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sandals
Cold really ripened up the persimmons bout to get in a stand
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What are you going to do with them? Persimmon wine?
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Dafish
Don;t take the deers food, they love persimmons
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bverboy
very tasty
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90acres
Good eating
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coyotehunter
Making me hungry
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sandals
Dafish said:
Don;t take the deers food, they love persimmons
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I eat as many as I can in the stand and spit the seeds in every direction.

Brought a couple extra bags back ... If I can figure a better way to seperate the seeds I might try saving them to plant.

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If I cook them to soften the pulp will it help seperate the seeds? Will the seeds still be viable?

Any advice for seperating the seeds out?
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wingman
My step mom used to make persimmon bread but I have no idea how she separated pulp from seeds.
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gurgalunas
Take a glass bottle, fill 1/3 with water, add seeds, and shake the hell out of it. Like a Shatto milk bottle.

If you let the fruit go past ripe, the seeds come out cleaner, less shaking...

Cold stratification is needed to sprout. When the roots emerge, they are black. Dont think they are rotting. Pot up or direct plant.
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ours don't have any on our trees for some reason
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tinhorn said:
ours don't have any on our trees for some reason
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I don't think they drop every year. Similar to oak trees and acorns.
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I thought only female trees drop. Male trees won’t produce fruit.
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sandals
Bootheel Boy said:
I don't think they drop every year. Similar to oak trees and acorns.
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I've got about a hundred of them in an area. Most dont fruit but every couple years.

Others fruit every year.

The males not at all.
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gurgalunas said:
Take a glass bottle, fill 1/3 with water, add seeds, and shake the hell out of it. Like a Shatto milk bottle.

If you let the fruit go past ripe, the seeds come out cleaner, less shaking...

Cold stratification is needed to sprout. When the roots emerge, they are black. Dont think they are rotting. Pot up or direct plant.
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I was aware of the need for stratification. I like that idea. Going to try some quart or half gallon Mason jars to shake them.

You think I'll sterilize the seeds if I boil them?
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sandals said:
I was aware of the need for stratification. I like that idea. Going to try some quart or half gallon Mason jars to shake them.

You think I'll sterilize the seeds if I boil them?
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Youd be walking a fine line if there was any chance at all of blanching the pulp off but not hurting the seed. I've always done mine the hard way. It would suck to go through all the work only to find out your seeds were dead...

Or you could check the piles of **** or coyote **** in the area. They will have cleaned off some seeds for you.
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bverboy
loaded and bent over on my place and we have a good crop every year... got one tree that produces bigger fruit about twice as big as all the others and taste twice as good:rockon::rockon::rockon::rockon::rockon::rockon:
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They can be processed with a Victorio Strainer if you sand down the nylon spiral center core so the seeds will pass through....and you can graft larger, cold hardy Russian variety cuttings, such as Rosseyanka persimmons, onto our native trees plus some of the Asian varieties are now being bred to be more cold hardy.

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Think I found a male persimmon today

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tinhorn said:
ours don't have any on our trees for some reason
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Might be male trees
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Uncircumcised
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