EatTheWeeds: Episode 151: Persimmon Revisited

This is my second video about American persimmons including how some nutritional information made its way into a foraging book with some information about the authors.

[@FullSpectrumSurvival]

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The legend returns! Excellent overview. Can’t wait for more.

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[@bikerider76058]

I have several wild persimmon trees that came up by my cargo trailer. We live south of Fort Worth. The big tree is only about 5 years old and I never paid any attention to it. A few weeks ago I noticed it is covered in fruit and there are little trees coming up everywhere. I finally found someone that ķnew what kind of tree it was. I don't think I ever ate a persimmon, but I am going to try one.

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[@greendeane1]

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[@d37fan]

Truly have missed watching and learning from your videos. I’ve had a fondness for persimmons most of my life due to the fond memories of Grandma’s persimmon pudding at Christmas time.

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[@markm5946]

Pissed that I got a seedling from ebay 4 years ago of a giant fuyu persimmon and found out this spring that it was a male tree, covered with thousands of male flowers, not one fruit and the tree is 15 feet tall. haha... I know right, get em grafted! I do have some grafted and one produced abundantly this third year, it was labeled a "hachiya", but it's definitely not that acorn shape, all the fruit look flatter like fuyu, which is just fine with me, at least got a lot of fruit after a long wait. Now late Oct, I could start picking them, they are non astringent so can be eaten hard or soft, off the tree or let ripen jelly soft on the countertop. It's just sweet goodies, good with lime or some citrus or other mixes.

[@richardmang2558]

Too bad about the bad experience that some shyster took your money for a seedling. Make the best of it, since now you have a mature root system graft onto it with some good persimmon stock. Although persimmon is considered difficult to graft. Get some help from an experienced grafter from a local garden club. In my area there is CRFG (California Rare Fruit Growers) where local chapters hold grafting sessions each year.

[@OffGridInvestor]

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[@wildedibles819]

Thanks i don't think we have any or many in Ontario where we live But they might be down south in the great lakes area Interesting talk Much love xoxox

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[@brianlucas7604]

Good to see you. I put the hard persimmons in a brown paper bag with an apple. The ethylene gas from the apple will ripen the persimmons.

[@khustombuilt2854]

Wow, they are tiny. I've only ever seen the large sweet commercial ones.

[@khustombuilt2854]

A Chinese man told me that the astringent fruit is good for ridding your stomach of parasites.. Don't know if this is true

[@camojoe83]

Persimmons are the only wild food around here I just can't do. Every time I've ever tried one I've never had the urge to try another. my grandpa loves em, I don't get it.

[@greendeane1]

Pick them when he does...

[@camojoe83]

@@greendeane1 shoot, I've had him hand me a 'good' one before, i just think its a taste thing for me. We like the same kind of pawpaws tho.

[@putneyfarm64]

Let them ripen and you will know why. :-)

[@EvanBoyar]

I'm familiar with "smut" referring to huitlacoche (corn fungus). It's interesting to see it used here to mean another pathogen.

[@davidthegood]

MY FAVORITE FORAGER is BACK!!!

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Thank you for the heads-up in your newsletter e-mail. Long time subscriber to you both. Come to think of it, I probably found your channel as a result of Green Deane.

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How refreshing to see a new video from Green Deane! You were missed!

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He's back!! Seeing this pop up put a grin on my face. Nice to see you posting again

[@ScaryFear]

Oh my goodness you've back. So good to see you again. I still reference your old videos often. I love them. I'm in Central FL so I like these a lot.

[@earlystrings1]

Great to see Green Dean after so many years. You have always been my foraging authority!

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Wow! You're back!

[@Iam1uglyguy]

Awesome to see your name pop up on my feed. Welcome back!!

[@zengardengnome]

Great to see you're back and well! Curious if the sooty leaves are a result of the tree's nature or if it's an effect from the environment.

[@EatTheWeeds]

It's a natural mold/fungus or the like. I was told it doesn't bother the tree our us. It can be washed off.

[@putneyfarm64]

@@EatTheWeeds That is how I spot the trees in the fall.

[@kleineroteHex]

You are my hero! Found you when I was sick of weeding my garden what a blessing! I now have a persimmon tree and a pawpaw growing. Good to get your input again!

