Persimmon Trees
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Topic: Persimmon Trees
Posted By: Gary(MO)
Subject: Persimmon Trees
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2020 at 7:54pm
| Here in northeast missouri the persimmon trees on my property do not have any persimmons on them. I am disapointed because this is how I judge our oncoming winter. Have a good night, Gary |
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Posted By: Adam Stratton
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2020 at 9:01pm
| We have some persimmons in SWMO that are already ripe, which is shocking to me. I haven't personally cut any seeds but those I've heard of down here are seeing a lot of spoons |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 1:27am
| i didn't have any aronia berries this year due to a late frost this spring |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 6:33am
| Around here persimmons are just about gone this time of year . |
Posted By: Gary(MO)
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 7:25am
| Shameless. That means you can point your machine further south in Missouri this year and skip northeast missouri. Spoons mean snow. LOL. Have a good day.Gary |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 8:03am
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Have a relative abundance of Persimmon on the farm Have two in wye shot of the house in cemetery and a half dozen along the drive Several dozen scattered thru the drainage bottom by the barn One point I was puzzled by finding the fruit along the driveway and no tree noted until finally figured out the tree is 12-15” across and close to 60’ tall!! Fruit is 30’ up in the canopy!! |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 8:47am
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Used to be alot around these parts. But during the seventies they got cut to make golf club heads up. True Temper made gazillions of them. ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 12:18pm
| I have a set of Wilson’s |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 2:25pm
| Does it take two trees to get a fruit ? |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 6:25pm
| Believe are self pollenating. |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 6:35pm
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We used to have a couple in the front yard when I was a kid... they were as much seeds as fruit, but delicious when ripe... ... ... if you bit into one that was not completly ripe, it would pukker you up enough to whistle forever... peace, ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: den/southern illinoi
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 6:55pm
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We have 2 groves of trees about 30 foot apart with about 15 to 20 trees in each group. All the trees in one grove have fruit on the trees and not one tree in the other grove has ever had fruit on them. Den ------------- Own 5 720 garden tractors with associated equipment,1 620 garden tractor, 4 wheel 20 2-5015, 5020 and associated equipment and 2 electric forklifts. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 6:58pm
| We have several down on the bottom of our property. They haven’t produced well for a few years. Don’t know what makes them produce or not but it sure varies. |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 8:01pm
| I was told only the female trees have permissions . |
Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 8:20pm
| Generally. Persimmon trees are either Male (pink flowers) or female (white flowers). A tree can have rarely have both sexes, that is a transpersimmon. |
Posted By: ocharry
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 10:34pm
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Where are you Gary...I'm just north of Bowlingreen ....I have quit a few of these trees and they are loaded...and ripe...kinda early but they are...and some of the trees dont have any leaves on them...but lots of fruit...never seen that before....deer love the things too..lol Ocharry |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 10:34pm
| is the wood good in a smoker? |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 6:59am
 
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dr p wrote:Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 8:24am
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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 10:44am
| Hey Gary! How accurate has the persimmon seeds been in forecasting winter? Is it that reliable? |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 11:46am
I use it when green and like it a lot. A little soft and burns like soft wood when dry. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 2:36pm
| I have had this a few yeaars and it has never bloomed one year it froze off and can back from the roots. |
Posted By: Gary(MO)
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 7:45pm
| Ocharry. I am southwest of bowling green about15 milesw. Close to Gazette |
Posted By: Gary(MO)
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 7:47pm
| Steve MC/il It is an old timers saying about the seeds in persimmon |
Posted By: ocharry
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 8:48pm
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Dang Gary...we is almost neighbors.... We might have to meet up in BG for a coffee sometime Ocharry |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 9:59pm
I Know what it is.....that isn't what I asked you. Read it again. You said you use it to tell winter...... how's that panned out¿ |
Posted By: Gary(MO)
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 5:38am
| SteveM C/IL I don't really know. I have seen seeds with spoons,forks,knife at different years but some of the mild winters I seen spoons with little snow. I think it could an old timers conversation piece. Gary |
Posted By: Gary(MO)
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 5:39am
| ocharry. Sounds good. Gary |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 6:11am
so no persimmons means NO Winter ????? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 7:20pm
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late freeze got mine this spring too and had no fruit this year either ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: Gary(MO)
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:01am
| I guess I need to clarify the meaning of the persimmon seed winter forecast. Cut the seeds open and see what shape is in them. Spoon means snow,fork means mild winter and knife means cold. I don't know how true it is but make for a lot of conversation and a good laugh. Wooly worms also tell of winter by their color. Black is cold brown is mild white is snow. All of these predictions come from the old timers when I was a kid. Which was a long time ago. ha! ha! Have a good day everyone. Gary |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 11:58am
| Last seasons wooly worms were mostly black, got hard freezes, loads of snow and ice, so far all I have seen have been solid golden brown. |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 7:50pm
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The wooly worms here have small black on each end with wide band of brown. Tracy ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2020 at 8:31pm
| I must have lead a sheltered life, never seen a persimmon. Aronia bushes here had quite a few Berry's on them. Dam deer must love them, the dam things rode the fence down and ate their share. Just like a filthy goat does. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 9:10am
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Funny how one remembers some little ole thing from way back then,,,,, I kinda remember in grade school,,long bout the 3rd grade readin bout them persimmons,,,and,,,,and,,that them coons really liked them and most people was always having to shoo them coons away from the fruit else they'd eat em all up,,,,but you sure didn't want to pick em too early,,else you puckered up big time,,,,, We don't have any in this country or ever even seen what they look like,,,,
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2020 at 2:56pm
| I don't think they grow to far north and must not like the heat of the southern states either |