They only ripen while attached to the cactus. Best is when the scales/tentacles turn slightly brown. Once you pick it the flavor can only degrade. Grocery stores always have them picked too soon because the outside looks better but it will guaranteed taste like dirt.
But even optimally ripe, at best it’s just a big kiwi with different colour and not even very different texture. Some ever so slight difference between colours but I doubt most people could tell. I had red with white inside, red with red inside, and yellow with white inside. The yellow exterior is a different shape too.
Source: jumped through MAD hoops to grow them in a tent indoors. They all died after the second harvest but the ones that never fruited in the bay window are still going.
They only ripen while attached to the cactus. Best is when the scales/tentacles turn slightly brown. Once you pick it the flavor can only degrade. Grocery stores always have them picked too soon because the outside looks better but it will guaranteed taste like dirt.
But even optimally ripe, at best it’s just a big kiwi with different colour and not even very different texture. Some ever so slight difference between colours but I doubt most people could tell. I had red with white inside, red with red inside, and yellow with white inside. The yellow exterior is a different shape too.
Source: jumped through MAD hoops to grow them in a tent indoors. They all died after the second harvest but the ones that never fruited in the bay window are still going.