees grew to 40 ft, but unfortunately the fruits only grew to a quarter size.
A well ripe persimmon is not only delicious, but also divine.
@@maggiechan33 You could try the other variety, which grows smaller and has larger fruit.
@@MarilynOPossum
Thanx a lot, Marilyn !
Since my first comment, I learned that by pruning the vertical branches, I can get big and more fruits.
Come 3/2025, I will definitely buy a tree from Gurney's.
Stay well and Happy Holidays !!!
I just recently found 2 persimmon trees on my property. This spring I will clean around them to get more sunlight. Thanks for the information.
Aka 'fruit of the gods'. We have some persimmons on our property. I've had them both, ripe and not ripe. There's an old wives tale about how their seeds can predict the weather of the upcoming winter. If you open a seed in half, you'll see either one of these: a knife, a fork, or a spoon. In fact they look exactly like little plastic utensils! The knife claims your area will experience a brutally cold winter, one that will 'cut you to the bone'. A fork, a mild winter. A spoon means shovel snow, or more than average precipitation. So far, I found this to be true here!
Never knew that. Will check that out!
@@Brianabelle7337AL-Astarastani Ok, you can believe that, but the etymology of the name 'persimmon' is an Anglicized version of “pessamin”, with the genus name 'Diospyros'. In Greek, Dios translates into gods.Pyros translates into wheat or grain.
I open 5 or 6 here in TN every one had a fork
@@Brianabelle7337AL-Astarastani geez, try to control your impulse to bash people over the head with your personal religious beliefs. Nothing drives people away from faith more effectively than people like you driving your point in like a hammer does a nail. Unrequested, at that!
@@Brianabelle7337AL-Astarastani Not the god in the buy bull though that's for sure. No god of mine is a genocidal maniac. Maybe yours is, fits with what the world is that's for sure...
Here in California, we have both kinds of persimmons. They grow well and produce abundant fruit.
I always wondered how people ended up with large Asian-variety persimmon trees in their backyards in California. Most homeowners don't care for them, so the kind folk will allow elderly Asian women to pick a few from their trees. The trees seem old, so I wonder if they were planted by Asian owners of the land back in the day. There was never much of a market for them in the US, so I can't imagine that they were part of a commercial orchard. A mystery.
@@Cletus_the_Elder I think there’s a decent market for the Asian type, I’ve seen them in supermarkets. In the right spot in California like Santa Barbara, you can literally grow anything, lucky, not like my home Canada.
I am in the LA basin and we have both the small and large types. My folks(Italian born) love them!! Me not so much. You can find them in Asian supermarkets in the SGV.
Yes, the stores in California have two types of persimmons. I think they are Fuyu and Hachaya. The Hachaya ones are much bigger than those native American ones but they have the same astringency when not ripe. We have to leave them on the counter until they are mushy and ripe. The Fuyu type is good even when still firm and only slightly soft.
I’d like to try the native ones. Here in San Diego, CA I grow a big variety of subtropical fruits and also Asian persimmons. Fuyu are non-astringent and can be eaten raw when orange color, and when I get 100 or so we slice and dry them to make the best “fruit chips” imaginable. The other larger persimmons are Hachiya (about 1 lb each) and one must wait until they are completely ripe; cut off the top and eat with a spoon like pudding, best fruit ever! When I lived in Korea the persimmons are a huge part of the culture and prepared many good ways (for thousands of years).
Hello! Thank you! I have learned so much from you. I few years ago, I saw and tasted my first persimmon fruit. I live in eastern Putnam County, TN, and was at Hidden Hollow Park there in early autumn. I came upon a small grove of trees that had red-orangey, and black spotted fruit that had newly fallen ones among the spoiling on the ground with a smell of sour cider in the air, attracting Yellow Jackets. I knew the fruit was Persimmons, and felt if they fell off, they were ripe with sweetness. So I found one fallen not rotting and in tact, undamaged and peeled off some of the skin & tasted the pretty pulp. It was the most unique, mild flowery fruit flavor, and perfect sweet taste and the texture was like a soft, ripe, black plum. I loved it!!!!