[@jeffferris2783]

Are these self pollinating varieties? Having two different varieties of each will provide higher yields self pollinating or not.

[@kleineroteHex]

@@jeffferris2783 it's a matter of room here! Besides I don't need pounds and pounds of pawpaw, not even sure if I like them. Time will tell, can always try later to fit another in.

[@jeffferris2783]

@@kleineroteHex Just had my first pawpaw's this year. Tree was 6 yrs. old. I found them to be delicious. If your tree's are self pollinating your good if not you won't see any fruit.

[@kleineroteHex]

@@jeffferris2783 6 years? Mine is 2 or 3 years old. I asked when I got it if I needed more than one, they said I get more fruit for sure. Guess I will have to wait a bit longer to find out😁

[@jeffferris2783]

@@kleineroteHex While their are several persimmon's that are for sure self pollinating, I just planted one this year, when it comes to pawpaw's I've only seen varieties reputed to be self pollinating. If space is an issue you can actually grow two together say 6 ft. apart. In the wild they sucker forming groves. All 4 of my trees have suckered offering free trees if I wanted them. I just mow them off.

[@derekclawson4236]

Glad to see a video from you! You certainly have inspired me to become a forager. Persimmon here in the Florida panhandle are ripening now. From around 2-3 weeks ago to still ripening and falling. Very good natural cultivars here in gulf county. More astringent northward of here. I collected tons of seeds if anyone is interested comment this post and I'll direct you to where we can exchange info. At any rate native persimmon are a great foraged edible very much worth the effort. Knew of the seed oil but not about using the leaves. Thanks for that! Would love to see you start posting videos regularly again.

[@stetsoncausey6984]

No doubt the persimmons here are ripening and I'm finding and eating them everyday.

[@chrisjamieson6818]

This is new... This is very very good... Glad to see you back.

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Great to see you again!

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Missed you!

[@ScottWConvid19]

I would say that it's great to see you, but I'm actually only seeing an image of you! 😂 Thanks for taking the time to revisit persimmons. It's been a recent interest of mine, so it's quite timely

[@ZombieLogic101]

Oh damn! I missed ya Dean! Hope ya keep posting stuff!

[@CarlWinzil]

Cheers mate, you're a champion.

[@alecschwarz]

😊

[@ruthlongridge2137]

Thnk you and blss you for this. Love from South Africa

[@mayamachine]

Wow a rare sighting these days,, the elusive Green Dean... wonderful! I thought the largest berry in north America( Turtle Island) was the pawpaw which I grow and is a berry.

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Glad your back. I’ve cleaned my subscribers list several times of defunct or thought abandoned channels. This one I wouldn’t get rid of. Glad I didn’t.

[@dustietu]

Wow! So happy to see your video pop up! Persimmons are everywhere now. Thanks for the info on them!

[@JoeMac1983]

I can't wait to watch this later! Welcome back! You've been missed!!!

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welcome back!

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[@camojoe83]

Glad to see ya back, boss. We missed ya!

[@nancyfahey7518]

Good to see you back. I know of some wild persimmons near by. I will try them in my second ferment kombucha. And maybe I can exchange using the seeds instead of my half decaf which some people say I'm poisoning myself.

[@greenbeard343]

Will the wild persimmons ripen and/or loose astringency best on the tree or after picking? Or will they ever stay put on the tree long enough to ripen? I have several on my property. The deer🦌 usually get to them before I can

[@putneyfarm64]

A secret I learned was to pick while you can, and allow to ripen on kitchen counter. YUM! Deer and raccoons, etc. will be the first to grab them as they tree ripen.

[@RonRay]

I'm not sure of the connection (except the vitamin C content), but orange tree leaves tend to have that same "smut" on them as well. When I was a child (1950's - 1960's), there were orange groves EVERYWHERE in Florida and the smut on the leaves stands out in my memory. Now the sweet smell of orange blossoms is a rarity.

[@EatTheWeeds]

When I first came to Florida (1977) I thought the orange blossoms I was smelling were May Flowers.

[@RonRay]

@@EatTheWeeds I don't believe that I have ever smelled a more beautiful aroma than the orange blossoms.

