California Hachiya Persimmons Organic (5 lbs)

A Central California native, I have such fond memories of baking "all things persimmon" every fall with my grandmother and great grandmother, and then for many years beyond that with my own children and grandchildren. When my hubby and I moved to the east coast in 2015, I was so disappointed, that come fall, I searched high and low, but could not find persimmons anywhere. In fact, my mother-in-law, had never even heard of, let alone seen one. For 9 years I have mourned my loss of fall persimmons, so I was so excited to find them of all places, on Amazon! Not even thinking twice, (and regardless of the fact that I was paying a pretty price for what I had for so many years plucked from trees in my own yard), I ordered a 5 pound box and kept my fingers crossed.I am delighted to say that my persimmons arrived a couple hours ago, and I have been doing the happy dance ever since. There were nine little orange beauties in a carefully packed box, all without a single blemish or flaw! Now they are all nestled nicely into brown paper bags to finish ripening before they are baked into recipes passed down through my family for generations. This Thanksgiving one of our many blessings will include my great grandmother's (steamed) persimmon pudding.If need persimmons and cannot find them anywhere, I would absolutely recommend this supplier for the quality of their fruit as well as the speed in which they arrived at my doorstep. Many, many happy thanks to them!

The Hachiya persimmon is usually extremely juicy and sweet once it is ripe; I received this batch from California on Nov. 3rd. It is now more than 2 weeks later, and they are now rotten, but the once that were salvaged, are still very bitter. I am not sure if they were picked too soon or just not a good batch. Will likely not be ordering again.

I’ve bought persimmons from this seller several times over the last few years and in spite of the other negative reviews about this seller I’ve never experienced anything but outstanding fruit every time!I often think some people like to find fault with If anything they buy on Amazon. Many times I have taken a chance and purchased an item with poor reviews that turned out to be a quality product at a fair price! Based on this experience I tend to take reviews with a grain of salt. Amazon is so good about returns you have nothing to lose if you happen to get the one off poor product so come on people quit finding fault for the sake of finding fault.To finish my review even though I have ordered persimmons twice already this fall and they are nearly gone the quality is so good that I am ordering again before they are gone again until next fall. That says it all!! I’d like to add onto this review. Like I said I took a leap of faith and ordered again even though my last order a year ago was never delivered nor refunded. I’m happy to report that I received the order I placed and for the most part the fruit was of good quality with a couple exceptions. The fruit was much smaller this year but once they ripen they should be very good. Two were close to being ripe but rotted before getting fully ripe. A few others were smashed all over the inside of the box and the box was very beat up. I wrote the seller about the poor packaging and spoiled fruit and never got a response but today Oct 30th another box of persimmons shows up with no note. Packaging was good this time and the fruit inside were large like I have received in previous years. So big thanks and shout out to this seller!

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Very good price and good reviews.

Persimmons were very nice, but there was no packaging to prevent the fruit smashing around and making a mess. They need to add something to keep them apart! Two years in a row. I was able to save 8 of 10. Hard ones were OK but those that were beginning to soften made a big mess from the trip from CA to CT. Hope they read this!

Taste good but with too high alum content

I was sent 8 large persimmons and they had large black spots that I understand is from sunlight. The black spots did not have any bad affect on the persimmons. They ripened in a short time, and they were very good. The last to ripen did so unevenly, so I experienced some pucker affect from a few. I will order next year later in the season but before the price goes up; the last time I looked it was $53. The price when I ordered was $36.

Like - when I ate into the ripe area it was good.Dislike - parts of the persimmon were rotting before the whole fruit could ripen. I would eat it as soon as I saw it ripen this way. However, some parts were still not ripe so I got sweet and bitter all at once.