Before the rut, bowhunters and early season deer hunters know it’s all about food. A preferred food source is key if a hunter wants a shot at a mature buck, and no food source is more preferred than ripe and dropping persimmons.
There’s a reason persimmons are known as deer candy.
Hunters can make sure they have this preferred food source in just the right spots by planting Deer Candy Grafted Female American Persimmon Trees from Chestnut Hill Outdoors. A Deer Candy Persimmon from Chestnut Hill Outdoors is easy to grow and will bear fruit deer can’t resist in just two to three years.
The Deer Candy Grafted Female American Persimmon tree from Chestnut Hill Outdoors is a medium-sized persimmon with a fruit that has a sweet, nutty flavor deer and other wildlife can’t resist. This very productive persimmon drops fruit early in September and October. It is cold hardy for Zones 5-9.
The Deer Candy Persimmon grows 30 to 50 feet tall with a spread of 20 to 35 feet. It grows best in full sun, and it does not need a pollinator. Landowners can plant a single tree in their favorite food plot or hunting location and have a deer magnet for decades.
Landowners and hunters who manage their own property know food plots and supplemental feed are a huge advantage for better hunting, but an easy, effective way to attract and hold wildlife with little effort and longevity is to plant trees that bear fruit wildlife can’t resist.
Chestnut Hill Outdoors provides the best varieties and best quality food plot trees to help landowners improve their land and its carrying capacity for wildlife. Chestnut Hill Outdoors is a division of Chestnut Hill Tree Farm, a nationally recognized leader in the introduction and development of new varieties of nut, fruit and flowering trees. Chestnut Hill bred and introduced the patented blight-resistant Dunstan Chestnuts, the most widely grown chestnut tree in America.
Deer seek out persimmons, and once they find a tree that is dropping, they will visit regularly until the persimmons play out.