Fruits and Nuts: My beloved damaged persimmon tree (will green fruit ripen?), 0 by Horseshoe

Horseshoe wrote:
Hmmm....one year later and I could'a sworn I had posted last years fruit outcome. It turned out that many of them actually ripened; apparently there was enough attachment of the broken limbs to keep the leaves on the tree and also to provide moisture to the fruit. I can't remember how many we got but quite a few.

And now, this year, I'm still getting some. I ended up trimming off some of the branches that were dried up, saved some of the other branches that were heavily leaning down but still growing. I had ideas of rooting some of the new growth earlier this year but never go around to it. A month or so ago I was actually thinking of taking some growth buds and try grafting them onto the root stock. (You can see all the tall straight-up branches growing, those are root stock branches.)

As of this week I've picked about 15 RIPE 'simmons though, with many more to come!

I think I'll end up trimming up the tree after this harvest though, I don't care to have the limbs down on the ground like this all summer again.

Shoe (who will make persimmon cookies this week!)