HonoluluGirl
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If limes are green, how do you know when they're ripe?

If limes are green, how do you know when they're ripe? I have limes for the first time, and I don't know when to pick them.

tomc
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Cerveses keep lining up next to the pot the tree is in? ;)

imafan26
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Limes will actually start to turn yellow and fall off the tree when they get really ripe, but like lemons, I feel them. If they are very hard and shiny green, they are very young and they don't have a lot of juice in them. Limes will get a little softer when they get ripe.

HonoluluGirl
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Oh yeah, they're softer and getting lighter colored. Thanks.



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