[@putneyfarm64]

Ronray, I was a child in Altamonte Springs (Dol Ray Manor) in the 50's too! Minute Maid orange groves all around us. For extra money, we picked oranges. Great times!

[@RonRay]

​@@putneyfarm64 We lived from Tavares to Eustice to Altoona to Tampa and St. Pete (not far from Altamonte Springs). You living there, then you KNOW orange groves! I had an uncle (Jack Dempsey), that worked for the major orange growers and got into the business for himself at the "end", when the temps dropped below normal and killed many thousand acres of orange trees. That area wasn't known for its excess money floating around, so I can well understand y'all working in the groves. I went to work for one of those processing plants, driving a loading machine that picked up the large crates of oranges and loaded them onto the trucks, but it didn't work out very long after I dropped a crate right next to a supervisor! :) Great reminiscing with you Donna.

[@HaphazardHomestead]

Gray's manual of botany, by Fernald, was my first real botany book. All the nice photos and videos of plants available nowadays are quite a contrast to those few tiny pen and ink illustrations and botany terminology in Fernald's book, lol. Back at that time, one of my forestry professors was really promoting us to appreciate persimmon trees -- the big ones were worth real money for making golf clubs, for the driver heads. But that's gone by the wayside, too. At least wild persimmon fruits will stay one of my most favorite fruits to eat!

[@simpleman283]

Green Dean is great, but I love your channel too.

[@kennedy67951]

Green dean, I don't know why you stopped putting up KZbin video's, 'but it's sure good that your back and hopefully to stay this time. I missed your wonderful Teachings on Edible Plants Sir. Again, thank you for sharing your vast knowledge with me and all willing to learn about Our World around Us. There's one thing about this Fruit Tree that you didn't mention and maybe for good reason, that is that the Wood of this Tree at one time was worth $7 dollars a Square Inch because it was used to make Golf Clubs. This might not be true anymore, though. I was wondering if you knew about this? Again, thank you.

[@EatTheWeeds]

Life gets in the way of living.... and the persimmon is an ebony, I think I mention that in my website article.

[@kennedy67951]

@@EatTheWeeds Thanks for your none delayed reply Green Dean. Maybe you did mention it. I didn't hear it though. This is another reason to preserve this wonderful Fruit Tree. But not for making Golf Clubs.

[@butchmetzger7023]

Eattheweeds?! Green Deane?! So cool to see a new video. I haven't found persimmons in my woods but I'm going to have to look again!

[@SomeoneSomewhere1984]

As a kid, living in Oklahoma, persimmons were my favorite fruits.

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welcome back G.

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I LOVE your videos !

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as soon as I saw the video, i literally went "oh my god! I thought he'd died!" and then clicked on it :D

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I’ve loved your videos, welcome back

[@baileybrunson42]

Another excellent video..! Persimmons are a delicious fruit when ripe (after they've been through a frost). In my personal experience you can pick them when they are on the green side but they need to be put in the freezer for a while (2-3 days). They will ripen up and be delicious..

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Green Deane! How I missed your jocular voice sir! Glad to see this video and wishing you well. :)

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Thanks for another great video!

[@mitchbromwell9554]

@EatTheWeeds, So very, very happy to have you back. 🍊 Thank God that you are surviving.👍 Looking forward to more great content and maybe some Central Florida nature tours..☑ God Bless You. 🇺🇸

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Welcome back!!

[@RonRay]

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[@johnsmalldridge6356]

One thing I would add is to learn the difference between Ginko berries and persimmons. They both fall from the tree at about the same time of the year and look superficially alike. Neither are toxic but one is a wonderful taste experience while the other will have you checking the bottom of your shoes to make sure that you didn’t step in something.

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That link above to "second video (#151)" takes me places I don't really want to go. Not sure what KZbin is trying to pull. UPDATE: Not a link, but KZbin thinks it is. Got it. The "Pound Sign: #" has been hijacked. Regardless, #MeToo is my favorite, as my 60 year old brain reads it as: "Pound Me Too!"

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Bout DamnTime! Your library is priceless. ...food shortage? Lots go ...

