. I thought that putting them in the freezer was just to create the first frost effect, not so you can pick before there ripe, I sometimes don't see any frost, so I could not wait for the first one, I still have a few bags left from last year, I will start picking at the end of the month same with my rose hips, around me the signs are for an early autumn, and lots of the fruits are early as were mushrooms this year
Maybe we got some crossed wires. You are right. Freezing them doesn't ripen them it just simulates the first frost.
If they ain't ripe they ain't ripe. The frost has the effect