How to Pick a Sweet Persimmon... The Old Japanese Way

How to Pick a Sweet Persimmon... The Old Japanese Way 🔔 Subscribe to join our family and more Japanese gardening wisdom.    / @harusgardening   Most people squeeze a persimmon to see if it's ready. I did too, for years, and it's the quickest way to spoil a good one. In this video I show you how to pick a sweet persimmon using five checks I've learned in forty years in my garden in Nagano, high up where the winters are cold. You'll learn how to tell a sweet, non-astringent persimmon like Fuyu from an astringent one like Hachiya before you bite, and why one of them dries your mouth like a wool sock. You'll see what to look for under the green cap, what a loose cap usually means, and when a persimmon is ripe enough to harvest from the tree or buy at the shop. The fourth check is the one I got wrong for about ten years. Every autumn I threw away the sweetest part of the fruit, and my father ate it off the chopping board without saying a word. Whether you grow your own persimmon tree or buy from the shop, none of this is hard. Watch first, then pick. Articles and sources used for research outside my own garden: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/... https://ask.extension.org/kb/faq.php?... https://pure.nihon-u.ac.jp/en/publica... https://www.bcpc.org/wp-content/uploa...