Hi
I started them off at the beginning of June it said they should ripen by 1st September ish it’s not 10th of September and they are still all green where I’m I going wrong? Any help appreciated, thanks
Tomato’s not going red Help please
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by PaleKing9193
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It might’ve been too hot. You just have to wait longer. I wouldn’t rely on the predictions of anybody telling you when things will be ripen.
Prophecy has foretold of your tomato harvest. May the tomato gods shine upon you.
Looks like British compost. If you want outside UK tomatoes to ripen, you need to sow the seeds by April really, variety depending.
Or did you plant bought plants? There’s no frosts forecast, so just give them a bit more time.
Sit tight, the tomatoes may not have been informed of the ripening date.
For container plants, you can potentially hurry things along by significantly dialing back or stopping watering them. You want to do this to the point they are visually stressed with drooping leaves. Then when this happens water them again but just a fraction of what you had been. Keep in mind that the plants are going to not like this and you will probably see a lot of yellowing or dead leaves.
I am in a short season area (Seattle) and do this every year. This year I did this the last week of August for my container plants. I had them on drip irrigation for 20 min a day. I turned it off for 4 days until most plants were droopy. Then I turned the irrigation back on but only for 5 min a day. My plants look terrible, but I am getting ripe fruit now.
You just need time!
I’ve had a pretty good crop of tomatoes this year, but toward the end of the summer a few plants were just sitting with green tomatoes, not ripening. I hit them with a little fertilizer and they’re turning red now. This includes some plum varieties that hadn’t produced a red tomato in a month. This may be anecdotal, but it seems to have worked for me.
Dude, growing is organic stuff with 100 different variables coming to play.
It’s like a 13 year old asking why he/she hasn’t gotten pubes yet.
Do you have frost coming to you?
Mine turned once I topped them (cutting off all the tips of growth.
If you’re in a rush because you have frost coming, I’d top them and reduce watering.
It’s going to happen soon on some of the lower fruit clusters. The ones with the distinctive yellowish cast to them are about to turn. Pick anything that blushes right away. It will signal the plant and you’ll have more than you can handle in a short time.
I cut some watering and temps started going down and mine finally started turning. Or pick some and do the cardboard box bag method.
Your plants look really good and are using energy to continue to grow. Top them and I think they’ll stop producing and focus energy to fruits left
Fried Green Tomatoes are yummy!
Have you tried talking to them? Or singing?
Actually without knowing your location, hard to say. Too hot or too cold slows the red. Happy middle is what you want, and consistency is also helpful. It’s more the soil temp than the fruit temp in my experience. Soil temp for containers is much more variable since there is less soil mass to buffer the temp. All this to say, you’ll have to wait.
Or talk to your tomatoes.
That’s a lot of tomatoes 👍
u/LTB
THEY NEED MORE TIME IS ALL, THE TOMATOES WILL TELL YOU WHEN IT IS TIME YOU’LL KNOW THEY WILL CHANGE COLOR. PROVIDED THERE IS ENOUGH WATER TO CONFINSATE
Keep them going. I keep mine until just before first frost (in Pacific Northwest Z8b)
Anything left on vines will ripen up indoors once it gets too cold outside. I harvest into November here in Vancouver.