If limes are green, how do you know when they're ripe?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:16 pm
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.
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Re: If limes are green, how do you know when they're ripe?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:47 pm
Cerveses keep lining up next to the pot the tree is in?
Re: If limes are green, how do you know when they're ripe?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 2:02 am
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.
Re: If limes are green, how do you know when they're ripe?
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:13 pm
Oh yeah, they're softer and getting lighter colored. Thanks.