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Ripen up...damnit!
Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of
tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill |
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Bill Litchfield wrote:
Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I just picked my first almost-ripe tomatoes today. They weren't really quite red, but they smelled ripe and I didn't want the squirrels to get them. These were "Stupice", which shoulda beed getting ripe a month ago. The problem here (I think) is the unusually cold nights we've had all summer long. Hot weather might prevent the flowers from pollinating, but should not prevent ripening. Bob |
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Bill Litchfield wrote:
Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I just picked my first almost-ripe tomatoes today. They weren't really quite red, but they smelled ripe and I didn't want the squirrels to get them. These were "Stupice", which shoulda beed getting ripe a month ago. The problem here (I think) is the unusually cold nights we've had all summer long. Hot weather might prevent the flowers from pollinating, but should not prevent ripening. Bob |
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Bill Litchfield wrote:
Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I just picked my first almost-ripe tomatoes today. They weren't really quite red, but they smelled ripe and I didn't want the squirrels to get them. These were "Stupice", which shoulda beed getting ripe a month ago. The problem here (I think) is the unusually cold nights we've had all summer long. Hot weather might prevent the flowers from pollinating, but should not prevent ripening. Bob |
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Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. Does that apply here? I don't know. Good luck. |
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Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. Does that apply here? I don't know. Good luck. |
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Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. Does that apply here? I don't know. Good luck. |
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"Craig Watts" wrote in message ... Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. Does that apply here? I don't know. Good luck. If you have a bunch of plants, you can always do two or three of them as a controlled experiment. Ray |
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"Craig Watts" wrote in message ... Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. Does that apply here? I don't know. Good luck. If you have a bunch of plants, you can always do two or three of them as a controlled experiment. Ray |
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"Craig Watts" wrote in message ... Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks, Bill I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. Does that apply here? I don't know. Good luck. If you have a bunch of plants, you can always do two or three of them as a controlled experiment. Ray |
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"Craig Watts" wrote in message ... | | Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of | tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I | had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out | here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the | ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? | | Thanks, | Bill | | I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel | into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. | Does that apply here? I don't know. | | Good luck. "I find the biggest mistake that home gardeners make is to over water and over feed tomatoes, which results in lush foliage growth, cool and moist soil, and just a few, slow ripening tomatoes." Source... http://www.humeseeds.com/sumtom.htm (Vegetable expert Jon Traunfeld of the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service) -- "...a cool, rainy spring and now hot, dry periods -- might be slowing things a bit. "If they are slow, it could be attributed to a crazy spring," he says. "When you put tomatoes in cool soil, roots don't get established quickly and the little microorganisms are too cold to work in the organic matter and feed the plant." [...] When fruits were forming late spring, the temperature dropped to 50 degrees or less many nights." Source... http://www.bayweekly.com/year98/dock6_29.html Any help? -- TQ |
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"Craig Watts" wrote in message ... | | Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of | tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I | had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out | here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the | ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? | | Thanks, | Bill | | I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel | into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. | Does that apply here? I don't know. | | Good luck. "I find the biggest mistake that home gardeners make is to over water and over feed tomatoes, which results in lush foliage growth, cool and moist soil, and just a few, slow ripening tomatoes." Source... http://www.humeseeds.com/sumtom.htm (Vegetable expert Jon Traunfeld of the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service) -- "...a cool, rainy spring and now hot, dry periods -- might be slowing things a bit. "If they are slow, it could be attributed to a crazy spring," he says. "When you put tomatoes in cool soil, roots don't get established quickly and the little microorganisms are too cold to work in the organic matter and feed the plant." [...] When fruits were forming late spring, the temperature dropped to 50 degrees or less many nights." Source... http://www.bayweekly.com/year98/dock6_29.html Any help? -- TQ |
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"Craig Watts" wrote in message ... | | Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of | tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I | had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out | here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the | ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? | | Thanks, | Bill | | I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel | into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. | Does that apply here? I don't know. | | Good luck. "I find the biggest mistake that home gardeners make is to over water and over feed tomatoes, which results in lush foliage growth, cool and moist soil, and just a few, slow ripening tomatoes." Source... http://www.humeseeds.com/sumtom.htm (Vegetable expert Jon Traunfeld of the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service) -- "...a cool, rainy spring and now hot, dry periods -- might be slowing things a bit. "If they are slow, it could be attributed to a crazy spring," he says. "When you put tomatoes in cool soil, roots don't get established quickly and the little microorganisms are too cold to work in the organic matter and feed the plant." [...] When fruits were forming late spring, the temperature dropped to 50 degrees or less many nights." Source... http://www.bayweekly.com/year98/dock6_29.html Any help? -- TQ |
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"TQ" wrote in message ... "Craig Watts" wrote in message ... | | Out here in the wilds of Washington State in zone 6, I have tons of | tomatoes. About 98% of them are as green as an Irish Shamrock. Last year I | had lots of ripe tomatoes by mid - July. Course, it has been ungodly hot out | here this Summer. Currently at 100 degrees right now. Does that affect the | ripening process? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? | | Thanks, | Bill | | I heard a folklore story years ago about a gardener putting a shovel | into one side of the roots of half his plants to get them rippened. | Does that apply here? I don't know. | | Good luck. "I find the biggest mistake that home gardeners make is to over water and over feed tomatoes, which results in lush foliage growth, cool and moist soil, and just a few, slow ripening tomatoes." Source... http://www.humeseeds.com/sumtom.htm (Vegetable expert Jon Traunfeld of the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service) -- "...a cool, rainy spring and now hot, dry periods -- might be slowing things a bit. "If they are slow, it could be attributed to a crazy spring," he says. "When you put tomatoes in cool soil, roots don't get established quickly and the little microorganisms are too cold to work in the organic matter and feed the plant." [...] When fruits were forming late spring, the temperature dropped to 50 degrees or less many nights." Source... http://www.bayweekly.com/year98/dock6_29.html Any help? -- TQ Thanks for your help and the links. Looks like I've been doing a couple of things wrong, and will do some corrections. At least I do have a ton of tomatoes...fried green tomatoes, anyone?! Thanks again, Bill |
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Thanks for your help and the links. Looks like I've been doing a couple of things wrong, and will do some corrections. At least I do have a ton of tomatoes...fried green tomatoes, anyone?! Thanks again, Bill My Romas are turning quite well... I pull in a bowl full every few days. The Celebrity type we have are just barely starting to turn... So far, we've eaten two. There's two more that are going to be ready soon. A little more patience, and you won't have to have fried green tomatoes (if you don't want to ;-)) Puckdropper -- www.uncreativelabs.net Old computers are getting to be a lost art. Here at Uncreative Labs, we still enjoy using the old computers. Sometimes we want to see how far a particular system can go, other times we use a stock system to remind ourselves of what we once had. To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm |
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