Persimmon BONANZA: fruit from our family of Persimmon trees

check out our family of Persimmon trees and the fruit they produced!! We just started our food forest, and these Persimmon trees are young. But the variety of trees are showing their shape (compact or tall), the fruit’s flavor (flavor, astringency, size), fruit production, and more! See what’s what!!
TONs of info on persimmon here and you wont be drowned by ads ;) https://heppy.org/persimmon

this is part 1 of a 2 part series filmed Fall 2019. we eat these fruit in part 2.
Part 2: Persimmon CANDY: this fruit is like candy!!!    • Persimmon CANDY: eating persimmon fruit th...  

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00:00 – bla bla bla intro
02:00 – Nikitas Gift Persimmon
04:20 – identifying ripe Persimmon fruit
05:30 – eating a Nikitas Gift Persimmon (how to eat Persimmon fruit)
05:36 – Wase Fuyu "Matsumoto" Asian Persimmon
06:45 – Rosseyanka Persimmon
07:50 – Fuyu (Fuyugaki) Persimmon
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PERSIMMON TREE
the Persimmon tree is native to North America, and grows very well in zone 7. the Persimmon tree is a forgiving, versatile and low maintenance fruit tree. it grows in Zone 4 to 9 (NOT all persimmon varieties grow in chilly-willy, zone 4). its long taproot makes it good for erosion control. some varieties are more visually appealing – the Nakitas Gift is a short stocky tree with beautiful shinny dark green leaves. on the other hand, our Wase Fuyu (Matsumoto) Persimmon grows … kind of funky and small and gangly but produced about 60 blooms at only 3-4 years old (we picked-off all but 5 blooms).

the fruit’s nutritional value is OUTSTANDING. according to one NIH article: "Persimmon is naturally bestowed with bioactive molecules including proanthocyanidins, flavonoids, tannins, phenolic, carotenoids, dietary fiber, and etc. Persimmon leaves and fruit have imperative significance for coronary health because of hypocholesterolemic, anti-atherosclerosis and antioxidant perspectives...."

We have a total of 6 Persimmon trees.
Nikitas Gift, Diospyros virginiana x kaki
Wase Fuyu "Matsumoto", Diospyros kaki
Rosseyanka, Diospyros virginiana x kaki
Fuyu (Fuyugaki), Diospyros kaki ‘Fuyu’
Kasandra, Diospyros virginiana x kaki (in pot)
American, Diospyros virginiana (will graft female to our patch of all male native trees)

there are many varieties of Persimmon trees. American native and American cultivars (Diospyros virginiana); Asian cultivars (Diospyros kaki) and hybrid crosses between the American and Asian cultivars (Diospyros virginiana x kaki). hybrids allow us to select the Persimmon tree with the best range of traits (flavor, fruit size, tree size, astringentcy [astringent or non- astringent], seedless, self-fertile, etc.).

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in 2017 I started planning a food forest on a 2 acre abandoned property. we’re located only 10 miles south of the US Capitol but are surrounded by several hundred acres of forest and very few homes. the fruiting trees and fruiting shrubs, edible ground cover, edible flowers, and herbs and medicinal plants will provide food for generations. but it’s a long, slow ‘haul.’ we just started ;) so there’ll be vids for years to come :/ ;). check us out!: https://heppy.org

also, you DON’T NEED TWO ACRES to do this. i once planted ~12 fruit trees on the property of a residential home with a “normal” sized lot.