My Mom loved these. She grew up in the Depression and they found these, I think at their Granparents in SE Georgia (Brunswick, Alma, Waycross, Blackshear, etc). I did not care for them as a kid. I’ll try them again soon.
My favorite fruit.
I love the persimmon. So delicious.
Mathew, I made this bread today since I really like persimmon. I have to tell you this is the best persimmon bread I've ever had! Using maple syrup instead of sugar, and browning the butter were real game changers and gave a bunch of flavor. Next time I probably will even toast the pecans first since I like that too. So then thanks very much for this recipe, and it is definitely now in the top row of my favorites!
Wow, thank you so much for coming back to comment! So glad this video could help!!
I planted a Meader persimmon (An American variety purchased from Miller Nurseries, now Stark Bros.) when I first purchased my farm. It gets covered with beautiful fruit each year, so much so, that the branches sometimes break under the weight of all of the fruit. This past year, I purchased 10 American persimmons trees from Musser Nurseries. I plan on grafting the Meader onto them to improve the size of the fruit and because the Meader is such a precocious and heavy bearer.
I have a Yates american persimmon in the back yard, and I also forage a few locally. The best indicator I have found of a ripe persimmon is a white blush on the skin. When the fruit is ripe, some of the sugar will come through the skin, and yeast will begin to grow. Also, the tannins that cause the astringent taste will suppress the yeast. So, when you see the yeast, it indicates the astringent taste is gone.
It would probably be pretty easy to make wine out that. I never heard of this fruit before but I wish we had these in Arizona now.
@@davidhorvath66 lol! We're are the only 2 thinking of Persimmon Wine. 🤔 hmm, would make a great country hit song!
Is the yeast safe to eat? Or can you just remove it?
@@Corgio22 Now you've got me thinking of new uses for all that persimmon pulp in my freezer.
Love these fruits. It was a staple at my grandmother's table in the fall. Her rule of thumb for harvesting these was to wait for the first frost of the year before heading for the trees on her property.
Yes... I've always heard this regarding persimmons in Arkansas...must wait till a frost...then go next couple of days. I would make a persimmon custard.. so delicious
I heard the frost thing too. Its totally wrong. It was 85° + here when some were ripe and falling off the trees.
@@terryenglish7132 Probably depends a lot on where you live. For Virginia, first frost used to be a solid indicator. With the way the climate's been edging hotter, it's not as accurate these days.
YES! Like collards
@philipjacobs394 As a time indicator, yes. Most were ripe around then here too, back in the day. But everyone I talked to thought that the frost ripened them. Before I realized it didn't, I tried freezer experiments w unripe fruit that did nothing
I find these in the grocery stores every fall....and now is the time. 😋
They are not American persimmons, they are Japanese.
Definitely Japanese persimmons. American persimmons have no shelf life. He explains why in the video.
Not the wild persimmon
If you want to find some, try one of those grocery stores that prides itself on being local. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and we have the american persimmons at our local grocery store. Apparently a local farmer also shares our love for the fruit and he grows them inside a greenhouse and sells the extra to our grocery store.
@@arevolvingdoor3836
My neighbor put it in front of their gate and gave it FREE ...
Persimmon cookies 🍪 are the best in the winter❄️❄️🔥🔥 time!!
Hi Matthew!
Your channel is wonderful. Thank you for teaching us about the persimmon tree.
When I was a child, my grandmother would tell me about eating persimmons. The way she described the taste and smell of them intrigued me and I was always on the hunt for one.
When we bought our land, 17 years ago, there were three native persimmon trees on the property. I was elated to find them and finally taste one!
Keep up the great work!
