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I took this picture yesterday, first nicely open flower on a first truss of a Sungold.

I'm hoping to keep up with some progress pictures. It always seems to me that the first fruit take forever to turn colour.

I bought the plants from B&Q a few weeks ago and they have been growing on in the greenhouse ever since. They have 7 true leaves then a flower stem.
Any guesses for the amount of days until ripe?

As long as we lose this cold weather, I reckon about 60 days 

That would take us up to, I think, June the 26th, nom nom I can't wait 
We shall see, hopefully it will set as it's been pretty cold in the greenhouse the last couple of nights.

As part of the Internet Tomato Trials on 1999/2000 we were asked to record exactly that.  First from sowing to first flower, then from first flower to first fruit.  And it varies from tomato to tomato variety and from region to region.  in the USA tomatoes are described by days to maturity routinely and these numbers differ in different regions.  The further north, the longer.  Days to maturity starts at planting out and planting out is at the point of first flower.

This gives you some sort of idea.  Flowering now will produce in about 2 months for first fruit.  Yes as you say, later in the year this is much faster because the ethylene exuded from other ripening fruit speeds up the process also the warmer weather and longer daylight hours speed up everything.

If you are interested I can send you my trial statistics as a pm. 

Quote from: Jayb on April 26, 2017, 22:20:02
I took this picture yesterday, first nicely open flower on a first truss of a Sungold.

I'm hoping to keep up with some progress pictures. It always seems to me that the first fruit take forever to turn colour.

I bought the plants from B&Q a few weeks ago and they have been growing on in the greenhouse ever since. They have 7 true leaves then a flower stem.
Any guesses for the amount of days until ripe?

Quote from: Jayb on April 26, 2017, 22:20:02
I took this picture yesterday, first nicely open flower on a first truss of a Sungold.

I'm hoping to keep up with some progress pictures. It always seems to me that the first fruit take forever to turn colour.

I bought the plants from B&Q a few weeks ago and they have been growing on in the greenhouse ever since. They have 7 true leaves then a flower stem.
Any guesses for the amount of days until ripe?

7th of june from the clacton-on-sea jury well done jayb  your well infront of the sunshine coast

Those aren't tomatoes are they Johnnyco15?

Quote from: squeezyjohn on April 27, 2017, 14:45:54
Those aren't tomatoes are they Johnnyco15?

no that pic i took around 3 weeks ago they are dahlia cuttings will take some tomato pics and dahlia pics tomorrow been putting my new to me greenhouse together today finished the pumpkin house last week wife had a major opp on monday 5 vertebrae  removed from her cervical spine new bits putin and then caged so been a bit hectic  so not took many pics this week however shes a lot better today and one of our daughters comes tomorrow so will have a long weekend to finish things pot thing on and all that

How exciting , sun gold always the first ripe tom at our house. I'm not expecting anything though until second week in July. So you are well ahead! I did have my first ripe strawberry today though yum! X sunloving

Interesting discussion about DTM - days to maturity - from flowering to fruit - and the implications of this concept:

http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=11573&highlight=GDD

Galina. It is interesting to note that you are "slow to mature"


Ok sorry about that but I assume that you have grown Galina, is it a favourite. ?

Just googled it and it looks like a lovely tomato.

I've been rumbled     eat my favourite tomato and you too might become 'slow to mature'   

Well, it isn't probably my most favourite tomato ever (that changes all the time), but definitely in the top ten.   

Quote from: pumpkinlover on April 28, 2017, 08:28:41
Galina. It is interesting to note that you are "slow to mature"


Ok sorry about that but I assume that you have grown Galina, is it a favourite. ?

Just googled it and it looks like a lovely tomato.

Whahey.....great picture...exciting :)

no tomatoes flowering but however a cayenne hot chilli is having a go

Chillies are looking great 

Quote from: squeezyjohn on April 27, 2017, 14:45:54
Those aren't tomatoes are they Johnnyco15?

heres a pic of mine a couple of weeks ago and this time lets hope they are tomatoes lol

Quote from: Jayb on April 29, 2017, 20:44:04
Chillies are looking great 

thanks jayb they were sown last week of feb