Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

--

David W.E. Roberts wrote:

Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

--
I've never tried bagging my trusses I'm afraid. I did eat my first two
outdoor tomatoes last night though. The others look as if they will all be
ripe next tuesday at 3 o'clock.

I'd b slightly concerned about the humidity in the bag. Might it make the
fruit rot? And it might play havoc with your truss.

--
In the beginning was the word.
But by the time the second word was added to it,
there was trouble.
For with it came syntax ...
-- John Simon

David W.E. Roberts wrote:

Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

--
I've never tried bagging my trusses I'm afraid. I did eat my first two
outdoor tomatoes last night though. The others look as if they will all be
ripe next tuesday at 3 o'clock.

I'd b slightly concerned about the humidity in the bag. Might it make the
fruit rot? And it might play havoc with your truss.

--
In the beginning was the word.
But by the time the second word was added to it,
there was trouble.
For with it came syntax ...
-- John Simon

David W.E. Roberts wrote:

Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

--
I've never tried bagging my trusses I'm afraid. I did eat my first two
outdoor tomatoes last night though. The others look as if they will all be
ripe next tuesday at 3 o'clock.

I'd b slightly concerned about the humidity in the bag. Might it make the
fruit rot? And it might play havoc with your truss.

--
In the beginning was the word.
But by the time the second word was added to it,
there was trouble.
For with it came syntax ...
-- John Simon

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen
overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you
didn't --



get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the
bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence
and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a
truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it
does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave --

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen
overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you
didn't --



get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the
bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence
and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a
truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it
does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave --

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen
overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you
didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the
bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence
and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a
truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it
does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen
overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you
didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the
bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence
and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a
truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it
does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

Hi.

I heard the theory behind this too. I tried the bannana with tomato in bag,
and without the bannana--no noticiable difference.


"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

--

Hi.

I heard the theory behind this too. I tried the bannana with tomato in bag,
and without the bannana--no noticiable difference.


"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

--

Hi.

I heard the theory behind this too. I tried the bannana with tomato in bag,
and without the bannana--no noticiable difference.


"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

--

bigboard wrote in message ...
David W.E. Roberts wrote:

Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

--
I've never tried bagging my trusses I'm afraid. I did eat my first two
outdoor tomatoes last night though. The others look as if they will all be
ripe next tuesday at 3 o'clock.

I'd b slightly concerned about the humidity in the bag. Might it make the
fruit rot? And it might play havoc with your truss.

I haven't got even a jocker any more; but I'd counsel against the
plastic bag for the reasons already stated. I mean, try it with your
_feet_ for a few days! Paper should do no harm at all. In Japan, where
they like their apples pink rather than red, the paper-bag routine is
common practice. But I doubt if it'll do much good: let us know what
happens, compared with control plants where you just leave alone. I'd
like to be wrong.

I wouldn't have used a split fruit as a source of ethylene, though: it
probably harbours lot of eager little fungal spores. Same for banana
skin: use a perfect specimen of a whole fruit. Not that the spores
won't be there anyway, but just that they'll have had a chance to
multiply.

All this is just an object lesson in not using F1 hybrids in ordinary
amateur practice: for some crops, we real people want a long
succession, not a commercially-convenient whoomph. Having said that,
when I've tried F1 tomatoes, it didn't seem to make much difference.

Mike.

"Doug." wrote in message
...

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen
overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you
didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with
a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the
bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence
and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas
are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a
truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it
does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

*************
It is true that bananas ripen quickly and more quickly if confined
together in an enclosed in a cellophane or paper bag. In their natural
state and unmolested they do not.
They have no natural means of ripening other than the natural elements ,
sunshine adequate water.
They leave the ports of the Caribbean and other banana growing areas in
ships' holds which are ventilated with air containing a measure of Agene
(sp?) gas. This is added to hasten the ripening process so that when
arriving at the receiving ports the bananas are just approaching full
ripeness, - ready for the market stalls.
If dogs are subjected to breathing the undiluted stuff they suffer
hysteria symptoms.
It hasn't put me off bananas though , - I like 'em!.
Twitch!,,,
er, sorry! -I - mean,
Doug.
*************






Doug.

"Doug." wrote in message
...

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen
overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you
didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with
a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the
bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence
and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas
are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a
truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it
does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

*************
It is true that bananas ripen quickly and more quickly if confined
together in an enclosed in a cellophane or paper bag. In their natural
state and unmolested they do not.
They have no natural means of ripening other than the natural elements ,
sunshine adequate water.
They leave the ports of the Caribbean and other banana growing areas in
ships' holds which are ventilated with air containing a measure of Agene
(sp?) gas. This is added to hasten the ripening process so that when
arriving at the receiving ports the bananas are just approaching full
ripeness, - ready for the market stalls.
If dogs are subjected to breathing the undiluted stuff they suffer
hysteria symptoms.
It hasn't put me off bananas though , - I like 'em!.
Twitch!,,,
er, sorry! -I - mean,
Doug.
*************






Doug.

"Doug." wrote in message
...

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
...
Hi,

bored with waiting for all my outdoor tomatoes to ripen.

I know just what willl happen - nothing, then thousands ripen
overnight.

So I have placed a plasic bag over a truss (please reassure me you
didn't
get the same mental picture which just flashed through my mind) with
a
single ripe (but split) commercially raised cherry tomato in the
bottom.

In theory the ripe tomato should give off waves of ripening essence
and
encourage the ones on the plant to ripen.

I am also considering another test using a banana skin, as bananas
are
suposed to be kings of the ripening.

As a control, I suppose I should also just put a plastic bag over a
truss,
in case the mini-greenhouse effect is what speeds ripening (if it
does).

Anyone else tried this kind of thing (and still at liberty)?

Cheers
Dave R

*************
Apologies from me if any gliches were suffered by my address, on this
thread - My gizmo has been playing up, but I think I've fixed it now.
Please ignore and thank you.
Doug.
************