Do outdoor tomatoes need to be brought in to ripen now?

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It has turned colder.
Tomatoes are outdoors, in London.
Is the weather too cold now for them to continue ripening outdoors?
I have some that are almost completely ripe, some that are starting to gain colour, some still green, but pale green now.

Shall I pick them all and bring them indoors and ripen in a paper bag?

Thanks to this thread I have brought my tomatoes into the conservatory.

Then I fell down a step and have my foot in an ice pack. I hope I haven't broken anything

Brilliant thread. I didn't know about leaf stripping to bring on the ripening. This is so useful. Thank you.

Oh no, Gin - hope foot heals and tomatoes ripen soonest.

It’s heat not sunlight that ripens tomatoes. So windowsill is only good if it gets warm.
Otherwise wrap in paper bag and stick in a warm drawer.

My mam says they’re fine til the first frosts.

I just picked another full bowl today, so they are continuing to ripen outdoors. One had fallen over in the wind though...... lots of string later, it is now hanging on for dear life!

As my orangery is chock full of oranges, and my conservatory full of conserves, I have put many slightly colouring tomatoes into a big shoebox near a radiator, with sheets of kitchen paper laid directly on top of the tomatoes to try and keep the ethylene in.

The green ones are still on the plants, many leaves snipped off.

A couple of weeks ago I put 2 green tomatoes in the bowl that I keep replenished with ripe tomatoes. They did nothing for two weeks, then turned red over about 3 days.

Brought all the ones that were over 3 cm in diameter in. The orangebone had been brought in a week earlier and had been green.
The tiny ones are still outside think they'll die in the frost, but they were too small.

My tomatoes were awful this year

I propagated a whole tray of seedlings and then successfully planted out 4 good plants and I ended up with 1 successful fruit!

So disheartened

I have masses, currently in 3 places: outside, airing cupboard, light windowsill. Will see what happens.

Mine have been terrible too, what makes it worse is that I didn't grow them from seed myself but spent good money on a plant! Anyway, I've loads of green ones and have read that bringing them in still on the stem and left on a windowsill (like lots have already said here) should help ripen, so I'm going to try that this week.

Paper bag in with a ripe apple worked for me last year. Went from green to red. It's the gases that come off the ripe fruit that helps the tomatoes go red. Bring in a bag concentrates the gases.

One of my tomatoes that fell down during last weeks wind, lost loads of green tomatoes. One week on and they have all turned red, on my windowsill above a radiator.

In other news, following the HUGE amount of rain, went to pick some yesterday and a dozen or so had literally burst open. Not just the odd line you get sometimes, and can eat, but literally burst, with insides out.

They are still ripening though, so obviously lucky here. They are in grow bags, against a west facing wall, so if the sun comes out in the afternoon it warms the wall. I think that must help.

Some of mine burst open, too.