Location: Melbourne
After I moved house in the summer and set up a garden with compost from the old house, tomato plants sprung up from the compost!
There are dozens of green tomatoes in my garden, nice firm tomatoes, some of them as big as a large lime! But all still completely green, and summer is over
The plants are still producing flowers and developing them into new fruit but the existing fruits aren’t ripening. Is there anything I can do? or is this completely normal and I’m worrying for no reason? I’m getting mixed messages from different sources on whether it’s ok that they aren’t ripe yet in March
by voidify3
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totally normal this late in the season they slow down a lot
you can pick them and let them ripen inside no stress
Mine are still green too. Though I picked a couple of red ones over the weekend. Its been a weird year for tomatoes for me.
We’re in qld and our tomatoes stop ripening around May when it starts getting cooler. We pick them and put them in a warm spot in the house to ripen.
Only starting get ripe ones this week. A good 6 weeks behind last year.
Give them a couple of weeks I reckon.
You might want to think about pinching off new flowers or side shoots. Season will be over soonish and the plant should concentrate on what it’s got.
Toss a perforated clear plastic bag around them to trap ethylene gas and speed up ripening
Mine did that, and stayed green for ages. Then they just started ripening one day and never stopped.
Don’t stress it, there’s still a few weeks left for them to ripen.
Tomatoes have been slow to ripen in Melbourne this year, you’re not the only one.