This is my first time seeing native American persimmons. Here in So Cal where I live I am familiar with two main types, the pear shaped Hychia persimmon which are Very Bitter when unripe. The second type is the Fuyu persimmon, they are a flat shape and are eaten firm like an apple and delicious. Every year in the fall I harvest the Hychia persimmons to make sun dried Hoshigaki, which is a Japanese cultural favorite. I pick the fruit when the color is dark orange but the fruit is still hard. I wash and peel them, then hang on a string from a broom stick, 12 or 15 at a time. With a protective envelope of window screen they are hung in a sunny spot and gently massaged every few days to break up the sugar and moisture inside. After a week or two, depending on the weather, they are ready to eat and will have shrunken to the size of a large prune.
Great idea for preserving persimmons, which grow in large numbers here in California.
FYI, the pear-shaped, soft (when ripe) variety is spelled “Hachiya,” if anyone wants to look them up.
Great idea for preserving persimmons, which grow in large numbers here in California.
FYI, the pear-shaped, soft (when ripe) variety is spelled “Hachiya,” if anyone wants to look them up.
Growing up we had an American Persimmon tree on our property (I think my dad planted it there). I always hated the fruit because it had a weird taste even when ripe. But as an adult I now know it was simply because I was used to eating overly sweet stuff like cereal and candy. The Texas Persimmon tree produces smaller fruit but they contain a CRAZY sweet black paste and they're ripe in winter. It's rare to find such abundant, easy to gather sugars during winter!
Good channels with good content attract good and interesting people. Thank you all here for your sweet and interesting comments and sharing your memories. It's a joy to read them.
Persimmons are in stores all over Los Angeles. We have the Fuyu and the Hachiya. The Fuyu are smaller and look like a flattened ball. They don’t 2:30 get very soft, and they don’t make your mouth pucker. The Hachiya are larger, elongated and have to be ripe to the point of squishy. Both are delicious.
Yes, I didn’t understand the “not sold in stores” claim.
@@ThousandSunAngerthe Native species isn't sold in stores. Typically.
Those are both Asian persimmon species.
no, what he's saying is true. persimmons make your mouth pucker if they arent completely ripe yet. ive made the mistake of eating an unripe fuyu once because i was tired of waiting for it to ripen, and it felt like all the moisture in my mouth had evaporated and been replaced with bitter-tasting cotton. so now i don't eat persimmons until i am totally, 100% sure that they're ripe.
He addresses that. If you'd watched for 2 more minutes, you'd see exactly what he's talking about. 4:34
Completely different flavor too
The alliteration is very cute. My father says persimmons used to be plentiful in my hometown. I always assumed he was talking about the ones I'm used to seeing in the store. I'm sure they aren't anymore, but at least now I'll recognize one if I see one.
Never heard of them. At first I thought you were going to talk about pawpaw fruit. Glad I clicked to watch.
@@cuda6872 yes, me too. Maybe a video sometime on pawpaw? Thanks! 🙂👍
Same!
I was wanting to hear why I can't get pawpaw except when I go home to visit😅
I brought some persimmon seeds with me to the Southwest, and they grow decently here.
Ate a pawpaw for the first time 2 months ago. The seeds look very much like the persimmon seeds he showed.
@@Lazy_Fish_Keeper Pawpaw fruit spoils very quickly so very unsuitable for transport to and sale in supermarkets.
Man, I love pawpaws! Very rare treat.
Our first persimmon tree gave us over 500 persimmons in one season. We froze all we couldn’t eat fresh. The following year there were too few to freeze, but we still had frozen persimmons we enjoyed after being in the freezer for over a year. The process of baking with persimmons seems too messy; we just eat them fresh. This year we’ve eaten all with none to freeze; the squirrels have come to enjoy them as well. Thx for featuring this amazing fruit!
Thank you for watching!
They’re good dried too!
I read that they are astringent. Wich make you not poop. Is this true?
They must not be picked from the tree. The early ripening persimmons will drop to the ground when ripe. If they dropped and are still attached to a stem they are probably not ripe. After frost persimmons will continue dropping as they ripen. As the season progresses and persimmons are still hanging on I’ll give a slight twist and if it falls into my hand it’s usually fine. If it’s still hanging tightly let it go. Sometimes squirrels will knock some down prematurely, these usually still have a stem on. Left on a sunny window sill they’ll eventually ripen.
