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When to pick oranges
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I am in Perth and have a heavily laden navel orange tree, I want to know how do I know when the fruit is truly ripe. Last year we picked fruit only to find they looked ripe but were still a bit sour. Thanks Sandra |
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When to pick oranges
Sandra Bodycoat wrote:
Hi I am in Perth and have a heavily laden navel orange tree, I want to know how do I know when the fruit is truly ripe. Last year we picked fruit only to find they looked ripe but were still a bit sour. Thanks Sandra colour and feel , should be an even colour and of course not like a rock , then try one some oranges will always be a little tart but table ripening helps |
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Thanks that all makes sense, I would just hate to waste them, they look
fabulous. "atec 7 7" "atec wrote in message ... Sandra Bodycoat wrote: Hi I am in Perth and have a heavily laden navel orange tree, I want to know how do I know when the fruit is truly ripe. Last year we picked fruit only to find they looked ripe but were still a bit sour. Thanks Sandra colour and feel , should be an even colour and of course not like a rock , then try one some oranges will always be a little tart but table ripening helps |
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Sandra Bodycoat wrote:
Thanks that all makes sense, I would just hate to waste them, they look fabulous. I hope they go well , do you know which type ? I have a nice peach tree from a very old breed which is going nuts and every limb is laden with huge hard fruit... I sure hope the bats don't get to them (Brisbane) "atec 7 7" "atec wrote in message ... Sandra Bodycoat wrote: Hi I am in Perth and have a heavily laden navel orange tree, I want to know how do I know when the fruit is truly ripe. Last year we picked fruit only to find they looked ripe but were still a bit sour. Thanks Sandra colour and feel , should be an even colour and of course not like a rock , then try one some oranges will always be a little tart but table ripening helps |
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On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:01:51 +0800, Sandra Bodycoat wrote:
Hi I am in Perth and have a heavily laden navel orange tree, I want to know how do I know when the fruit is truly ripe. Last year we picked fruit only to find they looked ripe but were still a bit sour. When ALL the greeness is gone from the fruit. Look closely. Pick one and try it for sweetness. -- Great advances in Debian Linux; post a bug report and get spam in three days. |
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I used to have a mandarin tree, and my (grown up) daughter is so nuts
about mandis I could get weeks of entertainment out of her by suggesting, week after week, that she pick one to see how it was. She'd also eat the sour ones, with fantastic facial expressions, each week announcing they were better than the week before. Could go on for weeks like this! She finally got wise to me and told me to taste test them myself... terryc wrote: On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:01:51 +0800, Sandra Bodycoat wrote: Hi I am in Perth and have a heavily laden navel orange tree, I want to know how do I know when the fruit is truly ripe. Last year we picked fruit only to find they looked ripe but were still a bit sour. When ALL the greeness is gone from the fruit. Look closely. Pick one and try it for sweetness. |
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On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:21:04 +1000, jules wrote:
I used to have a mandarin tree, and my (grown up) daughter is so nuts about mandis I could get weeks of entertainment out of her by suggesting, week after week, that she pick one to see how it was. She'd also eat the sour ones, with fantastic facial expressions, each week announcing they were better than the week before. Could go on for weeks like this! She finally got wise to me and told me to taste test them myself... lol, swmbo wrinkles her eyebrows when she eats sour stuff. so citrus is usually all mine. -- Great advances in Debian Linux; post a bug report and get spam in three days. |
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When to pick oranges
"Sandra Bodycoat" wrote in message . au... Hi I am in Perth and have a heavily laden navel orange tree, I want to know how do I know when the fruit is truly ripe. Last year we picked fruit only to find they looked ripe but were still a bit sour. Thanks Sandra At this time of the year in Perth the navels have just about all gone, they ripen in June/July and are sweet around that time. More likely your oranges are Valencias. Good for juicing, not as good for eating as Navels but still reasonable. I found that mine are still sour at this time of year and don't "sweeten up" until late August/ September. |
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When to pick oranges
No they are definitely navels, and they are ripening.
"Rod" wrote in message ... "Sandra Bodycoat" wrote in message . au... Hi I am in Perth and have a heavily laden navel orange tree, I want to know how do I know when the fruit is truly ripe. Last year we picked fruit only to find they looked ripe but were still a bit sour. Thanks Sandra At this time of the year in Perth the navels have just about all gone, they ripen in June/July and are sweet around that time. More likely your oranges are Valencias. Good for juicing, not as good for eating as Navels but still reasonable. I found that mine are still sour at this time of year and don't "sweeten up" until late August/ September. |
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