These bad boys have been hanging on and green for well over a month. I have been cutting out a decent amount of blight but still a ton of leaves. Not a single red tomato this year. Help me 😢 zone 6A
by No-Tomatillo879
43 Comments
Significant-Ad-5073
Having the same issue. I am assuming it’s because of the heat I am having here in Ontario tho zone 6a as well
Porkbossam78
Time my friend. Give them time. Tomatoes will teach you patience
Unable-Ad-4019
While you’re waiting, fried green tomatoes!
odd_perspective_
6b here, I swore this pic and problem was something I sleep posted. I have the same exact issues with these tomatoes, my other varieties have come and gone.
TheJWal420
Give em some 0-10-10 and then wait…
AdRough1341
It’s the heat. We had three days of cool weather and my cherry tomatoes finally blushed. Still waiting on my other varieties. Gonna have a few days of 80s this week so hoping it’ll happen soon 🤞🏻
zmayes
Fry them?
Northernstar50220
Zone 7/8 here and I have the same issue!
Pxlfreaky
The extended heatwave we’ve been having has really messed with tomatoes this year.
ConstantRude2125
Three years ago, mine locked up for about 2 months. Plant kept growing and making a few new fruits, but nothing ripening. When they finally started blushing, most had rotten spots from leaf footed bugs. They also like unripened pecans. I think I hate those more than the hownworms.
generalkriegswaifu
Wait unfortunately. The one at the front right looks like it might be starting to blush.
winfieldclay
7a here same problem, just gotta wait.
tequilaneat4me
While waiting, take a few green tomatoes and make a wonderful green sauce, grab a bag of tortilla chips, and enjoy.
Nothing. Just wait. They’ll ripen when there good and ready
Electrical_Rush_2339
Wait
nemoppomen
You’ve got plenty of time before first frost. They will ripen in time.
Qualeng
I had a year like this. And I swear on my seed catalogs, I sang along to music for a week while I was tending my garden and they started to ripen.
MaintenanceCapable83
was in the same predicament a few weeks ago…. i picked a bunch of them green and stuck in a cardboard box with a brown paper bag over top of them and closed the box flaps, but did not seal. They are now getting ripe.
growing up, we would use brown paper bags and just bunch up the end.
darkpheonix262
Patients young padowan
Sayben6
They need certain temps. Mine didn’t start ripening until the temps went down.
tomatocrazzie
You can stop watering them if you haven’t already done so. This will stress and probably kill the plant, but it can force them to ripen. If you do this, be aware if you get rain at the wrong time they can split.
yanicka_hachez
Everything is 6 weeks late here in the north east because of a very cold Spring. Hopefully patience will pay.
MandaJulianne
They likely will all turn red at once. Male sure you are ready to start canning when they do.
MezzanineSoprano
In really hot weather, tomatoes stop developing but will ripen when it cools a bit.
Lostinwoulds
Two more weeks… Wait wrong sub.
30yearswasalongtime
As soon as they blush pick them
Kindly_Parsley1122
In the evening, go out in nothing but a trench coat and flash them. They’ll blush real quick. /s of course
11Petrichor
I’ve been flipping them off but that’s not working.
aReelProblem
This happened to me about April here in Florida. I got kinda fed up and power fed my plants. By the end of April I was begging the tomato gods to slow down as I was completely inundated with tomatoes. Can only make so many tomato dishes and can so much sauce a season. I’m still pulling tomatoes daily and eating 3-4 a day trying to keep my counters cleared. Some reason it was a gangbuster season for tomatoes, cucumbers and squash. I don’t even wanna look at another cucumber or squash this year but I still have two more months of solid growing season left.
sofaking_scientific
Wait
Recluse_18
This happened to me one year late in the season and a friend of mine recommended. I remove the green tomatoes and wrap each one in newsprint and put them in a cardboard box in a dark place. I thought he was crazy. Those tomatoes ripened over the next month or two, not all at once, but it was like Every week or every other day I had a fresh ripe tomatoes. I have no idea what the newsprint does, but it was fantastic to be having fresh ripe homegrown tomatoes in December and January.
hobofireworx
Be patient. I see a lot of shades in there.
ROGER2th
My tomato plants are massive, loaded with fruit (so much so that my cages are bending over), and not even a hint of blush. I have a feeling they’re all going to go at once, and all of my free time will be spent canning tomatoes lol. Can’t wait!
BigD0089
We have 8 giant plants another 10 small ones and 4 big tomato bushes where my wife planted like 10 seeds per hole and theyre all full of green tomatoes still. Were up in 4a . Sw north dakota
SDL68
It’s the heat. Tomatoes need under 29C , whatever that is in F, to turn red. They can’t produce lycopene when it’s too hot.
SRMred
Zone 8a here. We’ve had 98 degrees or rain and clouds and 78. I have 4 tomatoes left. The plants look terrible, and hubby is pressuring me to pull them out. No way! I’m waiting for them to mature if I have to wait to November!!
Nipplasia2
It’s the heat. Shade them and see if that helps
Penne_Trader
Put in paper bag with a banana
Banana releases ethylene gas
Ethylene gas is used to ripen tomatoes
KTD2000
Wait. Wait. Wait some more.
