The pomegranate ripens from September to October each year, which means it is ready for picking around August 15 on the lunar calendar. Pomegranates can be picked and eaten when their outer skin has lost most of its green color and turned reddish-yellow.

Marks of pomegranate ripening:

(1) The skin of the fruit changes from green to yellow, the colored varieties are fully colored, and the surface of the fruit appears glossy.

(2) Fruit ribs appear.

(3) The red or silver-white needle awns in the pulp cells are fully visible.

(4) The seeds are full and the soluble solids content of the fruit juice reaches the concentration inherent in the variety. Mature fruit harvested before the rain, rainy weather prohibit harvesting.

Pomegranate picking notes

1, picking, diseased fruit and cracked fruit should be picked by a person, centralized treatment, to prevent the spread of disease infection.

2, rainy day picking, fruit calyx tube is easy to accumulate water, easy to invite pathogenic bacteria invasion and cause rot, therefore, should be picked on a sunny day.

3, harvesting, a hand to support the branch, a hand picking fruit, gently pick and put, to prevent mechanical damage to the pomegranate fruit. The fruit is squeezed and internal injuries occur, from the appearance of not see, but in the storage and transportation process, broken out of the juice will affect the other unbroken seeds, so that the deterioration.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Pomegranate