Paul M. Cook wrote:
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Very strange.

I'm in eastern Virginia -- Northumberland County, along the Potomac
River.

Last year as we were building our house we planted a dozen or so
tomato plants along the back of the lot and harvested tomatoes all
summer and into the fall.

This year, I have 26 plants, all heirloom varieties. They are in
raised beds that are filled with half-and-half compost and topsoil.

I prune my plants so there are 3-4 main stems. I have lots of
foilage, healthy plants, no pests, and lots of green tomatoes. However
-- only two of my plants are ripening. I have been picking an
occasional ripe tomato from these two plants for 3 weeks; the rest of
the plants show no sign of ripening although they are loaded with
tomatoes.


On a similar note:

After typing that message I got busy pruning dead leaves and dying shoots.
I noticed that many of my yellow pears would drop off the vine if I just
touched them. So I removed about 30 tomatoes, all green, that were ready to
drop. I have no idea if they will ripen indoors. One did, so I have hope.

So is this a sign that the plant was going to drop its unripe fruit? Does
this sound like a sign of stress?

I had several I thought were about to get blossom end rot, they were
completely green. 10 days later in a bag with a banana (ethylene gas)
and they were red enough to eat.

On the ones still on the vine, the largest is just now getting redish.

Jeff



Paul

In article , jeff
wrote:



I had several I thought were about to get blossom end rot, they were
completely green. 10 days later in a bag with a banana (ethylene gas)
and they were red enough to eat.

On the ones still on the vine, the largest is just now getting redish.

Jeff



Paul



Fried or pickled green tomatoes still an option.

http://southernfood.about.com/od/tomatoes/a/green_tomatoes.htm


Just watch out for some of them )

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/

Bill

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:03:34 -0400, against all advice, something
compelled jeff , to say:

On the ones still on the vine, the largest is just now getting redish.


I got two yesterday, and one today. I was worried for a while,
but it looks like it's going to be all right.



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