Today i found another softer fruit,one of the bigger ones,i made the mistake of opening the net casing that i had put on it, from the bottom, the fruit just slided and detached from the stem. I dont know if i would be able to ripen it with such a big hole in the middle, i placed it in a nylon bag with a tiny hole for some air. The net did prevent it from falling so that was good, but i will now remove the nets/organza bags from the top and cut the stem off.
One thing i dont understand is, how do people in orchards harvest them, at what stage of the fruit development? They dont wait for them to fall of or get soft, right? I mean the storebought ones come from Spain, and most of them are rock hard, so they harvest them green in order to have some shelf life whille in transit, but then they are still good tasting when alowwed to soften. Teoretically, they should be good also when harvested quite green and rock hard?
I feel that this fruiting session will be for the compost bin, since i dont know what i'm doing ...
The other ones i picked are starting to soften also, i should have them all soft enough to eat in a few days. I hope for them to just be at least edible..