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When they are intensely blue/black with a pale "bloom" over the surface (not always present) and some wrinkles.
Best picked after a frost has aged them :)
Or you can stick em in the freezer!
Do not try them as a fruit - your face will turn inside-out!
Best used as the vital ingredient in Sloe Gin :)
Cheers John
That's me out picking tomorrow then. So is it wrong for a tea-totaler to make sloe gin?
 
Looks like you had a nice relaxed outing, John. Your 'resin well' provides you with a supply of resin, logically. What do you use it for?

As kids we used to ball some around the end of a stick and try to make crude torches.
 
Nothing wrong with a tea-totaller MAKING sloe gin ...but you just can't drink it!
Resin is the basis for natural glues (mixed with charcoal dust, bees wax and sometines rabbit/sheep poo) and when pushed ito split sticks with birchbark it makes a good camp llight.
Refined - to get the bits out - it can also be used a chewing gum!
 

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