This is my first time doing tomatoes and this is my Sweet 100 plant. This(first and second picture) was the very first flower stem I had and I just let it ride to experiment. I’ve had more flowers come up and start to make little tomatoes but this one is actually blushing on one tomato. Should I snip this one off? Will it ripen more? The other tomatoes higher up on the plant are also growing fast.
by LeaderFunny
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Not yet although if you did, it would continue to ripen. I don’t think it’s ready to eat.
patience!
Feel free to pull the blushing one(s) off and let it ripen at room temperature in your house. That’s what I do to avoid animals/insects getting a taste for my tomatoes or cracking when it rains. Once the color has started to break you can pick it and it will ripen just as effectively inside, but you can also leave it on if you want.
I would wait until they are red
You should definitely harvest it now! It is traditional to enthusiastically pull off the first tomato and then be disappointed that it isn’t properly ripe.
If it was me. I would pull the one that’s not green as my first fruit. Let the green ones go. But that plant is going to keep producing. Nice work! What soil and amendments did you use in that container?