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Dear All
this is the first serious year of growing our own.
One of the things we did (wrong!) was to plant quite a few tomato plants quite close together and basically leave them to it.
This resulted in lots of fruit which we could not get to, some so heavy it ended up dragging the plants down to the ground.
So in an effort to save much of the fruit i decided to pick the fruit green and ripen off the plant (in hind sight and with family advice this may not have been the best strategy but i am where i am).
Anyway to the problem.
Much of the fruit is not ripening but the skin is turning black and perhaps i can describe the texture as pock marked. The skin is not broken but just has a lot of shallow dimples or pock marks.
My father in law says he thinks its becuase they got wet, but that doesnt ring true to me because all of the tomatoes were in similar situations and there are tomatoes from the same vine that are ripening fine while others get this black/textured skin on them.
Any ideas what might have caused this?
If a picture would help ill try to upload later on.
I am not sure of the variety of the toms, only that they are a cherry variety.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Glenn
this is the first serious year of growing our own.
One of the things we did (wrong!) was to plant quite a few tomato plants quite close together and basically leave them to it.
This resulted in lots of fruit which we could not get to, some so heavy it ended up dragging the plants down to the ground.
So in an effort to save much of the fruit i decided to pick the fruit green and ripen off the plant (in hind sight and with family advice this may not have been the best strategy but i am where i am).
Anyway to the problem.
Much of the fruit is not ripening but the skin is turning black and perhaps i can describe the texture as pock marked. The skin is not broken but just has a lot of shallow dimples or pock marks.
My father in law says he thinks its becuase they got wet, but that doesnt ring true to me because all of the tomatoes were in similar situations and there are tomatoes from the same vine that are ripening fine while others get this black/textured skin on them.
Any ideas what might have caused this?
If a picture would help ill try to upload later on.
I am not sure of the variety of the toms, only that they are a cherry variety.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Glenn
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