Because frost speeds up the ripening of the persimmon, it's a great idea to harvest non astringent persimmons prior to frost. Non astringent persimmons are meant to be eaten hard and crunchy and not soft like a non astringent. Frost will make them turn soft quickly, so that's what I am doing in today's video-- harvesting prior to frost.

I also compare the non astringents I am growing. One called Tam Kam and the other called Ichi Jiro. Both are relatively similar and not as early as expected. When they're early, you can ripen a full crop potentially before your first hard frost allowing them in my opinion to develop a better flavor on the tree. Prok ripened roughly a whole 2 months earlier.

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