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zipcode · August 14, 2018

The brown one is a few weeks past. Not sure what it will be good for, it will be very seedy and probably bitter. Maybe in a ratatouille.
The other one is hard to say, it looks way lighter than a BB should be, but maybe it's because it was well shaded. If it's hard it is probably a bit passed.

Size is not a good indicator, on the same plant you can get big or small, like with tomatoes. A very good rule, but probably hard to actually follow is time from flowering, which is 3-3.5 weeks in the summer which leads to small, not yet well developed seeds. Another indicator is fattness, if it's getting fat it's getting old. Depends on the expectations for that variety, but BB should not be that round.

August 14, 2018	#5
zipcode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6 Posts: 1,582	The brown one is a few weeks past. Not sure what it will be good for, it will be very seedy and probably bitter. Maybe in a ratatouille. The other one is hard to say, it looks way lighter than a BB should be, but maybe it's because it was well shaded. If it's hard it is probably a bit passed. Size is not a good indicator, on the same plant you can get big or small, like with tomatoes. A very good rule, but probably hard to actually follow is time from flowering, which is 3-3.5 weeks in the summer which leads to small, not yet well developed seeds. Another indicator is fattness, if it's getting fat it's getting old. Depends on the expectations for that variety, but BB should not be that round.