It’s gonna be good!!! :))
jangletaint
If the heat index has been above 95°, they’ll stall out til it drops back down. Patience, my friend 🙂
matt871253013
Zone 6A has been a bitch this year
Affectionate_Cost_88
What can you do? Wait until they’re ready. That’s about it.
blue58
I picked 36 lbs of green tomatoes. The trick is to only pick them once they are full-size. The ones that are completely green are in the basement in boxes and will ripen down there. The ones that had a blush of color are in the kitchen in paper bags. I have already ripened a dozen this way and they taste great.
ETA: The reason I didn’t let them wait were the absolute destruction caused by early blight and some very tenacious army worms.
43 Comments
Having the same issue. I am assuming it’s because of the heat I am having here in Ontario tho zone 6a as well
Time my friend. Give them time. Tomatoes will teach you patience
While you’re waiting, fried green tomatoes!
6b here, I swore this pic and problem was something I sleep posted. I have the same exact issues with these tomatoes, my other varieties have come and gone.
Give em some 0-10-10 and then wait…
It’s the heat. We had three days of cool weather and my cherry tomatoes finally blushed. Still waiting on my other varieties. Gonna have a few days of 80s this week so hoping it’ll happen soon 🤞🏻
Fry them?
Zone 7/8 here and I have the same issue!
The extended heatwave we’ve been having has really messed with tomatoes this year.
Three years ago, mine locked up for about 2 months. Plant kept growing and making a few new fruits, but nothing ripening. When they finally started blushing, most had rotten spots from leaf footed bugs. They also like unripened pecans. I think I hate those more than the hownworms.
Wait unfortunately. The one at the front right looks like it might be starting to blush.
7a here same problem, just gotta wait.
While waiting, take a few green tomatoes and make a wonderful green sauce, grab a bag of tortilla chips, and enjoy.
https://www.homesicktexan.com/salsa-salvation-ninfas-green-sauce/
Nothing. Just wait. They’ll ripen when there good and ready
Wait
You’ve got plenty of time before first frost. They will ripen in time.
I had a year like this. And I swear on my seed catalogs, I sang along to music for a week while I was tending my garden and they started to ripen.
was in the same predicament a few weeks ago…. i picked a bunch of them green and stuck in a cardboard box with a brown paper bag over top of them and closed the box flaps, but did not seal. They are now getting ripe.
growing up, we would use brown paper bags and just bunch up the end.
Patients young padowan
They need certain temps. Mine didn’t start ripening until the temps went down.
You can stop watering them if you haven’t already done so. This will stress and probably kill the plant, but it can force them to ripen. If you do this, be aware if you get rain at the wrong time they can split.
Everything is 6 weeks late here in the north east because of a very cold Spring. Hopefully patience will pay.
They likely will all turn red at once. Male sure you are ready to start canning when they do.
In really hot weather, tomatoes stop developing but will ripen when it cools a bit.
Two more weeks… Wait wrong sub.
As soon as they blush pick them
In the evening, go out in nothing but a trench coat and flash them. They’ll blush real quick. /s of course
I’ve been flipping them off but that’s not working.
This happened to me about April here in Florida. I got kinda fed up and power fed my plants. By the end of April I was begging the tomato gods to slow down as I was completely inundated with tomatoes. Can only make so many tomato dishes and can so much sauce a season. I’m still pulling tomatoes daily and eating 3-4 a day trying to keep my counters cleared. Some reason it was a gangbuster season for tomatoes, cucumbers and squash. I don’t even wanna look at another cucumber or squash this year but I still have two more months of solid growing season left.
Wait
This happened to me one year late in the season and a friend of mine recommended. I remove the green tomatoes and wrap each one in newsprint and put them in a cardboard box in a dark place. I thought he was crazy. Those tomatoes ripened over the next month or two, not all at once, but it was like Every week or every other day I had a fresh ripe tomatoes. I have no idea what the newsprint does, but it was fantastic to be having fresh ripe homegrown tomatoes in December and January.
Be patient. I see a lot of shades in there.
My tomato plants are massive, loaded with fruit (so much so that my cages are bending over), and not even a hint of blush. I have a feeling they’re all going to go at once, and all of my free time will be spent canning tomatoes lol. Can’t wait!
We have 8 giant plants another 10 small ones and 4 big tomato bushes where my wife planted like 10 seeds per hole and theyre all full of green tomatoes still. Were up in 4a . Sw north dakota
It’s the heat. Tomatoes need under 29C , whatever that is in F, to turn red. They can’t produce lycopene when it’s too hot.
Zone 8a here. We’ve had 98 degrees or rain and clouds and 78. I have 4 tomatoes left. The plants look terrible, and hubby is pressuring me to pull them out.
No way! I’m waiting for them to mature if I have to wait to November!!
It’s the heat. Shade them and see if that helps
Put in paper bag with a banana
Banana releases ethylene gas
Ethylene gas is used to ripen tomatoes
Wait. Wait. Wait some more.
It’s gonna be good!!! :))
If the heat index has been above 95°, they’ll stall out til it drops back down. Patience, my friend 🙂
Zone 6A has been a bitch this year
What can you do? Wait until they’re ready. That’s about it.
I picked 36 lbs of green tomatoes. The trick is to only pick them once they are full-size. The ones that are completely green are in the basement in boxes and will ripen down there. The ones that had a blush of color are in the kitchen in paper bags. I have already ripened a dozen this way and they taste great.
ETA: The reason I didn’t let them wait were the absolute destruction caused by early blight and some very tenacious army worms.