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Yes, this. There's a certain way that ripe blakcberries (and raspberries) feel and pull away from the plant. After a while you just sort of understand the tacti
by UncleOxidant 1y ago
Yes, this. There's a certain way that ripe blakcberries (and raspberries) feel and pull away from the plant. After a while you just sort of understand the tactile sense of ripeness. So while this might pick blackberries without damaging them, I doubt they're going to be peak ripeness. Blackberries don't continue to ripen after they're picked so it's not like tomatoes where they can pick them kind of green and they ripen up by the time they hit the store.
- dmurray 1y agoFor blackberries at home or in hedgerows, picking only the black ones has always been good enough for me. For raspberries, it's important that they come off the stem readily. Maybe commercial pickers need to optimise differently and could pick every day and get every berry at its absolute peak? But I doubt that's the state of the art with human pickers at the moment: they get paid minimum wage and are assessed primarily on the weight they pick.