Blue Banana Honeyberry Taste Test

Tasting Blue Banana honeyberry for the first time. The taste is more greenish gooseberry than raspberry crossed with a mild blueberry. These bushes took temps down into the teens while bloomed out and still set some fruit. They are growing well with not much special care and are showing a lot of promise.
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[@lukeonderko8696]

You really gotta let em sit on the bush for about 2 weeks after they turn blue and they are so sweet and great. If you eat em right after they turn color they are sour and almost bitter

[@uglyapplehomestead1310]

I've heard that online. Problem for me is I am not paying attention to when they turn blue, so I'm more or less going off of firmness. If they are firm feeling, I wait until they're pretty soft. The insides are colored up with no green, so I think I'm in the ballpark of them being ripe. Hopefully next year I'll have quite a few more to play around with nailing how to tell when they're ripe.

[@connerty_meadows_farm]

@@uglyapplehomestead1310 if you shake the bush and they fall off they are ripe, if you have to pick them, they are not. when ripe they are very sweet

[@douglasnance8238]

That's a much smaller berry than normal for that variety. I'm thinking it may not have been properly pollinated. Which would also explain the tartness. My blue bananas are super sweet with only a hint of sour when they are ripe. It typically takes 2 to 3 weeks after they turn blue before they are fully ripe.