My guess is that with the netting on, and being at the north end of the Little Trees, it slows ripening a good deal. I know when I planted them in 2020, the next year they were ripe and eaten in mid June. I think the same thing happened in 2022. (Not eaten by me!) I think I never got to taste one until 2023 or 2024….

Last year I got tobacco netting and put it on them. They continued to ripen into November…