They could be made into wine if you need to free up freezer space
My husband's great aunt made one of my absolute favorite desserts:persimmon pudding (kind if like a fruity sheet cake). Unbelievably delicious!
Thank you!
We had two Persimmon trees in our yard. They make the most delicious cookies. My favorite.
Persimmon is packed with vitamin A for the eyes! It's crunchy sweet. Love it!
I have been a medicinal herbalist for over 30 years and enjoy your videos, Matthew. We pick wild persimmons when we find them on our coastal Virginia farm (or while foraging elsewhere). If we don't we won't get any because of the deer problem here. We eat the ripe persimmons or put them in a bag in the freezer. The unripe ones, we put in the fridge and then transfer them to the freezer as they ripen. They can take a while to ripen. Once they are all ready, we make the preserves and/or bake with them. We harvested nine pounds this year leaving some for wildlife The seeds my daughter opened showed spoons.
A friend gave me 2 bags of persimmons. Once they ripened I made jelly. It is delicious on baked salmon. Hard to get your hands on this wonderful fruit! Thanks for the video.
Did you add something to the recipe for your jelly? I have attempted it and could never get it to thicken. I suspect that persimmons lack pectin?
@@allisonangier1631 My grandmother called it preserves which is what I referred to it above. However, what I make is actually classified as a jam. Persimmons are naturally high in pectin and lose some of it as they ripen. Persimmons can be right on the border for acidity for safe waterbathing. I add lemon juice which helps lower the pH and makes the jam safe for waterbathing. The acid also helps the pectin to set (gel). I'd check the acidity first and go from there.
Gathered just over 100#’s this year. Gonna make some “simmon shine”!
There's nothing out there that keeps on making like persimmons!
Can you freeze and sell me some in Michigan?
My brother made a liquor from persimmons. We named it Persnickety. It was awesome! I shook one of his trees recently. & got 7.
😂
I'd buy a bottle of that
That's sounds amazing!
👌 nice
I make persimmon wine every year my friends love, that stuff will make an unattractive person cute!
Permsimmon are available in my local grocery store in Colorado. Seasonally, yes, but they are available.
I absolutely positively adore 🥰 Persimmon!!! ( i even love 💕 the name ☺️ ) My Dad introduced me to them when i was young ... we would go hiking 🥾 in the woods & he would ALWAYS find the neatest things to show us!
🙏❤️🩹🙏
Have a loaded Japanese persimmon tree, right now, & picking some today. The ripe fruit tastes like a cross between a mild apple & a pear. Very sweet & yummy! And this variety is not astringent at all. They fully soft-ripen around Thanksgiving & early Dec, perfect holiday timing :)
(And I will try your wife's recipe - it sounds delicious!)
Where are you ? In coastal Delaware, Our small native ones taste like sweeter apricots w out the sour note.
I have had both the Asian (baseball size) and the American ( smaller than a golf ball) persimmon. They do not taste the same. The Asian variety is very mild while the American variety has a much stronger persimmon flavor.
@justnorthofthebend9152 Yes, that is right :)
@@terryenglish7132 Coastal NC. But I know people grow them as far as NJ.
I'm from Eastern Kentucky and in the fall we would look for ripe persimmons and pawpaws ! I loved both !!!
I live in Maryland, I have a persimmon tree , I share them with friends and family, we love them, they're so sweet.
The great lakes region has a bounty of edible and medicinal things. With the right tools and nothing but time I could eat year round.
My family always says "God must've rested His "hand" here as He created everything."
" possum fruit" is what we often called them.
Mama had us pick and gather everything when we were children , including persimmons. She canned it all .
I miss all the plum trees or bushes that we used to have everywhere. I don't see them anymore.
Is there a video on the pawpaw fruit? I have several pawpaws growing along the river here in Alabama
Not yet, I haven't found a good patch of pawpaws to film.
Never had a persimmon.
Esp the plums!
