When are sapodillas ripe and when to pick them?

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1. What does it mean to be mature?

2. When to pick?

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You can pinch it with your hands and feel that the sapodilla has softened, which means it is ripe. You can remove the peel and eat it directly, and the taste will be sweeter. Unripe fruits will taste astringent and hard, so they cannot be eaten and need to be ripened. It can bloom several times a year, bear multiple fruits, and have multiple harvest periods. But it is usually mature and picked at the end of September or early October.

1. What does it mean to be mature?

1. What does it mean to be ripe?

Unripe fruit will taste astringent. To judge whether the fruit is ripe or not, you can pinch it with your hands. If you feel that it has softened, it means it is ripe. , you can remove the peel and eat it directly, the taste will be sweeter, and it can also supplement calcium. If it does not feel soft but is still relatively hard, it cannot be eaten and needs to be ripened. You can put it in a rice jar, or you can put it with apples and wrap it in a plastic bag. You can sprinkle some water inside and leave it for a few days until it feels soft before eating.

2. When to pick

It can bloom several times a year and bear multiple fruits, so there are multiple harvest periods within a year. But it usually matures around the end of September or the beginning of October. This is the period of large-scale picking. If there are no ripe fruits left on the tree, pick them after they are ripe, otherwise the quality will deteriorate. When picking, please pay attention. The outer skin of the fruit is thin and may be damaged if you are not careful, so pick slowly and be careful during transportation.

2. When to pick?

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