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Old Oct 23, 2025 | 9:59 pm
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Originally Posted by philemer
Then how do you know if it's ripe (juicy and ready to eat)? Smell? I've always bought them when most of the green color changes to yellow and always been happy.
Feel is best. He showed us the specific locations to test, and an example of ripe/not ripe to feel the difference.

The plantation harvests a sample and does sugar content testing to determine which fields to pick when. We saw a field ready to be picked, and one not. Colors were all over the place in both.

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