RAIN and PERSIMMOON RISING
Hard to believe they still have drought conditions up north when you’re standing in lush over grown green paddock in ankle deep water, looking at a rain gage of 78 ml in 7 hours and more to come.
We stopped irrigation for our shade house for native seedlings beginning of May.
Last fruits to harvest are fejoa and persimmons, on the 7th of May watched the orange full moon rise behind the persimmon tree.
We grow both the Astringent and non-Astringent varieties.
have figured out a way to dry the Astringent type which I think are highly underrated. You must always wait until fully ripe and jelly like in texture if you try them un ripe you get that crazy tannin effect like chomping on a pine cone it pulls your whole mouth into all sorts of odd contortions.
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If you want to dry them use this Japanese technique of peeling and hanging them in a warm sheltered place. For this you must pick the non-astringent type when dark orange but not fully ripe. Hoshigaki is what the Japanese call dried persimmon.
I love your photo of the tui! Have you grown any persimmon from cuttings? We were talking about them on Friday with the guy at Thirkettles, he said persimmons have a very low success rate of about 50% (can't remember if that was for grafting, cuttings or both). There seems to be a lot of demand for them at the moment. We have a wait list of about 40 people at the Plant Barn!
ReplyDeleteNo I have never tried to grow persimmon form cuttings, but I am about to try it out as I have just pruned a big tree and would love some more. I assume because it is a deciduous tree it would be good to do it now from the new growth and its not quite budding yet, but haven't done much re search will give it a go and let you know if it works, although it will be sometime until I find out. Could bring some cuttings to NMIT if you want tor try it out??
Deleteany luck yet??
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