So...what's the secret?????

**chris** · 24-08-2010, 07:28 AM

Maybe there's a chemical "Ripen all together" spray?

**pipkins** · 24-08-2010, 07:30 AM

When you find out please let me know

**womble** · 24-08-2010, 07:30 AM

I learnt this recently from MSE, they use ethylene gas, the same stuff you get from ripe bananas.

**rustylady** · 24-08-2010, 07:33 AM

I think I'd rather pick mine as and when they're ready

**Bren In Pots** · 24-08-2010, 07:40 AM

I've only managed to have a whole red truss once only because I wanted to enter the vine comp,
so I left a sticky note on it saying 'leave alone' wonder if that helped

**womble** · 24-08-2010, 07:44 AM

Originally posted by Bren In Pots View Post

I've only managed to have a whole red truss once only because I wanted to enter the vine comp,
so I left a sticky note on it saying 'leave alone' wonder if that helped

I did the same last year, as I was putting the vine into a box to take to the show, I knocked off 2 tomatoes......... so I glued them on with superglue

won the class as well.

**Nicos** · 24-08-2010, 07:47 AM

ethylene gas...ah yes...banana skins and all that???

So Bren- sticky pads eh????....now THAT really is a well kept secret!!

...how do other grapes do it more naturally than the commercial gassing method?
you see loads of trusses of toms in village comptitions...how on earth do they manage that????

**Nicos** · 24-08-2010, 07:48 AM

Originally posted by womble View Post

superglue.

Te he...thats soooo naughty!!!!...but I LOVE it!!!!

**Bren In Pots** · 24-08-2010, 07:53 AM

Originally posted by Nicos View Post

So Bren- sticky pads eh????....now THAT really is a well kept secret!!

BTW It has to be those yellow one

**Nicos** · 24-08-2010, 08:43 AM

Ah ha!!!!

( thank you!!!

...I promise I won't tell anyone else

) (I might get locked away if i did!!!

)

**Keith2202** · 24-08-2010, 11:00 AM

Originally posted by Nicos View Post

ethylene gas...ah yes...banana skins and all that???

So Bren- sticky pads eh????....now THAT really is a well kept secret!!

...how do other grapes do it more naturally than the commercial gassing method?
you see loads of trusses of toms in village comptitions...how on earth do they manage that????

If you leave the ripe ones on they give off ethylene and the rest of the truss goes ripe as well, eventually, that has certainly happened with my Galina toms. I think patience is required.
Some types are bred to ripen at once as well for commercial "looks good on the shelf" purposes as opposed to taste!

**kentvegplot** · 25-08-2010, 04:44 PM

Also, the growers cheat! Any toms that didn't ripen get removed before being sent for sale. If the vine is trimmed well, you can't see where the ends were taken off.....

**Nicos** · 25-08-2010, 04:48 PM

Originally posted by Keith2202 View Post

I think patience is required.

...but...but ....I've been waiting since February when I germinated the seeds

...and now they are red...and you're telling me to leave them be??

*faints

**brockie** · 25-08-2010, 07:46 PM

hang a banana skin next to them

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