Will deer eat Persimmon LEAVES?

[tbgascorer]

Will be planting 30, 3-5ft. saplings soon. I know they'll eat the fruit, but will they eat the buds/leaves? I plan on protecting the bark with plastic tubes but I was wondering if I need to cage the whole thing until established.

[Cajun Blake]

if they're hungry enough and develope an appetite for the fresh forage and leaves, deer will eat anything

I'd spray them with a deer deterent just to be safe

[Murph]

Yes during this drought they ate all the lower persimmon leaves on my place in Blanco.

[JW]

How much did you get 30 of em for. Im wantin to plant some at the back of our pasture.

[lovemylegacy]

Yep

[Stoof]

Fence them! They will nibble on the plastic also.

[tbgascorer]

How much did you get 30 of em for. Im wantin to plant some at the back of our pasture.

Friend of mine grew them for me along with his live oaks, so they've been potted and watered since birth

[gonehuntin]

Down to every last leaf.