General information and discussion about cultivating fruit-bearing plants, trees, flowers and ornamental plants.
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Stuff at bottom reminds me of the good old days of good gasoline.
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I hope those cuttings take for you, Good Luck with them.
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I've been making a wine called Dragon Blood and it's a fast drinking hooch type. I also made 3 gallons of 3/4 cranberry and 1/4 concord grape flavored with Jim Beam to give it an oak flavor. This stuff need to age to mellow the alcohol but it's really good now, reminds me of a Port. I step fed the sugar and restarted fermentation so I'm guessing it's about 17% alcohol by volume.
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Sweet.
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I'm getting ready to invest in a couple white oak stave bourbon barrels... Anybody from Kentucky know where I can get them? I'd love to drive down and pick a few of them up!
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I remember the first persimmon that I ate. It was growing in the Ozarks in Arkansas. I was 11 years old and had never heard of persimmons. It was far from ripe, and to equate it - it was like taking a bite of alum. Ripe persimmons taste good.
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Anybody up for an unripe persimmon eating contest.
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LOL! We get them in supermarkets, as persimmons do not grow locally in our climate. There are several sub-species / varieties, some are edible and even delicious before their soft prime, while others... well, not so
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Correction: There is a cultivar / variety called 'Sharon' which comes from Israel, and it has square-ish type of fruit. That one is safe to eat at any stage of its ripeness (provided the right color is there of course)
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Fuyu persimmons are common here and are also edible (and good!) when they are firm.
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