mangoes can be picked, when the inside is " butter " colour.
Up here in north QLD, once thee is blush, fruit can be picked in 4 weeks.

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"Old and Cranky" > wrote in message
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> I think I have now answered my original question. I picked a mango when
it
> had just started to redden, although still really hard. Now 8 days later
it
> was ripe. Why "was"? I ate it and it was delicious!
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> Out now to pick the remaining green mangoes!
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> "Old and Cranky" > wrote in message
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> > I have a small mango tree with a rapidly reducing number of mangos. The
> > mangoes are not yey ripe, but already the possums have eaten about three
> > quarters of the crop. The amngoes are reddening on the top.
> >
> > Can they be picked at this stage, and left to ripen inside?
> >
> > TIA
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