A Comin' and A Goin'

[_X7]

to the Persimmon trees. The last of the fruit is just about gone. Two trees were plnted back in the 40's as a food source for the farmer who planted them. Now it is the deer enjoying the bounty.

[Tarhunt]

There's a bunch of persimmons on my mom's farm and the deer are in there alot except, when I'm hunting there. 

[LPJR]

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1 minute ago, Tarhunt said:

There's a bunch of persimmons on my mom's farm and the deer are in there alot except, when I'm hunting there. 

I rarely see them in the daytime. The old chicken coop I hunt is where the camera is mounted. The days I'm in there I won't see much at all. The days I'm not...well

[hammer4reel]

Persimmons are deer crack.

They will go miles to eat them when they are ripe.

IMO they are the most sought after fruit tree

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2 hours ago, hammer4reel said:

Persimmons are deer crack.

They will go miles to eat them when they are ripe.

IMO they are the most sought after fruit tree

I wish I could import some in to keep the deer coming. A long time ago the state land north side of Spruce Run used to have a bunch of wild persimmon trees, but the deer preferred the crabappples that were also there when I was hunting in the fall. The persimmons that made it to the ground were green and the deer didn't touch them. 

Here the persimmons ripen and start falling in mid December as ripe purple fruit until the middle of January. The leaves would be gone from the trees and the fruit would stay attached in bunches forever it seemed.

[Bonefreak]

My pals property down in WV has a few persimmon trees along the ridge tops and the deer and turkey key on them as a food source in November. It's always cool to find a new tree that we havnt yet discovered......the trees bark is looks like the skin of an alligator  or something!!

The pic w my xbow is my record persimmon tree I hav ever found!

 

[Rusty]

Nice video X7, they like those persimmons.  

[hammer4reel]

9 hours ago, _X7 said:

I wish I could import some in to keep the deer coming. A long time ago the state land north side of Spruce Run used to have a bunch of wild persimmon trees, but the deer preferred the crabappples that were also there when I was hunting in the fall. The persimmons that made it to the ground were green and the deer didn't touch them. 

Here the persimmons ripen and start falling in mid December as ripe purple fruit until the middle of January. The leaves would be gone from the trees and the fruit would stay attached in bunches forever it seemed.

All persimmon trees I hunted were orange when ripened.

and usually they were ripe in October . Trees held fruit for about a month after that

[Live to Hunt]

4 minutes ago, Rusty said:

Nice video X7, they like those persimmons.  

[tick trawler]

This thread has some good pictures of mature persimmon trees, so I thought I would add some summer pictures of persimmon leaves, flowers, and fruitlets.   The first picture is a good example of persimmon leaves and flowers.  This tree is a claypool A118 otherwise known as elmo.  The second picture is of a mature Prok persimmon in late stages of flowering, with some fruitlets.  In the third picture is one of my persimmon grafts that survived.  It was the middle of June before the buds burst letting me know the graft was alive.  All sprouts below the graft union need to be periodically removed or else the scion will not take.

[tick trawler]

This is a handful of "Lehman's Delight" aka "100-46" persimmons from one of my trees.  They have good flavor but the skin is thicker than some varieties.  These hold onto the tree too tightly to be of much use for deer hunters, although they do ripen in late October.  I only recommend "Prok" at this point for deer hunters planting only a couple grafted American persimmon trees (Diospyros Virginiana) for hunting in northwestern NJ because they drop from middle of September to early November.  Asian persimmon varieties (Diospyros Kaki) will not survive here.  Choose a persimmon hardy to zone 5 such as Prok.

It should again be noted that persimmon is much less tolerant of damage to the base and trunk of the tree than apple or pear trees.  For this reason and a few others, grafted persimmon varieties are challenging to transplant successfully.  They will take longer to bear useful crops than apple or pear.  For those considering planting persimmon, it is more cost effective to plant seedling persimmon in volume in tree tubes and then graft onto the survivors after a few years of their establishment.

[Livesintrees]

It’s a labor of love. I have a few planted. Hopefully a few more years and they’ll be producing 

[Mixbaghunter]

I have always seen green ones or yellow. This year in my spot the deer where all over them .I was thinking light year for acorns. 

[JFC1]

On 1/19/2019 at 6:43 AM, Bonefreak said:

My pals property down in WV has a few persimmon trees along the ridge tops and the deer and turkey key on them as a food source in November. It's always cool to find a new tree that we havnt yet discovered......the trees bark is looks like the skin of an alligator  or something!!

The pic w my xbow is my record persimmon tree I hav ever found!

 

Yeah that's a phat persimmon tree!!