Occasionally choose the one that is slightly overripe
Some of these take awhile. The ones that do aggressively test my contention that the end result is better if it embraces everything that happens along the way. That electric blue was taking things down a path I didn’t find particularly gratifying, but instead of starting over, I did some dead reckoning from where I was and changed direction more abruptly than I normally would. I ended up in a place that is lovely and overwrought. The charm of an old city is largely a product of seeing the previous versions and the current juxtaposed and intermingled.
When you buy lemons, it’s better to pass over the brighter firmer one. You get more juice from the one with the thinner skin and a bit more give. Discretion is even more critical when it comes to persimmons.