And how do I keep my ripe tomatoes fresh so as to not use them and wait for the others to ripen for a bigger harvest?
Check what variety you started with:
It likely is labeled as a ‘determinant’ or ‘indeterminant’ variety
Determinate means everything ripens more or less at the same time. Most farms use these
Indeterminate means ripening happens as the vines keep growing longer and casting newer flowers. So the lower, older fruit will ripen sooner, while the fruit closer to the ends riper later. This may have a spread of a month, or even longer—especially if the vines aren’t trimmed back in any way.
Determinate plants usually stay a little bit neater, while indeterminate ones just keep growing and spreading until they run out of growing season
Yeah, our is called the Dwarf Cherry Tomato if I remember correctly, of the orange kind, I’ve read they are indeterminate so you’re right in that it just keeps growing until the growing season ends.
Never knew about this, so I appreciate your help 💯
some ripen faster than others, you know they’re ripe when a gentle touch can pull them off the stem
nothing wrong with harvesting a few, eating them, and then harvesting more the next day, IMO
Yeah I harvested 3 cherry toms earlier, these are the orange variety of cherry tomatoes.
You’re not wrong there with the eating them part, it tastes so fresh every time, making the wait so worth it!
cherries will ripen as a cluster starting at the most terminal tip, and getting greener up the cluster. It’s flowers are arranged in a raceme, which means the most mature flowers are at the tip.
practically speaking, with cherries, I’ll usually wait till the tip most one is “very ripe”, and usually the middle is perfect and the base is a bit under ripe. but I prefer having that range. alternativly, wait for them all to ripen in the vine
I always imagined they’re racing with each other that’s why they don’t all ripen at the same time 😅
I’m no tomato expert by any means, but tomato’s will be in the ripening stage (green to red) for 15-25ish days. they don’t all hit at once but they will ripen within that general timeframe.
as for the early ones before a big batch, eat em? nothing you can really do other then leave them on the vine and hope they don’t over ripen, or leave em on the counter or something until you have your desired quantity. they might start to go bad if left too long. nothing specifically you can do to stop nature from doing what it does.
Yeah I guess that makes the most sense, I just wanted to know what people’s procedure/opinions for these things as I’m still starting out gardening as of a couple of months ago. Thank you.
We get around 3 cherry tomatoes ripening each day so there’s that for some context lol, more ripening as we speak.
