WVMountaineerJack
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CG, if those are the berries you are picking they are way to green, its better to pick them when most of the head is ripe and there are only a few if any green ones still left on the head. Even though they berries turn color they still have to be soft to be ripe. It can be tough to figure out, we put up some pictures of ripe and unripe berries on our webage. Make sure you wash these in a bucket of cold water, the unripe ones will mostly float to the surface and the ripe ones will sink to the bottom.
Crackedcork
Crackedcork
well, it just so happens...all this talk of elderberries and surely to goodness there are some around here in good ole' west kentucky. this is what i've found and i hope my i.d. is positive as i've already stripped off 1/2 a baggy's worth and have 4 or 5 large heads waiting for confirmation from this group. it's funny, i've just never noticed them
they're so unassuming...
