ripe

Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.

ripe grain

ripe apples

Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.

ripe cheese

ripe wine

Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.

And so may Place retain us still, ⁠And he the much-beloved again, ⁠A lord of large experience, train To riper growth the mind and will: […]

Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.

Ready for action or effect; prepared.

while things were just ripe for a war

I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.

A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.

When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.

To ripen or mature.

[…] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]