I love avocados but they are always so iffy. Either too ripe or not at all. Usually I bring the unripe ones home and either let sit or put in a paper bag for a day and they are ripe. I now have two sitting in a paper bag for 5 days and they still are not ripe. Didn't really seem that far off when I bought them. Any good ideas for ripening? Thanks.

Maybe putting them in a bag with an apple.

Bananas will ripen them.

This time of the year is hard to find good avocados. Hard to tell where they come from because this is not the season. Sometimes they feel hard on the outside and they are over done when you cut into them. Keep trying.

My sister lived in Mexico for 20 years and she had avacado trees on her place and she says that you have to pick off the stem end - the little hard end of the avacado and then put it in a paper bag and it will ripen faster.

HTH

So, think I'll go for broke and pick the end off, then put in the bag with an apple AND a banana.

I gave up on one not long ago --- and even though it was hard, I cut into it....it was perfect!!!!!

We have a tree. Hundreds of them some seasons! It took us a year to perfect the ripening. We don't use any bags, they just ripen on the counter.

I would so love to have an avocado tree! I could eat avocado every day and never grow tired of it.

Mine ripen on the counter.

We are lucky in California.

NO KIDDING
You have orange trees, too!
And calla lilies the size of plates.
Sigh.

I love avocados too. They are sometimes iffy to ripen, but when you get a good one, it's perfection! I like this color chart for choosing: http://www.theamazingavocado.com/tip...g-and-storing/

My grocery only recently started carrying ripe avocados. Before, you could only find rock hard, green ones and then you had to wait five days to eat it. I always wondered what they did with the ripened fruit.

hahaha... this reminds me of the time I read about burying unripe avocados in Flour. Did I put some flour into a paper bag? no. I put the avocado directly into my big tupperware (that holds a 5lbs) and returned said tupperware to my cupboard. Four months later... when I went to bake my Christmas Pies... "What is This???" The flour ripened it alright. hahahahaha.....

ditto. Avocado sandwiches, avocado dip, avocado in salad, eat like candy! Very expensive here. I hate it when I open and it is too ripe!

:lol: :lol: :lol: That is really funny! Guess I won't be trying that method! :-)

Yup. Hubby spend most of the day yesterday making bottled, fresh squeezed OJ.

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And amazing roses and nice weather and the beach and mountains. I wanna be there!!! Arethe price of homes all as much as shown on HGTV when people are looking at homes to buy? Seems all homes (small ones) are at least 400,000 plus, usually much more. Wages can't be THAT much higher can they? In Ohio we can easily buy a very nice home for 200,000 and less.

Although the market has dumped here in CA. It's still one of the more expensive states. But worth it! The house next to us just sold for $600,000 in a bad market.

Are the wages really high? Otherwise how can anyone afford it?

You could ask the same thing for HI and other states. No, the wages aren't super high. I wish!!