If you place almost ripen but a little astringent Diospyros fruits to refrigerator (1-4 Celsius),
after one day astringency will disappear.
Actually, I am yet to grow a Persimmon tree as I live in the tropics.
From the very little information I got from the internet, I always wanted to grow non-astringent varieties only.
But you and Oscar made me to think about the other option also 
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Astringent types get a lot sweeter than non astringent types. The real advantage of non astringent types in my opinion is that you can also eat them in the hard crunchy stage.
Don't know if it's true that birds avoid astringent type kaki fruits.
Topic: Please identify this Diospyros species for me (Read 9580 times)