Re: Cutting the Bunch?
Kathy,
You can tell by time. Most are mature 6 months after flowering. Some are a little faster, some can take 9-12 months (Saba was nearly 12). You have to experiment with your first bunch of each variety to see what its' particular characteristics are. I cut the first had at 6 months on any variety that I haven't had fruit from before. You have to start somewhere, and that seems to work pretty well.
The second way is size. Most varieties swell in diameter when they are getting ripe and are a little more rounded and less angular. Some are almost imperceptible, but FHIA-17 nearly doubled in diameter.
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