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Lloydminster/AB

So it happened to me again, I cull a fruit at 30 days old or so, let it sit outside for 2 or 3 weeks and open it up to find it full of what appears to be fully mature seeds. It is rare for me not to get seeds from such a fruit, in fact I can't remember not getting seeds from a young fruit that has sat for a while. Then I open up an old mature 100 day fruit and most of the time I only get a few seeds and many times no seeds. I think that the cocktail of hormones in a growing fruit delays seed development. In a young culled fruit the delay hormones stop but the development hormones are still present and in time the seeds finish without the need of being connected to a vine. Any thoughts? Is this only happening to me? I'm going to pay more attention to this in the future.

9/2/2012 12:34:15 AM

Minnesota

I heard 30-45 days and seeds are mature.

9/2/2012 3:11:19 PM

Lloydminster/AB

They can be mature at that age but in the ones I've cut off and checked immediately have a very high percentage of immature seeds. If I let them sit they are nearly all mature. I still think it might be a good idea to let any young fruit sit for a week or two , just in case there is some maturing going on no matter how silly it seems.

9/2/2012 8:16:01 PM