Persimmons Not in Season?

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added 4 months ago

In NYC we still have persimmons

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QueenSashy added 4 months ago

Actually, I observed the same thing as savorthis. We still have them in NYC, but in most of the places I tried to buy them, the quality was pretty low. Looks like November/December seems to be the real season.

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HalfPint added 4 months ago

Yeah, that sounds about right. My father-in-law (in Napa, CA) has two trees and he harvested all of them last month.

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Suzanne is a trusted source on General Cooking.

added 4 months ago

I live in Brooklyn and only found some VERY sad persimmons at one store and I went to 4 different stores, I decided not to take a trip to Manhattan, probably could have found them there. Fresh Direct didn't have any at all they said it's California's cold weather that has put a damper on crops.

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added 4 months ago

I searched high and low too - in Texas - and found one flat sort of stashed by the apples at one store ... I suppose it really depends where you are, ours were earlier too. But then, our tomatoes, peaches, well all summer stuff are ready months before the same in NY ....

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pierino is a trusted source on General Cooking and Tough Love.

added 4 months ago

We still have them in California but the season is rapidly winding down and we won't see them for much longer.

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added 4 months ago

Maybe they are keeping them in state because every store I have spoken with said they are not getting the shipments from California that they usually do. I love persimmons and buy them every year, miss them here.

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EmilyC added 4 months ago

Same experience here in Northern VA! The ones I bought were shipped in from Israel and the quality left something to be desired!

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Panfusine added 4 months ago

The quality of the available fruits was definitely better a month ago..the ones I got last week for the contest were FUYU rather than the Hachiyas that I was looking for..

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added 4 months ago

Our local persimmon season was all ended about three weeks ago. Those in the stores were terribly sad, indeed. I therefore did not enter the contest. . . . ;o)

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BoulderGalinTokyo added 4 months ago

We're having a really cold winter (for Tokyo) and my trees were bare about the end of November (both Hachiya and Fuyu). My box lasted until Christmas. But they still can be found in the stores EXPENSIVELY.

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