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Davidmac
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Location: Havana, Florida zone8b

Posted: Mon 05 Nov, 2007 12:23 am

Here is what 'Makawa Jiro' Persimmon looked like today at Just Fruits and Exotics and the label it has in their garden.
Does anyone here have any experience with it?

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Skeeter
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Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9

Posted: Mon 05 Nov, 2007 2:12 pm

Joe, is that the same as the Jiro you sent me?

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JoeReal
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Posted: Mon 05 Nov, 2007 2:18 pm

Skeeter, not the same. Yours is plain Jiro. There are many types of Jiro persimmons now. They often have slight sport mutation, which although I find them to be insignificant, my Korean and Japanese friends are able to tell.
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Posted: Mon 05 Nov, 2007 2:35 pm

Thanks Joe,
In any case I am looking forward to getting some fruit next year. I have never eaten them when they are still firm, which I guess is the way to eat the non-astringent varieties. We had 2 different trees (no idea of varieties) when I was a kid and we only ate them when they were soft because we knew about wild persimmons when they were still firm. I never really liked the Japanese persimmons as much as the wild ones-- maybe because we were waiting too late.

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