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And here’s a bonus mistake not taking your Tomatoes as soon as they start turning colors as soon as they break or start turning colors they’ve stopped taking nutrients from the plant so go ahead and bring them in the house they’re ripened just fine on the countertop and that
Encourages the vine to go ahead and set fruit up further on the vine
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That’s what my mum would do.
FINALLY You have validated What I have been doing for a real long time. THANK YOU…🍅 PS. If you don't pick before a RAIN:
the RAIN will start the growing process again
And growing again They will Start splitting
And insects will devour also they will sour.
So YES pick'm when turn color 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅✝️
Wrong! Taste much better fully ripening on the vine.
And are flavorless when they ripen
Tomato plants, all nightshades really, don’t start storing sugars in the fruits until they start turning. Up until that point the plant is focused on growth instead of storage. If you want maximum flavor and nutrition you wait until at minimum the entire fruit has turned but preferably until it’s fully ripe.
Interesting to hear that by doing so, this will help set fruit further up on the vine. If the tomoatoes were left to fully ripen, will this terminate once cut, the termination of fruit?
I wipe such ripening tomatoes using a cloth soaked with raw apple cider vinegar and store them one high on flat plates. They keep longer that way.
Oh yeah this is some great advice from some one that doesn’t sound southern
I pick when they start turning due to birds poking holes in them for water in Florida. Bird bath helps also.
I remember one year, I had 8 lemon boys & they looked top notch about 5ft, well while I'm trimming & all of sudden I hear a helicopter & it starts hovering over me & he stayed for a bit & I'm busting up laughing wait till they zoom in & see it's a tomato while I'm trimming the plant with the one finger salute, and waved at them with a smartazz grin. This was in 2007 so they thought I had happy plants.
Ole whisler😅😅😅😅
Those green tomatoes would sure be nice breaded and frying in my iron skillet right now. Along with some salmon patties and corbread. I could sit and eat fried green tomatoes until I'm sick to my stomach.
What's the point of growing your own tomatoes if you pick them early just like the corporations, you loose so much aroma and flavor
Best to leave them to ripen on the vine, otherwise they taste like … yuck!
Disagree! Vine ripened tomatoes are a real thing and I’ve never had issues ! In fact I always have a surplus of tomatoes every year !!!!!
thank you,I been telling people that for years
The flavour seems better when left
No
That's absolutely not true. You're picking them early to prevent them from being eaten by nature. They are ripe when they're fully colored.
NO THEY DONT
I felt like my sungolds really didn't ripen well off the vine but other varieties did
Why would you do that when they’re vine ripen there’s so much better
I guess "vine ripening" is not in your vocabulary then? That phrase is worth billions in the garden market industry
The taste is not the same
P.S. Animals love bright colors.
If more volume and the loss of fruit to animals is less important than the flavor…. ignore this guy. Otherwise…😂
Bonus mistake?😂
Great tip 👍🏻
We call them Tomatoes 🍅 😅
Absolutely, simply disregard the purist
Wrong. So wrong
Plus the benefit of them not rotting in the rain and the heat and feeding bugs
Good to know Thank you
Thank you so much!!!!!