Plucking facts from the air like late-season fruit.
What does "late-season fruit" signify here ? Thank you :)

Context:
He had assembled a lot of the names by now, he had most of
the dates. He’d spent hours trawling the register of births,
working painstakingly back through the years generation by
generation. Chasing down birth certificates and marriage
records. Plucking facts from the air like late-season fruit.

Question

Plucking facts from the air like late-season fruit.
What does "late-season fruit" signify here ? Thank you :)

Context:
He had assembled a lot of the names by now, he had most of
the dates. He’d spent hours trawling the register of births,
working painstakingly back through the years generation by
generation. Chasing down birth certificates and marriage
records. Plucking facts from the air like late-season fruit.

Answer

Ill assume that as the season progresses the fruit become more ripe and are therefore easier to pick.  In that case the facts beeing plucked from the air like late season fruit could imply that he was finding it easy to come up with facts.

Of course, if im wrong and late season fruit are not easier to pick, then the opposite of the above would be true.  You should be able to tell from the context whether the facts are easy to come by and therefore which way around the answer should be.

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