tomatoes

[lizagrowbag]

first time ive grown them they are all outdoors and have lots of fruit on them
but are all still green is this normal? should i take them off the plants and put them in a window sill to ripen or not?

[lizagrowbag]

[BarriedaleNick]

Well leave em on really - mine are a bit late this year as well.  If you can avoid the dreaded blight then there is plenty of growing season left for them to ripen.

[GRACELAND]

Yep Same here Mine are just starting to turn

Have put some banana skins under as it suppose to help

[Humble Bumble]

I picked my first ripe ones last night, they unfortunately didn't make it into the house as I snaffled them.

The were Black Beauty's and good old Harbinger.  And tasty they were too. ;D

I find placing a red card near them makes them turn quicker.

[Barnowl]

I think there are many of us with outdoor toms that are in the same boat. They prefer warmth to ripen and we haven't had a lot of that recently.  >:(

[tonybloke]

if you keep feeding them they take ages to ripen !! if the plant thinks it's dying, they fruit quicker, maybe not so much, but definitely quicker.
Q. are you growing for tomatoes, or tomato plants? (please think before answering what may seem as a smart-a*se question)
rgds, Tony  (I've been eating outdoor toms for weeks) ;)

[lushy86]

Thats a really good question tonybloke, my toms are huge in my little shed cum greenhouse but I'm disappointed with the amount of fruit, although there are still lots of flowers the fruits are green, with a few just turning. I wonder if I should stop feeding them?

Lushy

[tim]

Oh, fash not!  This is the first reasonable pick we've had indoors.

And don't Spring Onions grow!

[caroline7758]

I've only got one with any colour at all, and that's in the greenhouse- plenty of time yet.

[daveyboi]

I picked my first tomato yesterday. Tonight when I got home I found 4 more ready and a lot of the others are beginning to turn now.

They are outdoor ones. The stayed green for ages and the first one I picked seemed to start colouring then promptly stopped as the weather got cooler and wetter for about ten days.
A little sunshine will do us all good but the tomato crop especially :)

[BarriedaleNick]

Picked my first real decent takings over the weekend. 



That was one days worth - a couple of pounds in total over two or three days..

[cacran]

my tomatoes are very slow to ripen too. there have been half a dozen red ones but they all have a big brown scab on the bottom. Does anyone know what it could be? ???

[ceres]

my tomatoes are very slow to ripen too. there have been half a dozen red ones but they all have a big brown scab on the bottom. Does anyone know what it could be? ???

Blossom end rot - irregular watering means the plant can't take up calcium properly.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/Advice/profiles0701/blossom_end_rot.asp

[Mullein]

The only one of ours that looked like it was going to go red has now started to go all brown and scabby. Should i cut it off? will the rest of them have enough time to ripen? Its producing loads but they are still all green. is it time to look out the green tomato recipes?

[ceres]

The only one of ours that looked like it was going to go red has now started to go all brown and scabby. Should i cut it off? will the rest of them have enough time to ripen? Its producing loads but they are still all green. is it time to look out the green tomato recipes?

Blighted toms don't go scabby, they go brown and soft and rotten.  What does the rest of the plant look like - does it have signs of blight?

[Mullein]

Yay i got it to work!. A couple of the leaves have gone a bit like the one in the foreground but we just pick them off. This stem was damaged a while ago by rubbing against the stick and its where most of the problems are. The rest of the leaves look healthy enough except for the very bottom one - but i think thats just because its old?

[thifasmom]

those fruit do look blighted but yes the plant does look relatively healthy. remove the blighted foliage and fruit and hope for the best :-\.

[ceres]

I agree with thifasmom.

[Mullein]

Right! Offending branch removed - we'll see what happens to the rest. Shame really.

Thank you  :)
Claire

[Robert_Brenchley]

It looks like blight, but the disease probably won't spread while the good weather lasts. If we get a few wet days, pick what you have quick and make masses of chutney.