@@LegacyWildernessAcademy
I have about a dozen growing on the river bank in front of my house. They are about 20-25 ' high
Persimmons are so lovely! 🌿 Thanks for sharing this knowledge about the native variety.
They are "fruits for the gods".
My friend gathers them on bed sheets and makes pudding with them for Christmas delicious
I have two trees and I have found it best to harvest late October before the critters bite into them. Cut them right above the sepal and set them in a box. They will be hard as a rock and quite inedible. Check on them every day. The ripening ones will get a darker orange and quickly turn soft. Rinse those ones well, let them dry and put them in the freezer. Take one out at a time and eat them frozen. It’s like the sweetest sorbet or gelato you’ve ever had and they’ll keep for years if the skin is intact.
Found persimmons on a lake property near Louisburg KS. It was hard to get them at just the right time. Only once did we have enough to bake a bread and it tasted good but was very dense. Thanks for letting people know about them. (Kids loved the big seeds!)
when i was young, 7 or 8, my cousins told me a persimmon was a plum and was delicious, this was before it was ripe, my mouth muscles tightened up and my mouth puckered so bad i cant even describe it. My cousins, all sat there laughing their butts off at me.. so i know what they taste like not ripe lol..
I was on the receiving end of the same joke nearly fifty years ago.
I have found unripe persimmon to taste and have the effect of alum.
I really appreciate Japanese cured persimmons.
Super sweet, fruity, with the consistency of taffy.
What Japanese persimmon would you recommend for persimmon pudding?
Love persimmons
My neighbor had these and apricots. Attracted so many wild animals.
I love all varieties of persimmons, really one of my top 10 fruits of all time. They're sweet, delicious, and just all around beautiful fruits because you know how delicious and sweet they'll be when you take a bite or mouthful of the fruit.
Growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina countryside, and at the coast of North Carolina in the sandhills persimmon trees were planted near the house so you could keep an eye on them and pick them right at the perfect time as the commentator is discussing
Just don't trick you girl friend into eating a raw unripe one 😂😂😂❤ ROANOKE RAPIDS NC 😂
Persimmons are big in asia. So epic to hear we have our own in the USA!
03:25 - On full screen both saw and heard them. I live in an area (northwest Arkansas) where these trees and the fruits are abundant, especially along roadsides and fence rows. Great tasting stuff! Best gathered off the ground or with a very gentle touch while still on the tree.
I see your casserole dish and your oven look well used I can tell you're my kind of people, The bread looks wonderful I wish I could taste it!
I love persimmons. Grew up with a couple trees near my home. When we knew that they were almost ripe, we keep a close watch to be able to harvest them. They are absolutely wonderful made into a jam.
When I lived on our farm in northeast Texas back in the late 60s and early 70s, persimmons were EVERYWHERE. They were literally weeds in the hayfields and pastures. We found that they didn't ripen until after the first hard frost. They would ripen within days after that. We had so many that we couldn't possibly eat them all so we fed them to our pigs in their fermented mix of corn, oats, and the excess milk from our two cows.
Happy pigs!
I grew up in Indiana, and we always went out and gathered them every fall to make persimmon pudding! I always could smell them as they started to ripen, and I would chase the smell until I found the tree.
a really good persimmon is a wonderful thing!
From Southern California: Fuju Persimmons are sweet like an apple with a nice crunchy texture ( not soft like other persimmons).I like a little lime juice squeezed over them .
TY and 4 the great comments
This ×as very lovely to stumble upon
some foods are only to be eaten by people who gather them in nature. its luxury and i love it
We've got the big permission trees along our river swamp in south Georgia. They fall in August just before archery season. The deer love them. Take a pocket full of rocks with you and occasionally toss them under the trees to attract the deer.
I so love persimmons mmmm… I need to add some to my backyard food forest 🤤
I want a backyard food forest!!!
I didn't think I needed to know how to process persimmons, but I was hooked by the alliteration! Really, thanks for the whole video.
persimmons are my favorite! I’m very lucky to have them stocked in my grocery store when they’re in season. Just bought some last night :)
There are a lot of persimmons sold in California during winter months. They are nice and sweet and very delicious. They are not expensive. I love them 😍
I’ve only seen the Fuyu verity (non astringent) for sale in SoCal.
