Persimmons - Meet the Cultivar - 01 - Yates (Diospyros virginiana) American Persimmon
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Here we take a look at the Yates American persimmon, a classic cultivar with a BIG fruit, prolific bearing, and delicious flavor. This is whatever is being called "Yates" in the nursery trade. This is sometimes equated with the cultivar "Juhl" however this cultivar is thought to be separate from Yates.
Thanks for the nice clear video capture of that nice looking tree with fruit, those are some clean looking persimmons, too. I just bought two Yates and two Prok trees, can't wait till they grow large.
Yates is exceptional, I also really like ruby and early golden. Early golden is probably my all time favorite of the virginiana. If you do not have this one you should acquire it as I think you would love it.
Does your Early Golden have male flowers? I had heard it tastes great but can throw some male flowers that might make it and surrounding persimmons seeded.
@@GardeningwithZiggy I have never noticed but I imagine it does. I have so many persimmons planted and in the wild surrounding me that I have only seen a seedless persimmon fruit once or twice. Personally I do not mind the seeds but I suppose many might. Early golden has the richest flavor to my taste, I really like ruby for its large size fruits and later ripening. Most years early golden and yates ripen about the same time beginning at the end of August or 1st of Sept. Ruby usually starts ripening towards the middle to end of Sept.
That sounds delicious 😋
it really is like candy. other varieties of American persimmon have more caramel/brown sugar tones.
Woohoo! I hope Meader is on the list for upcoming videos
I will try to find someone who has Meader. That's one I'm not growing. I do have Yates, A-33, Barbara's Blush, Prok, Elmo, and well. that's all for pure Americans
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These look a lot like my Prok in terms of shape. I thought Yates was a squatter shape, like Barbra's Blush, 100-46, etc., but I guess they're rounder than I expected. Beautifully ripened.
It varies somewhat. Some of them are long, almost like Geneva Long, but not as dramatic. Some are more squat, more oblate, most are fairly acorn shaped
Asian persimmons are sweet, I wish you did a better job differentiating the taste between asian and American persimmons.
Thank you!
It's intriguing that you don't have seeds being further north than me and in the so called 90 chromosome territory. Mine fruited for the first time and it had seeds. I'm just south of the Ohio river in Kentucky so maybe we have 90 chromosome here. Anyways I'm totally enjoying your channel and it's a wealth of knowledge.
According to a genetic study, kentucky has both 90 and 60 types wild depending on county ( Bullitt county had both, Franklin County had 60s and barren county had 60s)
Nice, which is better, yates or yates/juhl?
nice shirt. I planted a prok Persimmon a couple years ago. Do you have any experience with that variety? If so that'd be awesome if you did a "Meet the Cultivar" on that one :)
Is yates the same as juhl/yates?
Would you say that it’s your earliest ripening American variety that you’re growing?
Do you grow any other varieties of D. VIRGINIANA besides Yates?
Where to buy Yets tree?
Do they drop on their own?
I don't believe alcohol does anything to remove the astringency from American persimmons. I think those persimmons would have lost their astringency just as well if you hadn't added any alcohol, i.e. I think they were close enough to losing their astringency all on their own. I've used alcohol to remove astringency from still firm PCA Asian persimmons, and it has worked very well, but I've tried it with at least one hybrid persimmon without success. Next time maybe try an experiment with two containers, one with alcohol and one without, and see if it makes a difference. I don't believe it helps any with American persimmons.
Cool.
I will experiment and do an erratum video with the results.
Which persimmons are non hybrid?
@@IAmHisBeloved5 There aren't any persimmons that will come true to seed if that's what you're asking. All persimmons (including wild persimmons) are "hybrid" in that sense, although that terminology wouldn't normally be used with tree fruits.
What state and zone are you in?
I'm in Zone 6a; Massachusetts, I only mentioned it briefly at the end of the video; I'll edit the description to include location
Big seeds, minimum of four per fruit, and it's stringy pulp make this cultivar difficult to use for anything. There are no other persimmon trees AFAIK for miles and miles here.
I'm looking purchase seeds or plants of this Yates persimmon if anyone knows where I can get some!
Did you find any?
@@IAmHisBeloved5 I did but they didn't sprout!
@@IAmHisBeloved5 I endup buying a Yates persimmon plant and soon I'll be buying some Prok persimmon too.