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"SteveB" wrote:

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stephengor wrote:

I am enjoying a day off today, and puttering in the garden, and getting
a little nervous with the chilly temps over the weekend... My roma
tomatoes have ALOT of fruit, but not a single red or even pink tomato
as of this morning. My Sweet 100's have produced many MANY fruit, and
while they're ripening ever so slowly, at least we're able to get a
little harvest out of them (less than 10 each day are ripe on 4
plants)

I also am growing 3 varieties of peppers, Jalapeño, Sweet Italian, and
regular bell peppers. the fruit looks great, but nothing is turning
red

Is anyone else in MA or NH having this issue?

Heck, I'm in California, north of San Francisco, and we're having this
issue.
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In my experience with tomatos, if too many fruit get growing at once, they
ripen slowly, and then fall to fungus, sun split, and all sorts of things.
That's why I pinch my suckers, and keep only a few producing shoots going
instead of letting the whole plant turn into Audrey.

Steve

I wouldn't doubt that I'm doing something to retard my tomatoes
(although we had enough to make a significant addition to our salad last
night). My best producers so far (not saying much) have been the
Koralics and the Stupices. But I can't take all the credit for the lack
of ripe tomatoes, see:
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article...CLES/908019974
Cool temps nurture crops
--
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.*
~Channing E. Phillips

http://tinyurl.com/o63ruj
http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm