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Frank Miles wrote:

On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:47:37 -0700, Higgs Boson wrote:

As posted earlier, my tomatoes this year are a disaster. Something got
in them, probably brought home from nursery. That's what I get for
buying plants instead of growing from seed. Fatal delay?

Question: If I pick the few remaining tomatoes green and let them ripen
on the windowsill, will they still turn up infected & inedible? Or does
the disease manifest itself only toward vine ripening time?

Any experience out there?

TIA

HB

Tomatoes picked wholly green generally don't ripen, at least not with any
real flavor.
If they've become at least somewhat pale green they may turn color
eventually, but
still will never achieve that fully vine-ripened flavor. This is, of course,
how
most grocery-store fruit are picked (before shipping & ethylene gassing).

Our Quisling chemist(?), Ka-Boom, didn't mention that ripening bananas
give off ethelene gas, but then he doesn't know if benzene is a liquid
or not.

Keeping your fruit physically separate reduces the likelihood of disease
transmission.
At garden year's end I simply put them on a sheet of newspaper, spaced apart.
Usually
these last for ~2 months.

Again, if the tomatoes are starting to yellow, you have a chance of
ripening them.

I'd still recommend the enchiladas.



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