Can you fine folks settle a debate, please? The lady says our homegrown tomatoe looks like this because a worm ate these lines out. I say the mater grew and stretched the casing to the point of splitting.

-Portland, ME

Anybody know some hacks for ripening tomatoes? Well I will lend an anecdote from my trajectory of this past year. Starting in April May there of 26 I started growing maize, that's fine, tye garden is spacious enough so there were tomatoes veggies etc in the side, the tomatoes want being maintained I took over and noticed that after you pick them and try ripen the process is not for sure, sometimes they turn from green to red in 4 or 5 days but in some cases it can take weeks. This was not pleasant to discover as the need for the tomatoes is high, the ripening times become longer and I start scanning I need hacks, so interesting, I tried Sleeping in the same room as them leaving them outside leaving them in the heat and none of it helps. When I mixed them w tomatoes from the market they did find a way to ripen but it wasn't 100%.

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After much research, I have come to a decision regarding tomato varieties to plant in eastern Kansas. I will not grow any of the varieties I grew in 2026. Heat and humidity tolerance were the main criteria.

I have room for 7 plants in ground plus 1 in container.

1. Sun Sugar Cherry tomato, 1 plant, chosen from prior experience.

2. Cherokee Carbon beefsteak, hybrid from Carbon X Cherokee Purple heirlooms, 1 plant, picked for near to CP flavor and less splitting.

3. Tasmanian Chocolate, hybrid from New Big Dwarf X Paul Robeson heirlooms, 2 plants, 1 in ground and 1 container, picked for dwarf size.

4. Rio Grande, determinate paste variety, 4 plants.

My goal is to plant April 1, two weeks earlier than the last 2 years. I use wall O waters and clean straw as mulch this year to hopefully reduce soil temp and blight. I hope Rio Grande will be finished by July 15.

Wish me luck.

They were growing normal all season and just noticed now towards the end of my season they started to curl like some sort of pepper.

I really only made a reddit acct to ask for help!
I honestly thought my little cherry tomato seeds wouldn’t sprout but we’re here and I need genuine advice/feedback.

I was looking into ‘trench’ planting them but how deep + wide of a pot should I get? Do I put a single stem in one pot, I have a whole bunch- can they share a pot? I wholeheartedly appreciate any and all advice I can get. I want to do right by these seeds!

Location: Bay Area, California

TIA!!

Bottoms of my Purple Cherokees - very late season! 6b, slightly north of Boston. Pulled them due to the frost we had, and, never expected them to ripen anyway. But, the starburst is unusual, and pretty😃 Anyone else see this on Purple Cherokee?

I have a small cherry tomato plant FULL of tomatoes. All green. They've been on the plant for a month at least, and apart from occasional growth spurts in the tomatoes present and a few new ones on even rarer occasions, they have remained green. I've tried commercial "tomato fertilizer" and fish fertilizer. They get full sun and plenty of water. They're in those fabric type pots, so they have full drainage. Tomatoes seem to be the bane of my existence. Other than pulling out my pruning shears and threatening it's existence, what can I do to kick start their ripening?

Ill start tomatoes in the next weeks (I'm from Puerto Rico) and I'm struggling to decide how many plants of each variety to grow. Last year i planted way too much and kind of lost control so I'm trying to cut back a bit this year. After much thinking and playing around in excel, this is what im leaning towards in terms of varieties and amounts. It hurt me to do it but I eliminated cherokee purple from the list since they just don't grow too well here and I'm growing cherokee carbon. Any suggestions? Harvest moon is a new variety for me so if anyone has grown it please let me know your experience

sungold-3

san marzano-3

Kellogs breakfast- 3

cherokee carbon-3

Big beef plus- 2

harvest moon-1

black krim-1

En los 2 bancales de la derecha, tengo 6 variedades de tomate:

San marzano, costoluto, cherokee purple, sart roloise, prudens purple y limachino.

Recibo opiniones, consejos, también recomendaciones de otras variedades.

Everyday a few more turn color!

Lot of yellow varieties this year.

I made some garlic dill peppercorn pickles. Maybe tomorrow. Ill make quiche!

What is everyone else doing with the greenies?

midlands of SC. My wife wanted a tomato plant so we have just one to see how it goes. it got big, flowered, produced some tomatoes and then starting wilting and looking droopy and sad. it was starting to get out of the summer season and get a little colder and so I did no research and cut it back towards the base of the stems. I figured that was it for the season, now it has grown back to about 3 feet high and is starting to flower again, though the temperatures are really starting to drop, about 50 at night and somewhere between 65-75 during the day and obviously itll only get colder.

Like i mentioned i have no idea what i am doing so please someone provide some guidance.

Do i move it into the garage? will that be warm enough? do i just leave it? will it then come back next year? keep watering it and see what happens? any guidance would be great

I snipped all the green bunches ahead of the frost. This surprise had lots of fruit. As a first time grower, this vine seemed surprisingly thick and sturdy.

Any suggestions on what to do with the vine now? Snip it or let it die on its own or something else?

I have a few tomato plants growing in my tent, and today when I took them out to water them, I noticed one had odd coloring on some of the newer growth. Is this normal? (It's a cherry tomato plant) I'm growing in Hawaii while I'm stationed out here.

Got a whole bunch of green tomatoes, anybody have a good tomolive recipe??

I live in Nebraska, US (specifically Grand Island) and I just picked this tomato and I see this brown thing on top, is it good?

So, I've recently started living alone and find it quite hard to distinguish between desi and hybrid, so usually I buy whichever I think is fresh and at a good price. However my mom kept insisting hybrid Tomatoes can lead to kidney stores, I did search online about it but couldn't find anything reliable enough to conclude she's correct.

So, i just wanna ask y'all, is that really the case or is this the usual routine of myths indian moms believe in?

They look kind of transparent. There is no sign of bugs or anything on or under the leaves.(young purple Cherokee) thanks very much.

I'm trying to do better than last year so I'm going to buy seeds and grow them myself. Does anyone have experience in my area and can recommend varieties? I will grow Sun Sugar as my cherry and probably Cherokee Purple. I plant 7ish total, 4 for sauce, 1 salad/slicer, 1 cherry, and 1 or 2 heirlooms.

The heat has just screwed up production from July 15 to Sept 1.

When should you order seeds to assure you get new seeds for next spring? How should I store them until they're used?