Ontario Fruit Explorers

["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi Bert,

 

Mine have begun to lighten slightly and are starting to sag.  I am using the same test for picking figs I use on apples.  If I lift the fig and it comes off in my hand it is ripe, otherwise it needs more time.

 

A bird pecked one fig and evidently decided the figs needed more time for when it reached the pink fruit it quit pecking.

 

Both of my figs are yours.  LSU and Ischia.

 

The Ischia are behind the LSI in ripening.

 

Later,

Tom

 

“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is

 profound but because it's wrong." 

 Stephen J. Crothers

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From: labruscagrape-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:labruscagrape-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Burt Dunn
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:45 AM
To: Ontario Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [OFEX] Fig Afficiados

 

Tom, ripening time varies according to location of the plant. The ones in my glassed porch are ripe & being eaten now. The ones outside, 8 feet away, may not be ripe for another week or so .

If you have a LSU from me, it is LSU Purple. I am not sure if there is a LSU Green- I'd have to research it.

While we do not have a bumper crop of grapes this year, we have lots. Brix (on my refractometer) ranges from 13 (these are still sort of hard) to the ripe ones at Brix 20/21. Some varieties are already finished- V65163 & Vanessa for example. Some younger varieties fruited for the first time. Will be making some porch climber this month.

Tomatoes are late and pitiful as I was not able to look after them owning to my knee.

Cheers               Bert

 

Bert Dunn  Box 352   Schomberg   L0G 1T0    zone 4b/5a      905 880 4453
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From: Thomas Olenio

To: 'Ontario Fruit Explorers'

Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:58 PM

Hi Bert,

Question…  When do LSU green and Ischia ripen?

It is getting cool and mine are as green as grass.

Grapes are pitiful this year.  Small, tasteless, tart, nearly all seeds and skin.

 

Tomatoes are very late.  We did not begin eating Early Girl until September.

 

Crummy year for fruit.

 

We were even able to keep up with three zucchini plants!  So I guess global warming is self limiting.  More water vapor, more clouds, less heat gets through.  I guess the heat cycle and cool cycle are self regulating just like the magnetic field.  Imagine that.  Who would have thunk a planet that has been taking care of itself for over 4 billion years would keep on regulating itself. (smile)

 

People never learn.  No bunky mankind is not the center of the universe.  LOL  

 

Later,

Tom

 

“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is

 profound but because it's wrong." 

 Stephen J. Crothers

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