len gardener wrote:
well ben it may ultimately come down to you mate,

usually i pick them when they are starting to turn usually a yellowish
green colour. now i put them on a tray under a tea towel so the gas
from the riper ones helps to ripen the others. but where i can i leave
them until they are fairly red maybe not ready to eat red but will be
the next day or 2 ok.

but if you have bird problems then the best time to pick is when they
start to get that whitish appearnace to parts of them ok. now to keep
the birds away so you can get more ripening time on the vine and by my
reckoning that much more flavour cover you plants with some netting
type curtain materila ok, or make scare crows from wine bladders, just
you gotta suffer drinkin all the wine hey yuk lol. ost birds don't
like the brite red/orange colours so if you can put a splash of these
colours on those once emptied wine bladders will help.

now if you live anywhere near me i reckon we could have a good time
emptying wine caskes huh??

enjoy and have fun

len


This is what i was led to believe, also.