Yep, October 12th. Here they posted about it on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18MjnRNL1i/?mibextid=wwXIfr
I can’t justify the cost of traveling down there, if anyone here ends up going and has some extra fruit they want to sell, I’ll happily pay.
I was pleasantly surprised to find my American persimmon survived the woodchucks and the goldenrod! But I’m trying to figure out if it’s the cheap seedling that I purchased or the excellent American cultivar that a nut grower friend gave me.
This was a weird graft, because it was thicker than the stem is even now, the underground part is this thick, but since it was planted on a woodchuck den, it could have sunken that much, I think it did sink, and now I have a mystery, did my graft die and the seedling survive, or did my tree sink and that is the grafted variety?
And here it almost looks like the right part has a different bark, like it is the bottom of the grafted variety, and the shoot is off the seedling, but I’m really not sure.
Another of the possible graft
Here are the leaves. I’m not very familiar with Persimmons except eating them and picking them on a couple occasions and I’d like an opinion on if it’s American or a hybrid. I was told it was a good American cultivar variety but no name.
The first picture definitely looks like a graft to me, and the second one doesn’t look like one.
Unfortunately that’s the same one from opposite sides! 
So you seem as confused as I am.
It’s probably the Rootstock, but I want to believe that it isn’t.
I am happy to find that Early Golden truly is early. We had our first ripe ones about two weeks ago. Coming on fast now.
Well.. I was out of town for a week 12-19 at WDW with family.
When I left my H63A and Barbaras blush.. and Prok were ripening fruits pretty quickly.
Checked my trees after we got back and H63A, BB had ripened and dropped all remaining fruit.. no sign of them now. Prok has 4 persimmons still on that have not ripened yet. I should get to harvest and eat those.
My Kasandra hybrid had 2 fruits with a little damage (looked like bird peck)… that had turned red and wrinkled a bit.
We are still having extreme heat (bumping 100) and very dry.
That is the second one.. I picked it today and shared it with my daughter and granddaughter. No astringency at all and very delicious.
My IKKJs are colored up some.. JT02s still mostly green.
The other fruits above are CHE.
TNHunter
So a few days ago I pulled my finished hoshi gaki out of my greenhouse “wind tunnel” (see details and photos above) and started a second batch using more Saijo fruits:
Here is the resultant product from the first batch:
1st and only ripe Barbara Blush American fruit from a graft last year. It is about 2" wide. It had more but I thin them and left only this one. It’s early since something bite it at the dark spots near the top.
[edit] to add that it has 6 seeds and no males trees near by that I know off
Congratulations Stan. Yours DS looked exactly like the one that Harbin posted a few years ago with that squared shape fruit. We now have the real DS
Tony
Temps here for the past couple of weeks have been high 90s to above 100. Persimmons all coming in weeks early. Oddly, NC-10, which is usually the first to start dropping ripe fruits has been the latest to get in on the act.
Hybrids - Rosseyanka, David’s Kandy Korn, JT-02 are all still mostly green… mostly did not ripen until after first frost, last year, on 29 Oct.
NC-10
Prok
Prok & Yates
My IKKJs today… they look a little bigger than last year.
Nikitas Gift…
Kasandra…
One of my Kasandra limbs with 3 fruit on… got hit by twig girdler… it is still hanging on with fruit that is just a little orange… mostly still green.
Will those ripen on the counter ? Or should I leave them hanging on this branch that is about 90% cut off ?
I did find one nice ripe Kasandra today.
TNHunter
Both. I’d cut off the branch and let it pump out the last of itself into the fruit, or you could tie the branch up and leave them there, but I wouldn’t want to risk letting them fall.
I went picking Persimmons one time and almost all the ripe Persimmons that early were on broken branches.
I had to pick some low hanging Kasandra due to Possum starting to sample them. They were green but beginning to blush. They ripened on the counter in 1 week and were quite good but not as good as when fully ripened on the tree.
A few details I found online on the female twig girdler.
It sure sounds like she laid eggs on the part of the branch that my persimmons are on.. then girdled the branch so it eventually falls to the ground.. and her offspring feed on that piece of dead branch initally.
So… I will collect that branch.. and hopefully all her eggs.. and burn it.
I will let those few Kasandra fruit counter ripen.
Thanks
TNHunter
Getting closer to harvest:
