| Apples ripen quite differently from plums. Apples are what are called climacteric fruits and they can ripen to some degree off the plant. Plants are not climacteric and might soften, even sweeten, off the tree, but this is more akin to incipient rot that true ripening. That said, apples harvested at their peak right from the tree taste, in my experience, quite different and better, than apples harvested early and left to ripen off the plant. My Macoun's, which I harvest in the morning just as they drop taste like a different fruit than Macoun's that I can buy. Lee Reich, PhD Books by Lee Reich: Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden A Northeast Gardener's Year The Pruning Book Weedless Gardening On Jun 30, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Thomas Olenio wrote:
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