Removing astringency from hybrid persimmons -- Collating observations

[jrd51]

This thread didn’t seem to get much traction, but I’ll try to post whatever relevant observations I find.

@ncdabbler reports (link below) that 3 days of CO2 did not remove astringency from Nikita’s Gift (but did work on some Asians).

Processing astringent American persimmons

The untreated persimmons that start to soften are still quite astringent until they get very soft. I have left a few untreated persimmons on the counter and not in a container, but I haven’t made careful observations. I prefer to keep my persimmons in some kind of container because sometimes they soften up and start to leak before I notice them. I’m sure you’re right about ethylene playing the key role in ripening, but I would expect the treated fruit in the enclosed CO2 chamber would have ev…