I have some aunt ruby's german green if you want to send an SASE - reg envy - not a bubble. just let me know. Barbi

Completely ripe Bearss Limes are YELLOW. They are normally picked before they are ripe for the commercial market because people expect limes to be green. Depending on how sour you want them, you can pick them anytime after they have reached full size. They will be better if you wait for them to start to turn yellow. They will eventually go completely yellow and then when completely ripe, they will fall off. Since you want limes to be sour, waiting until the very last is not necessary.

Aunt Ruby's German Green I have grown. Good but got very soft very fast. Seemed like should I look at a ARGG plant askance, that would be sufficient to cause its berries to bruise. Spears TN Green was the best G-W-R that I have grown. Cherokee Green is also worthy of consideration and pumps out the berries, least in my experience. Green Giant also has done well for me and has good flavor. I will attempt Humph this season. Tom8olvr will probably try Humph as well because she likes the name and I got a few seeds to her. Maybe I will assign the the saved Humph seed a name such as "Looking Glass Green". Not quite congruent with the name Humpty Dumpty, but you get my drift. I mayhaps prep some juice from the Greens... you know like invoking a reprise of some scenes from "The Exorcist". Reggie

I don't like the taste of Green Zeebra, along with many other folks but many in CA and elsewhere love it. What I do like is another green when ripe variety called Green Zebra Cherry, I like it a lot, and no, there's no known association with Green Zebra. Fruits were found in a small box of mixed cherries by Manfred Hahm in Germany, his seed site is linked to at Reinhard Kraft's superb site and Reinhard and he are good friends. They were able to trace it back to the Netherlands but that was it. It was named Green Zebra Cherry b'c the coloration on the exterior is the same as GZ, but there for many of us the comparison stops since for many of us GZC has great taste. My seeds for it were from Reinhard in Germany and I've been listing it in the SSE Yearbooks for several years as well as offering seeds in my annual seed offer elsewhere, as well as sending it for trial to the several seed sites where I know the owners well, have done so for many years, and trust what they offer. I've linked to Tania's page for it below, and if you scroll down to see seed sources you'll see lots of them and I was the seed source to most of them. Try it, I think many of you will love it, as most do. Not tart at all, has that spicy somewhat sweet taste that most find with most green when ripe varieties. Carolyn Here is a link that might be useful: Green Zebra Cherry