RIPE

Perfect for picking

• Cherry-___, Herrick poem

• Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ___ (Job 13:13)

• Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ___ (Joel)

• About to be picked

• All set to eat

• At fruition

• At its best

• At its peak

• Auspicious

• Auspicious, as time

• Band ready for the big time

• Between green and black, maybe

• Between green and black, say

• Entirely edible

• Experienced

• Far enough along

• Finally edible

• Finally good enough to eat

• Finished growing

• Finished growing on the vine

• Fit for pickin'

• Foul-smelling

• Full-fledged

• Full-grown

• Fully aged

• Fully developed

• Fully mature

• Fully prepared (for)

• Fully ready

• Fully red, as a raspberry

• Good and juicy

• Good enough to eat

• Good enough to eat, in a way

• Good for eating

• Good to taste, or bad to smell

• Green's opposite

• Harvest ready

• Harvestable

• Herrick's Cherry- ___

• In full bloom

• In one's prime

• In season

• Indecent

• It may precede old age

• Juicy, perhaps

• Justiciable go-with

• Like a black blackberry

• Like a black olive

• Like a golden papaya

• Like a soft avocado

• Like a yellow banana

• Like black olives

• Like edible fruit

• Like many old gym socks

• Like old age?

• Like overused gym clothes

• Like some fruit

• Like some green apples

• Like unwashed gym clothes

• Like yellow bananas

• Mature

• Mature enough to harvest

• Mellow

• Mellow, as cheese

• No longer green

• Not green

• Nubile, in a way

• Old age preceder?

• Opportune

• Pickable

• Plump and juicy

• Post-green and pre-brown, perhaps

• Prime for picking

• Properly aged

• Quite ready

• Rather smelly

• Ready

• Ready enough

• Ready for action

• Ready for collection

• Ready for harvest

• Ready for harvesting

• Ready for picking

• Ready for picking, as grapes

• Ready for reaping

• Ready for the cotton picker

• Ready for the farm stand

• Ready for the harvest

• Ready for the pickin'

• Ready for use

• Ready now

• Ready on the vine

• Ready to be eaten

• Ready to be harvested

• Ready to be picked

• Ready to eat

• Ready to eat, as fruit

• Ready to pick

• Ready to retrieve

• Really smelly

• Red and juicy

• Red, as an apple

• Red, for Galas

• Red, in many cases

• Red, maybe

• Red, perhaps

• Seasoned

• Smelly

• Smelly, as post-workout clothes

• Smelly, as underwear

• Somewhat smelly

• Stinking

• Stinky

• Stinky, as gym clothes

• Sufficiently aged

• Suitable

• Suitable for picking

• Very pluckable

• Yellow, as a banana