turning tomatoes red

[loltolhurst]

right I have lots of cherry tomatoes ( im a tomatoe virgin! )but all are green still bar 2 that went red a while ago. do I just continue to wait or should i take them off and would they turn red sat in the kitchen? I'm off to see parents soon for 2 weeks can i take them as green or will they just stay like that and not turn?!


thanks

[fatboy b]

I wait until they just start turning, then pick them, and put them in a bowl in the kitchen.

[Simpo Two]

Put them in bag with a ripe banana. The banana gives off ethene which induces other fruits to ripen.

(That's the theory though I've never tried it)

[The Black Flash]

Been a bad year for toms up here. Normally have loads, but they're just not ripening this year for some reason.

[fatvik]

Same here BlackFlash
A few of the plants have started drying out too while all the others plants in the same bed are fine. Last year was a wash out too
ho-hum

[Busamav]

Same here , ours are just starting to turn and now every plant has gone down with blight.

Really sad but i just have to pull them all up, 12 of them , and burn them

Going to salvage about 60 green toms before though , although a similar number have been lost.

[otolith]

Outdoor toms all got blight. Greenhouse toms have a small crop of Sungold, now mostly ripe.

[GreenDog]

Simpo Two said:

Put them in bag with a ripe banana. The banana gives off ethene which induces other fruits to ripen.

(That's the theory though I've never tried it)

or cut and apple in half and keep it beside the toms, does the same thing.

[loltolhurst]

anyone tried fried green tomatoes?!

[The Black Flash]

Yup.
The missus pickles the green ones with chilli and some other stuff, and very nice they are too!

We've got the blight as well - last year the tatties, this year a few tatties and it's got into the greenhouse, despite nuking it thouroughly over the winter

[adycav]

GreenDog said:

Simpo Two said:

Put them in bag with a ripe banana. The banana gives off ethene which induces other fruits to ripen.

(That's the theory though I've never tried it)

or cut and apple in half and keep it beside the toms, does the same thing.

If you don't want half bits of fruit lying all over the shop just stick the tomatoes in your fruitbowl.

Shame about the blight, I reckon pretty much everybody has suffered with it this year.

[bleesh]

There seems to have been major issues with tumblers and tumbling toms this year.

First could not get any plants for love nor money round here (North Hampshire) then some appeared at a couple of garden centers but they ain't tumblers - mine are now about 2feet tall and growing up.

Methinks the growers screwed up and bred untrue generations.....but did get some tumblers in the end but they're producing a lot of leaves and not many toms at the moment..

[eldar]

I'm in the North West - its been a dire year. Nice until early July, everything looking good, the the weather changed. Very little sun and loads of rain. The only bumper crop is slugs, which got just about everything in 2 days. Might get some tomatoes if we get some sun, which doesn't look that likely

[Vron]

Mine grew lovely then all got tomato spotted wilt virus carried by Thrips of which there have been millions flying round. Every plant had to go in the bin along with about 200 cherry tomatoes.

[jgmadkit]

First year we've tried growing anything and we are over run with toms, lovely and sweet, beginners luck I guess although they were all supplied by my parents who have been growing toms from seed for years. Don't know what to do with them all, only have about 10 plants but they are all supplying loads of toms.