Five out of the six fruits described here are PVNA (Pollination Variant Non Astringent) type, meaning they need to be pollinated and have seeds to be non-astringent at the hard stage. The non-pollinated fruits of this type are astringent until completely soft.
Mike's seedling is always astringent regardless of pollination. It should be completely soft before consumption.
Zenji Maru (top middle) - very sweet and crunchy, sweet apple flavored.
Wind Machine Chocolate (top right) - These are usually larger in size. These fruits were exceptionally small, but very sweet and date flavored. The origin of this accession is a seedling tree at the Otow orchard.
Mike's seedling (bottom left) - This is a seedling of Gosho fruit started by a friend. The fully soft fruits are very sweet. The fruits tasted today still had a little astringency as they were not completely soft.
Hyakume (bottom middle) - This was a crunchy pollinated fruit. Slightly sweet and complex in flavor with nectarine notes.
Rye Bread (bottom right) - Pollinated crunchy sweet fruits with chocolate-peach flavor. I found this tree a few years ago in Coloma and started propagating it. The fruits are from my graft.
Thank you
ReplyDeleteHow can you tell your Hyakumes are pollinated? I believe it is really hard, so multi-generational Japanese persimonn farmers use some kind of Vodka based technique to ripen them, so that they don't have to depend on whether they are pollinated.
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Yes, I know. It is hard. Vodka treatment solves the astringency problem for unpollinated fruits.
DeleteThese sound really interesting!
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