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Well, well, well ... Nice to see you back. 13 years!! Has it been that long!? Wow. And, my, how the world has changed. Anyhow, glad to see you making videos again ... Keep making them. 😉👍

[@NickleJ]

Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge. I just found a large tree nearby full of fruit and am anxiously waiting for them to ripen.

[@2kruimels]

OMG!!!! He is back!!! These trees look a little sad compared to those here in Portugal!. Gosh, you don look like a septugenarian! All those weeds you eat probably? 😂 Could you do Moringa sometime? My tree is huge but has never borne fruit?? Too cold??? I am scared to eat the leaves as I am not sure it is just a lookalike!

[@ellepardue]

Where is this?

[@EatTheWeeds]

Central Florida.

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;D FL baby!

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@@jpjacobs436 lol no way

[@PorcheGardener]

I was so worried something awful happened to you. I'm glad you're back

[@richardmang2558]

At about @16:30 you mention the animals that like to eat the persimmons. I have a Hichiya and a Fuyu persimmons in my yard ( San Diego county , California), which are not the American wild persimmons. The coyotes here discovered the fruit and ate every one they could reach (anything below 6') by either leaping or climbing up into the trees. At the time the trunks were quite slender and I worried the whole tree would snap off from the coyotes climbing for the fruit. And of course all of this fruit was completely lost or damaged from fang punctures. So I cut off all of the branches below 6'. This year I finally get to enjoy the fruit and the tree branches are not damaged. Now I just have to keep ahead of the birds!

[@sealevelearth]

So glad to see you back! Was wondering 😔about you ⚰ hehe. Hope to see many more informative foraging vids. Thanks

[@Mannard74]

How about Strangler Figs, Emperor's Candlestick, and Old World Diamond flowers

[@mrbrown6421]

Every video looks too long, then suddenly, it is too short. Thank you sir, and yes, you will be alive when your book is published. I greatly want a copy, and probably 2 since my wife and I will obviously want our own private signed copy. Later!

[@anthonyburdine1061]

Thanks again for your wonderful, informative, helpful and enjoyable videos !!😊

[@mr.m4611]

I just bought my first Diospyros virginiana today from a local native plant nursery😁 Excited to buy more cause I don't know if I got a male or a female. I've never tasted the fruit🤞

[@riannappleapple2958]

Thanks for your hard work researching these interesting plants. It is changing lives. I am watching from the Amazon basin in South America.

[@CassandraShadowheart]

Oooo those taste like dates on the outside and light apricot on the inside :3 I want to have one again. But basically persimmon pickling, eh? Id try that Depends why his heart beat was irregular. Was he drinking a lot of coffee before and after his period of using them as a substitute? Caffeine can be a culprit in susceptible individuals

[@Cruiser052]

I come check occasionally, glad to see you back. I'm in Alabama so there's a lot of overlap. Thank you for educating us on edibles.

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YAY! 😄 Geez, sooo thrilled to see you back on KZbin! I check back often to see if you have posted and this makes me so happy! Thank you! 🌿

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Oh, how I missed your videos. I've learned so much from you over the years. I know it's been said by all here, but I had to leave my own comment so the algorithm boosts you: Welcome back.

[@micahspur]

shake the tree, but not too hard, or you might get one not ripe. I made the full strength coffee, tasted like persimmon tee! delicious, 1/2 a cup down I I got sick to my stomach. and that doesn't happen very often. p.s. kept it down.

[@MultiUSAPatriot]

You're back!!!! Please don't leave for too long again. Please don't. Just make videos or vlogs of plants

[@manthanpadia2786]

I'm from India and I love your videos. I am so happy to see your latest one. Hoping you will come up with more good videos like such.

[@FusionDeveloper]

Awesome. I think I had one once as a kid. I would enjoy trying one again. I love astringent stuff.

[@drsalimahsuhaimi]

Green Deane!!!!! I MISSED U!!!!!!! So happy seeing this new upload

[@Dionne2U2]

I found you just after you stopped making new videos, so glad you are back!

[@1mulekicker]

Wild hogs in Rock Springs that frequent the trees there most likely help plant a large number of seeds each season.

[@feltingme]

That is a long time to wait for the book! Thank you for all you do.

[@evancohen2531]

anybody else have audio?? mines not working like it's all white noised out.