Picture of my Butia fruit ; when will they ripen ?

[WSimpson]

My fruit is hard as a rock and not sweet at all so when do they get all sweet and ready for jelly or whatever ?

Thanks 

 

[OutpostPalms]

They will ripen and turn to an orange or yellow color. 

[WSimpson]

1 hour ago, OutpostPalms said:

They will ripen and turn to an orange or yellow color. 

Thanks 

They sure are hard but I guess they look normal .

[zero]

8 minutes ago, WSimpson said:

Thanks 

They sure are hard but I guess they look normal .

They do look normal - just not nearly ripe yet.  August or September I would expect them to ripen and when they ripen you can smell the sweetness and they'll start dropping off.  Mine is weighed down so much that the infructescence is almost touching the ground!

[JohnAndSancho]

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[zero]

Here's my Butia fruit this morning - just starting to change color.  Will they turn yellow?  Orange?  Maybe even red?  Time will tell.  Still a couple of weeks before they're ripe.  This is only one infructescence of 4 with fruits!  I believe @WSimpson's Butia flowered 3-4 weeks after mine.

[WSimpson]

8 hours ago, Fusca said:

Here's my Butia fruit this morning - just starting to change color.  Will they turn yellow?  Orange?  Maybe even red?  Time will tell.  Still a couple of weeks before they're ripe.  This is only one infructescence of 4 with fruits!  I believe @WSimpson's Butia flowered 3-4 weeks after mine.

Wow , That is the mother load of fruit .

Will

[Harry’s Palms]

My Butia Oderata fruit turned a yellow /orange color when it ripened. The fruit almost fell into my hand when I touched it. It tasted like Apricot to me , but very stringy and not much there , mostly seed. I cut down a large Syagrus Romanzoffiana that was growing next to it and since then it just flowers, no fruit🙁 Harry

[SeanK]

3 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

My Butia Oderata fruit turned a yellow /orange color when it ripened. The fruit almost fell into my hand when I touched it. It tasted like Apricot to me , but very stringy and not much there , mostly seed. I cut down a large Syagrus Romanzoffiana that was growing next to it and since then it just flowers, no fruit🙁 Harry

Hmm. So were the old seeds hybrids?

[Harry’s Palms]

@SeanK Not sure but likely. There is a volunteer that sprouted next to the parent so time will tell . It definitely looks like a Butia seedling . Harry

A volunteer that sprouted next to the Butia Oderata. Already has a blue / green tint.

[zero]

@WSimpson, normally the fruits completely change color from green to orange, yellow or red but mine ripened up just a couple of days after they started changing color.  They started dropping off partially green and part orange.  Pictured is less than half from that one bract and other fruits are starting to ripen!  Plenty enough for a batch of jelly.

[JohnAndSancho]

20 minutes ago, Fusca said:

@WSimpson, normally the fruits completely change color from green to orange, yellow or red but mine ripened up just a couple of days after they started changing color.  They started dropping off partially green and part orange.  Pictured is less than half from that one bract and other fruits are starting to ripen!  Plenty enough for a batch of jelly.

I kinda got the impression I'll get shot if I showed up with a ladder to try and get fruits from this one by Sancho's vet.