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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 14, 2006 12:20:22 GMT 12.75
Now that Spring's here, I was out doing some scouting for turkey season and brought my kid brother out with me. He carried a feed sack and a small shovel and we'd dig up every persimmon tree between eight and thirty inches we came across while we went through the woods.
I planted them on daddy's place this morning and put a little 7-7-7 fertilizer in the hole. I'm hoping that they'll take and in a few years I'll have an awesome spot for the deer.
He's got a few persimon trees already on the place and when they drop the deer go nuts, so I figured more's better.
Ya'll doing any transplanting?
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Post by Paws on Mar 14, 2006 15:07:25 GMT 12.75
I was digging up this funny looking bush what I believed to be asparagus and the Sheriff took it away!
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Post by Rich on Mar 14, 2006 22:44:17 GMT 12.75
Well, if I knew what one looked like I'd sure be doing it. A small grove of those suckers would sure help bring in the deer. Other critters too.
Rich
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Post by Paws on Mar 15, 2006 2:57:59 GMT 12.75
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Post by Brikatw on Mar 15, 2006 8:50:11 GMT 12.75
My Daddy was out in the neighbor's corn field years ago and came across a whole patch of them funny looking bushes. He went to chopping them down for the neighbor and took them to the house to throw in the burn pile. Well, another neighbor came by and told Daddy that it was some sort of tobacco. Daddy, being a good neighbor and not wanting to cost the poor farmer his profit, took all the bushes upto his attic and hung them up like tobacco. It was about a week later that I came home from the service and went up to get something or another and like to fall out back down the stairs. We called the sherriff and they took care of the problem for Dad. What makes this really funny though is the Department of Defense had just been by the house a couple days before to "investigate" my character for a "TOP SECRET" security clearance. They did such a fine job too. I mean anyone in that line of work could miss a little thing like 157 full bushes hanging upside down in the room next to where they were sitting. Heck, Dad even offered to give them a little "home grown" tobacco for the guys pipe and he refused it. Dad was just being hospitable. Good manners you know..... ;D
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Post by Toby on Mar 15, 2006 11:11:14 GMT 12.75
Holy crap!!!
He offered a federal agent a pipe full of jane? Wow!
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Post by gsoflittledove on Mar 23, 2006 15:30:03 GMT 12.75
My good friend George Maddis (author of several Winchester books) bought a farm clost by. It had a 12 A native persimmon grove on it (some of the best coon hunting around) He bulldozed it clean and Planted native persimmons on it so he could have a good spot to hunt. A dry summer killed the stand and he never replanted. Now its a Hay meddow. Never came back. By the way Persimmion is a fruit but the wood is unfit to cook with or even use as a camp fire.
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Post by brittonfaith on Mar 23, 2006 15:37:55 GMT 12.75
By the way Persimmion is a fruit but the wood is unfit to cook with or even use as a camp fire. But it sure is beautiful for lathework. I had a neighbor turn a couple of limbs into a knife handle and a couple of shuttles for my rug loom and they are so sweet!
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Post by Two Tales on Apr 2, 2006 16:29:41 GMT 12.75
Thought I'ld pop this thread open..for those NAHC members there is an extensive artical in this month's Rag about 'simmons....
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Post by Paws on Apr 2, 2006 19:55:18 GMT 12.75
Thanks Ralph! Say your oven just came out of the oven. I dressed it up a bit to knock the dust off of it. All wrapped up in an olive oil soaked paper towel and ready for packing. You know if I'm not careful I may just get czaught up on mail this coming week! ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 30, 2006 12:04:29 GMT 12.75
Just an update, all but two of seventeen 'simmon trees are green and thriving.
It'll be a couple or few years before they'll start producing fruit, but I'm tickled that they took.
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Post by trblmandy on Jun 6, 2007 6:12:16 GMT 12.75
hmmm i looked at the pic an they almost look like mahalls but then again i could b wrong.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 6, 2007 7:48:41 GMT 12.75
I'd forgot about this thread, but I'll give an update. I was black berry picking with the kids on the old railway bed that runs behind the property and we passed that stand of 'simmon trees and dangd if a few of them ain't got green fruit on them.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 28, 2007 18:29:31 GMT 12.75
Them p'simmon trees are still growing, but the few that had small fruit in them, ain't got no fruit no more! The larger trees that were already there still do have plenty of ruit ripening, but it hasn't started dropping yet.
When it does I expect the deer to slurp them up as soon as they hit the ground.
There's at least one 'possum in the area who's been enjoying them because his droppings are beneath the trees. ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Sept 30, 2007 5:58:57 GMT 12.75
Wouldn't you know. Fall is coming, the leaves are turning. And NOW I find a wild persimmon tree just behind the trailer. Am thinking about sending Mike or the boys down in the woods to fetch me some saplings to transplant over to the new place. I figure if I mud them in real good they just might struggle through the winter and make it. How big of root ball should we take? Any other ideas on transplanting them at this time of year in southern Ohio? I was digging up this funny looking bush what I believed to be asparagus and the Sheriff took it away! That wouldn't have anything to do with why the Wood Co. whirly-bird set down in your cousin's hay field the other day would it??? ;D Nearly scared the dickens out of me when it came over so low. Heck. At least you all kept that funny looking bush in the family, I hope. ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 30, 2007 10:26:29 GMT 12.75
I don't know nuttin about Paw's cousin and the whirly-bird, but when I moved them persimmon trees, we left a lot of dirt so as to keep as much root as possible. We laid them in the hole with some cowshit and covered them up. A couple of the little ones we staked to keep it upright. Good luck with them. You can take and graft them wild trees with cutting off of a sweet persimmon too.
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