Our fruit setting and ripening has been prolonged here in Maine also......but seems to only effect certain strains. This year has been an odd year, but I think it has to do with the heat in the middle of the growing season.
Benjamin Franklin’s admonition made over 200 years ago when he said, “Security and freedom are not the same thing… in fact just the opposite. The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. That’s why they call it maximum security.”