Winter Sky - more questions about reds??
The brick brown Win 6T in the picture above was pretty firm. I let them all ripen for a long time "fully" ripen and it is difficult to tell with such a slow and firm fruit. Ok it's true I ignored them, sitting in a bowl on the counter.
So I was a bit surprised to see that Win 6T turned completely red. It was a different shade of red than its neighbour, still with a hint of brick in it. Cut open, the gel was not green at all. No trace of green remaining. This left me to wonder... was it a black at all? or just a very green unripe red?
In the pic below, ripe colors after a long wait, and sliced view of 6T and the darker red 3T. Notice that there is a band of dark red flesh on the outside under the cuticle. It is very obvious in the larger fruit, that this is not cuticle itself but a band of flesh which is darker red.
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