Fuyu Persimmon Harvest

It's 11/18/18 and my Fuyu Persimmon is absolutely loaded this year.  In fear of being hijacked by hungry critters (there were already few that have been eaten). I went ahead and picked off the fruit. We've been having major frosts and I did not want the fruit to get damaged.

The tree hasn't grown much but it's definitely more productive. I did not thin this year so the fruit is small than previous years.

Here's the tree after pick a off more of the viable fruit. I left the half eaten ones on the tree to feed the bird and 2 fruit near the top to see if I can ripen them on the tree.

I got about 15 lbs worth and will ripen them on the counter with aid from a ripe banana and good old ethylene gas.

I plan on drying some out. The taste of dried asian persimmon is pure candy!

After about 15hrs on the rack they've shrunken down to about a 3rd of the normal size. 

The fuzzy kiwis also went nuts. There must've been over 20lbs

These are almost as good as the store bought ones.