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UNRIPE TOMATOES

Valerie69Valerie69 Posts: 1
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i HAVE POUNDS OF GREEN TOMATOES IN MY GROW HOUSE, WHAT CAN i DO TO RIPEN
THEM.

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  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Wait. there's 2 months left for most of us before the first frost comes. They will ripen given time. If they are not ripe before your first frost then cut them off and bring them in, they will ripen inside.
  • granmagranma Posts: 1,933
    place banana skins near the pot  or plant pot itself. Though as 
           Skandi says you have plenty of time yet.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I don’t expect my toms to finish ripening until the first half of September. 

    Patience is all that's needed 😊 🍅 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    There's a lot of time for them to ripen. Mine are only just starting. They usually continue to ripen to mid-October, then it gets too cold.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Agree. Ours are very heathly and a great size (no idea what they are as during lockdown no seeds to sow so used some from a tomato that I was about to eat). They are all still green and there is plently of time to ripen....but then of course that depends where you live I suppose.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Mine are only just starting to ripen too. I'll have quite a lot in another week or so.  :)

    Once they start showing a paler green that's them on the way @Valerie69 , and they'll soon turn. I bring any in that haven't turned by the mid/end of September, as they won't ripen after that in the growhouse here. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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