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Title: ripe toms
Post by: woodybrown on July 26, 2010, 18:46:43
CAN ANYONE TELL ME CAN YOU RIPEN TOMATOES QUICKLY IF PICKED BEFORE GOING RED.....
Title: Re: ripe toms
Post by: manicscousers on July 26, 2010, 18:52:23
we take some off when they have started turning, just not quite ripe, if we leave them on the windowsill, they are ripe after a couple of days  :)
Title: Re: ripe toms
Post by: cornykev on July 26, 2010, 19:12:28
Put them with a banana.   ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: ripe toms
Post by: lincsyokel2 on July 26, 2010, 19:47:40
Quote from: cornykev on July 26, 2010, 19:12:28
Put them with a banana.   ;D ;D ;D

yes a banana skin gives of enzyme fumes that make tomatoes ripen.
Title: Re: ripe toms
Post by: woodybrown on July 26, 2010, 20:33:21
thanks  come to think of it im sure my nan used to wrap hers up in newspaper and put them in the airing cupboard, has anyone xheard of that?
Title: Re: ripe toms
Post by: plainleaf on July 27, 2010, 01:17:01
woodybrown yes

cornykev :ethylene gas to be specific.