The best time to harvest grapefruit

Grapefruit is only picked when it is ripe and should be picked when it is sunny.

The time when pomelos are ripe to harvest in the period from October 10 to November 15 of the lunar calendar has to be finished, otherwise the pomelo will fall.

If the pomelo is left to fall, the fruit is easily bruised and scratched, leading to crushed shrimp, easy to rot and quickly rot.

Therefore, the best way to pick pomelos so as not to get bruised or scratched is to climb a tree and have someone below to help you with the fruit. For pomelos on high branches, a pole with a pot must be used to prevent the pomelo hut from falling to the ground.

According to the senses and experience of pomelo growers, ripe pomelos will have a cool aroma, yellow skin, and will fall off when touched.

How to preserve pomelos after harvesting naturally without drugs:

Many pomelo growing families often share that preserving pomelos after harvest is extremely simple without the need for drugs.

First, you have to choose a suitable place for pomelos. Usually, grapefruit is only suitable for cool and airtight places because if there is a lot of wind, it will cause the grapefruit to quickly wilt.

Then arrange the pomelos. This is also very important!

After the pomelo is harvested, a bottom layer of pomelos will be placed close to the floor, the pomelos are arranged in an upward direction.

The second layer onwards will have to turn the pomelo upside down. Just like that, one layer on top of another until the end.

It should be remembered that during the preservation of pomelo, every 20 to 30 days, the fruit must be turned from top to bottom, from the top layer to the bottom layer to be evenly distributed.

If done well from picking pomelos to preserving in this natural way, surely the preservation of pomelos is completely natural without the use of any drugs.

And the time to keep pomelo can last from 4-6 months. At that time, the rind has shrunk, but the core is still fresh, the pulp is juicy, the white pulp is thin and crispy. Especially, the taste of grapefruit has not been reduced, there is no difference compared to the grapefruit that has just been picked on the tree.