Fruit Maturity Quotes

I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

My problem, I try to teach my kids to eat healthy food. But you get a cantaloupe, and you don't know when it's going to come of age. You have no idea - that period between when it's like, hard as a rock to when it's smushy inside, is about ten minutes.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

Don't ripen picked tomatoes in the sun. Put underripe tomatoes and stone fruits in a paper bag in cool, dark place, and magic happens. And never, ever store them in the fridge: they turn mushy and flavorless.