One of my favorite fruits. I love bothe types❤
Those are Japanese varieties, the wild one he is talking about in the video is different.
so good seeing your loving family. thank you for sharing this recipe. i really have to wait that long to forage my 1st persimmons, ha. blessings all
One of my Aunt's use to make the most wounderful persimmon bread. I miss that.
You got me wanting to plant a persimmon tree. I have fond memories of my grandparents’ persimmon trees.
We would pick them and make cookies from the pulp. It was a favorite Christmas cookie for my kids. Love, love, love them!
I have 1 male tree about 16 + inches diameter and a female about 8 + inches about 30 feet apart and it's usually absolutely loaded with fruit. Deer and wildlife love them too.
I didn't know there was a difference. We only have one tree and it is a heavy producer without a fertilizer variety nearby that I'm aware of.
@@edstimator1yes there are makes and females. Google says they can change. Don't know that for sure.
@@edstimator1 Must be somewhere or it wouldn't produce. Native persimmons
These trees are usually dioecious, meaning they produce either male or female flowers, but not both. Female trees need pollen from male trees to produce fruit.
Oriental persimmons
These trees can produce female, male, and/or perfect flowers on the same tree. Some oriental varieties can produce fruit from each gender.
@@jimb96828 I have no reason to doubt your assertion. I am just surprised. There are many fruit trees in particular that need a pollinator to produce. I just never thought that persimmons was one of them. Lots of fruit trees in Orange County ca. I'm sure there is another one nearby.
Were in western NC and lost most of or persimmon crop this year after the hurricane. Thank you for pointing out the male / female trees. I always knew some of our trees produced while others didn’t.
I absolutely loved the recurring P words in the "How to Process Persimmons" section
You mean the alliteration.
Haha thank you, glad you enjoyed the video!
I remember my mother making persimmon jelly nearly fifty years ago..
I'm from italy and here persimmons are really popular. We have also some really big cultivar that gives persimmons the size of an orange
Delicious! I was introduced to them about two yrs. ago. I am in New Jersey.
A Filipino lady has a tree.
Thank you for the presentation.
Thank you Legacy Wilderness for all your videos!
Thanks for watching! I appreciate the support!
I’ve seen them go for over a buck apiece…..Japanese persimmons….I’ve got six trees here in Mississippi….the Vietnamese love them….one of my trees has large apple size.
Mississippi native here love eating them and have been tricked into eating a green one .😂😂
I did see persimmons sold in stores once, so I bought some. Most of them were very good, but I think one was slightly underripe. But they didn't look like this. They must have been the Japanese persimmons that you mentioned.
Yup. Our native persimmons don't make it to stores.
@@7owlfthrMust be Acme vs Winn Dixie. The cultivated native ones are here in Delaware, as well as the Japanese ones too.
@@terryenglish7132 So do American persimmons taste like Japanese persimmons?
@@annep.1905 The cultivated native taste like less flavorful wild. The Japanese are even less flavorful; even missing some of the secondary flavors entirely. Thick skin, thats ok to bite tho . I like the native better. I had a Japanese Persimmon tart at a local gourmet restaurant. Almost no taste even as a concentrated pie filling.
@terryenglish7132 Thanks! I hope I can try a U.S. persimmon one of these days!
We have those both in the wild as sold in supermarkets in South Brazil, here they are called Caquí. As an American expat, I'm glad you a re doing such a noble work to keep the information available for future genarations regarding our natural resources.
I tried some wild persimmons from a tree behind a car dealership. They’re so amazing and naturally sweet
Got one at my work.. Made wine with them one year.. The Best wine I’ve ever made! It didn’t fruit very well this year tho, I think the drought we had messed it up.
When I was a kid, out hunting with my dad, it was cold and misassemble and still a mile from the truck, but then we found a persimmon tree. What a feast!
I hate it when it misassembles.
