Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/862/en

Fruit Formation and Ripening

From early summer onward, the vegetative growth-activity shifts into the growing-out, the filling with substance and the shaping of the fruits. At first these are still green and assimilate in the sunlight. The fruit increases in volume. The assimilates that up until flowering had served partly for vegetative growth and partly, by way of the root, for the nourishment of the soil life, accumulate in the tautly filling fruit. The process of ripening unfolds both as a process of inward working and as one of outward working.