Does anyone know what might have gone wrong? They looked like they were growing well and then shriveled.
Does anyone know what might have gone wrong? They looked like they were growing well and then shriveled.
by Maat313
12 Comments
mojocade
I bet there is some kind of worm inside
Gettingoffonit
I’m guessing you grew some kind of black/purple strain and then didn’t pick them when they were ripe and now they’re overripe and have fallen from the vine to complete their cycle and turn into new tomatoes
Nyararagi-san
They looked perfectly ripe in the first pic! I find some of these purple varieties will keep some of the green color near the top or have green stripes sometimes. Tomatoes will shrivel up and fall to the ground when they start to overripen
Rich-Rest1395
You’re supposed to pick tomatoes right when they start to change color, then place in a paper bag. It eliminates the risk of this situation and insect damage
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This looks like a Chocolate Cherry indeterminate. In the first picture, the tomatoes are ripe and ready to eat (except the green one of course).
kutmulc
They’ll go overripe on the vine and eventually fall off when not picked.
hkj369
they were ripe! and they didn’t get picked so they fell
Maat313
Thanks for the input. I was surprised because my “regular” red cherry tomatoes have never looked so shriveled even after falling. Usually they just split. I’ll pick the the others quicker.
_Moho_braccatus_
Overripe, harvest the seeds for replanting!
Bc212
They over ripened and fell off.
WizardofUz
I pick our tomatoes when they show a little blush on them and then sit them on our windowsill. They ripen up beautifully indoors.
Itchy-Ad1005
Bags work because fruit like tomatoes, bananas, apples, avacados, etc, give off ethane gas, which causes the final ripening. Placing fruit in a bag traps the natural ethane, and they rapidly finish ripening. When they store unripe fruit, they flood the storage area with inert gas to prevent it ripening when they don’t want it to. The oldbsaying about one bad apple spoiling the barrel is absolutely true. When you get a rotted area on an an apple it is pumping out ethane like crazy.. it’s why when you peal a banana the pealbrapidly turns black.
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I bet there is some kind of worm inside
I’m guessing you grew some kind of black/purple strain and then didn’t pick them when they were ripe and now they’re overripe and have fallen from the vine to complete their cycle and turn into new tomatoes
They looked perfectly ripe in the first pic! I find some of these purple varieties will keep some of the green color near the top or have green stripes sometimes. Tomatoes will shrivel up and fall to the ground when they start to overripen
You’re supposed to pick tomatoes right when they start to change color, then place in a paper bag. It eliminates the risk of this situation and insect damage
This looks like a Chocolate Cherry indeterminate. In the first picture, the tomatoes are ripe and ready to eat (except the green one of course).
They’ll go overripe on the vine and eventually fall off when not picked.
they were ripe! and they didn’t get picked so they fell
Thanks for the input. I was surprised because my “regular” red cherry tomatoes have never looked so shriveled even after falling. Usually they just split. I’ll pick the the others quicker.
Overripe, harvest the seeds for replanting!
They over ripened and fell off.
I pick our tomatoes when they show a little blush on them and then sit them on our windowsill. They ripen up beautifully indoors.
Bags work because fruit like tomatoes, bananas, apples, avacados, etc, give off ethane gas, which causes the final ripening. Placing fruit in a bag traps the natural ethane, and they rapidly finish ripening. When they store unripe fruit, they flood the storage area with inert gas to prevent it ripening when they don’t want it to. The oldbsaying about one bad apple spoiling the barrel is absolutely true. When you get a rotted area on an an apple it is pumping out ethane like crazy.. it’s why when you peal a banana the pealbrapidly turns black.