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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Will my figs ripen?

When using a refractometer to test ripeness, I was always taught to test the bottom of the cluster as that seems to be the part that is last to ripen in many varieties.  Oddly, in my Glenora, I frequently find three unripe berries on the very bottom of the cluster even when the rest of the cluster is ripe.  It's like a trademark of the variety, here.
-Lon Rombough
>
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From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 12:28:58 -0400
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Will my figs ripen?

> Hi Bert,
>
> In the past you have said that the best way to check ripeness in grapes is taste.  But do all
> grapes in a cluster reach the same taste/ripeness, at the same time?
>
> Being a grape novice, I see a lot of color variation between grapes in a bunch.  Also,  how
> "ripe" are your grapes in your zone (generaly speaking_?  My Eona's are like green peas, while
> Vanessa and St Croix are much closer to harvest (days away).
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> Helga and Bert Dunn wrote:
>
> > Good morning
> > Ripening at the present-
> > Named Varieties--Desert King, white Adriatic, Chicago Hardy
> > Suitcase varieties-Mississauga, Savice, New Jersey, Albion #2
> > I leave them outside until all the leaves fall off (like deciduous trees),
> > then into the rear of my garage
> > In  early March , in spite of very little light and about 50-55'F they start
> > to send out green shoot/leaves. A few have berbas although they have to date
> > not ripened.
> > I built a trolley cart out of an old Bar B Que frame and bought two metal
> > trolleys. If the day is nice I shove them outside, bring in at night 'til
> > weather is decent.
> > Cheers        Bert
> >
> > Bert Dunn   RR4 Tottenham   Ont    zone 4b
> > www.hardygrapes.tottenham.on.ca
> >
> > see also http://www.littlefatwino.com/bertslist.html
> >
> > THINK BLENDING, NOT VARIETALS
> >
> > -- Original Message -----
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 8:54 AM
> >
> > > bert:
> > >
> > > what varieties ripen on the tree for you? when do you put them out in the
> > spring & put them back
> > > in the garage in the fall?
> > >
> > > mIEKAL
> >
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> --
> Thomas Olenio
> Ontario, Canada
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