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Fri, Oct 24, 14 at 14:33
| Friday, October 24, 2014. Hard to believe, but some of my tomatoes - mostly cherries, but also some late-season too - decided to... flower. |
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| Weather permitting in zone 7 it is fairly common. We have had an unusually warm fall down here over the past several years and tomato blooms develop well into early November. Further south, even later assuming plants are healthy still. When possible to move those plants under cover ripe tomatoes can be served for Christmas dinner here. :) Doubt it is possible in NY unless you have a greenhouse. Dave |
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| Tomato plants, being genetically a perennial, do not have a sensor for seasons. I started pinching all buds/flowers starting lat August on my plants. Because I new that those buds are not going to make it. I was right. My plants are loaded with fruits initiated before end of august but are not ripening, EXCEPT a handful of Sun Golds. . I picked some as big as 10 to 18 oz (Ananas Noir, Cherokee purple) and smaller varieties with slight hint of color, just yesterday , Hoping that they might ripen inside . I have hundreds more that are green, no chance to ripen. Incidentally we have had a goo fall weather. Our lows now going down to about 45F and highs around 57F. I gave up on pinching by the end of September. Even now some of them are flowering, while almost half dead. They just don't get it. Dets seem to be a bit cold sensitive. |
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