AT A GLANCE
When is the harvest time for apricots?
The apricot harvest time is in mid-summer, usually from mid-July to mid-August, depending on the apricot variety, flowering time and site conditions. Apricots are ready to harvest when they are deep yellow to orange-yellow and appear soft.
It's apricot harvest time in midsummer from mid-July to mid-August. In dependence of heyday, apricot variety and local site conditions there may be slight deviations in time:
Apricots (Prunus armeniaca) are ready to be harvested when the shell is open rich yellow to deep orange-yellow and red cheeks appear on the sunny side of the fruit. A pressure test clears the last doubts about the ripeness for consumption. Gently press the apricot with your finger. Gives the shell and feels that pulp soft on, the harvest time can begin.
Tip
Apricots from our own harvest continue to ripen
As soon as you harvest an apricot, the fruit finishes its ripening process. There is still hope for apricots with hard, inedible flesh. Within two to three days of harvesting takes place a marginal
post-ripening instead of. Simply wrap a hard apricot in newspaper with a ripe peach or ripe apple. The escaping ripening gas ethylene intensifies the post-ripening of the apricot. The trick doesn't work for apricots from the supermarket.
