Mid-May 2023. In 2023, the local merchants in Tangqi, Hangzhou predicted the picking time of loquat, which showed that loquat entered the mature picking period in mid-May and lasted until early June. The selection method of loquat is that the mature loquat is orange or yellow, fresh and sweet, and the loquat with cyan or green spots is immature, sour but not sweet, and has a bad flavor.