I love persimmons. I planted a tree. I hope I live long enough to eat fruit from it.
As a child growing up in the northern part of Etowah County in Alabama, we had a Persimmon Tree in our yard. Yes, we lived in the country on a dirt road.
Mom warned us not to eat them until ripe. She explained that there had to first be a frost. However, as a child, I was too tempted. I can confirm what you said about the taste. Double yuck.
Green apples have nothing on the terrible taste.
Anyway, in the fall, my favorite thing was to gather and eat was persimmons. We never used them in cooking because three children gobbled them up.
Thank you for bringing back some sweet memories.
We used to own a farm in central Indiana that had one very large persimmon tree that would be heavy with fruit every fall. The fruit was quite a bit larger than what your video shows. Every year, we would wait until the first heavy frost to check out the tree. The frost seemed to be the signal for the tree to drop its fruit. So we would gather the ripe persimmons off the ground. Those persimmons made some great puddings and breads. Thanks for showing this.
There was a persimmon orchard nearby where I lived in Florida and man this is my favorite fruit. So delicious, especially the really soft ones. I miss them so much.
Mulberries are so good and so fragile too. My MIL had a persimmon tree and would make persimmon cookies.
6:50 this is where he proceeds to push the pulp through the prodigious perforations
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*posted up pondering the position of precariously placed persimmons he previously put on the porch
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Peter piper picked a peck of plump persimmons. How many plump persimmons did Peter piper pick?
P for Persimmons!
This "gentle" shaking is like Dumbledore "calmly" asking. 🤣
She’s so cute ❤ glad she liked the bread. Sounds awesome man.
My mother made persimmon pudding which was not pudding but similar to your nut bread. They were a delicious Christmas treat.
I don't remember eating a ripe persimmon, but I did like ripe pawpaw fruit. And those are kind of hard to find too.
Had some pawpaw seedlings and this year I harvested my first six this year.About 50 years.
I've seen persimmons in stores, never pawpaw
@@oliverlamie3449 They do not have a long shelf life. Pick off the tree when the skin starts turning spotty and it gets soft, scrape out pulp and put in freezer bag in freezer until you want to eat it. After 20 years of trying to get pawpaws to grow to over 3 foot tall, I got mt second crop. 3 fruit last year, about 12 this year on 2 10-12 foot trees. Lost several to -20 F, weather and people running them over with lawnmower, after removing the fencing before mowing the yard.... so they could mow closer, then they forgot.... and ran them over. Me, I remove the fence, cut around each one immediately and then immediately replace each fence before cutting more of the yard.
All those wild fruits are slowly disappearing. I have never seen any of these trees in my area, though I do hear rumors of where one might be, occasionally. It’s almost like my city goes out of its way to cull them out of the wooded areas.
@@shdwbnndbyyt I've only seen pawpaw trees out in the country or the woods of eastern Kentucky.
You can buy persimmons at grocery stores in georgia and Florida almost anytime of the year. Theu even sell the longer persimmons as well as the short squat ones. I know this because i bought some in st. Marys Georgia then drove around the country back and forth from orwgon to Florida multiple times over 3 months until they finally became ripe.
The first time I ever tasted persimmons was in Miami FL and I fell in love.❤
Yep, bought some from Costco in Georgia. I have plenty on my property but they’re tiny
You can buy fuyu and hachiya varieties, but if you will never see american persimmons unless at a farmers market
Taste approved by Georgia!
I'm from South América, we call them Caqui, and I thought persimmons were from Asia
I personally loathe them, even fully ripe but my mom loved one particular variety, and I tried to get some for her but they're rarely available in here too
I had to go to YT just to LIKE this vid.
& TY for ur publication. All my grandparents and my parents have tried persimmons, and after your depiction (shook-picked fresh) I have seen them I believe- tree not noted but fruit galore over a Gopher Tortoise scat & mound EDGE of some oak succession & mesic pine flatwoods- in west centeal Fl.. COOL🎉
I used to eat persimmon as a kid and wasn't worried about my blood sugar.