Pumpkin Center, Kern County, California. This article is about the unincorporated community in Kern County. For the unincorporated community in Lassen County, see Pumpkin Center, Lassen County, California.
When to harvest chestnuts? Chestnuts donât ripen at the same time and chestnut harvest time can span as much as five weeks, although the nuts generally ripen in a 10- to 30-day span of time in late August and September. Allow the nuts to fall from the tree naturally.
At this age, the nuts have both coconut water and a thick layer of coconut meat inside the nut's hull. If you are harvesting coconuts primarily to drink the electrolyte-rich coconut water, however, you can harvest the nuts when they're somewhat immature and unripe at the eight-to nine-month mark. fully ripe nut should have a brown, even color with no gray splotches. If you chose to pick it early, the young coconut will be green and evenly colored. Regardless of its age, the nut should also have no cracks or stains, which would be a sign that the nut is damaged and its contents may have leaked out.