Persimmon Trees

Does anyone have permission trees for the wildlife/deer? I just planted two trees to see how the deer take to them but, everything I’ve read makes it seem like it’s a northern thing.

We didn’t plant them but we have a good many in certain locations and the deer will stop and eat a few but it’s just along thr normal route. I personally wouldn’t plant any just for the deer but it can’t hurt anything.

I probably have have a thousand of them. Deer and everything else eat the fruit. Sometimes they have a lot and sometimes very little. If they didn't grow naturally here I don't think I would go out of my way planting them just for the wildlife.

I also have a bunch of native persimmons on the property, but have noticed the deer will clean up pecans and white-oak acorns before they mess with the persimmons much.

Planted a few Fuji persimmons years ago at my wife’s grandmas place, the pigs are under them much more often than the deer. See more deer around the peach and plum trees.

Its more of a northern thing because they don't feed corn like we do and have to rely on other methods.
Make sure you plant a male and female tree. The fruits grow only on the females. and if you don't know what a pucker factor is,
eat one that isn't ripe.

Same here. I am covered up in those things. I can tell you this much.. getting rid of them is a PITA.

Never planted any of them but we have a good stand of native ones on the ranch. From what I can tell they only eat the fruit, so it doesn't provide a food source year round, really only for a short time period; however, it appears the deer like them as before the fruit ripened the bushes were grown up with grass 3-4 foot high and now they are beat down to bare ground around every one of them on the place.

I picked up a few seed pods from our iron wood trees this weekend, supposed to be a preferred browse species, going to see if I can't sprout them and plant at my home place.