Ripens

The crop ripens and is removed from fields faster and yields good harvests.

Each peach must maintain a little firmness so the fruit ripens just as it reaches buyers on the Front Range without going past its prime.

The harvest is also labor intensive, as each fruit ripens at its own pace, necessitating harvesters to check the plants daily.

The variations may be subtle (perhaps it ripens a bit earlier), or it may wears its diversity like a badge (a multicoloured cob of corn, say).

Tobacco ripens from the ground up, so you had to pick the leafs from the bottom nodes.

As the plantain ripens, it becomes sweeter and its colour changes from green to yellow to black, just like bananas.

Fruit ripens mid to late winter and always crops very heavily, making a spectacular display against the dark green foliage.

It began a series starring Ed and Ambrose Hunter, and depicts how a young man gradually ripens into a detective under the tutelage of his uncle, an ex–private eye now working as a carnival concessionaire.

It normally ripens up to two weeks earlier than Cabernet Sauvignon.

There are several different kinds of potatoes: the most appreciated is the new potato, a potato which ripens in early summer, and is enjoyed at the traditional mid-summer feast.

The time of harvesting is a crucial decision because the grape quickly begins to lose acidity as it ripens.

The wines of Provence are grown under demanding conditions; hot weather and abundant sunshine (Toulon, near Bandol, has the most sunshine of any city in France) which ripens the grapes quickly; little rain, and the mistral.

When a caprifig ripens, another caprifig must be ready to be pollinated.