No sign of tomatoes ripening

[Elephantsparade]

How are everyones tomatoes. Ours are all still very green. I am sure we normally have ripe ones by now.

Mine are still very green, especially the red cherry tomatoes. I have a second bush and have a handful of yellow cherry ones (not sure on the variety as was given the pug plants). But otherwise also very green.

Snap lovely size but green

(Not jealous, just a visual representation of my tomato plants)

Lots and lots of green tomatoes here in the greenhouse too but I'm not too worried.

I've some costoluto fiorentino plants outside that have only just started to set fruit, I'm going to cross my fingers for those ones.

Its not just me then. Im hoping for a good crop but was wondering in all the rain is stopping them turn.

Same boat here.
It’s been a funny plant year.

Mine are tiny and green so I might be making lots of chutney this year!

Mine are green. They don’t ripen until September which is ages awa…. Oh.

One of my patients gave me the advice to pick them, put them in brown paper and store them in the warm and dark and they'll soon go red.

I haven't tried it but he says it's what they've always done.

@Roundlampshade

Mine are green. They don’t ripen until September which is ages awa…. Oh.

I'm very hopeful a good proportion of mine will be red by September.

There's bloody loads of them this year though, in terms of yield this has definitely been my most productive year ever.

Mine are green. Can anyone explain why they aren’t growing round? Mine are like a teardrop shape. Long with a point. Not tomato shaped at all.

Can I ask a related question? I have some indoors. They are only just flowering now. Is there any hope they’ll produce fruit?

@DobbyTheHouseElk

Mine are green. Can anyone explain why they aren’t growing round? Mine are like a teardrop shape. Long with a point. Not tomato shaped at all.

Could just be the type? What type are you growing?

My shirleys can look a bit teardrop shaped, the Alisa Craigs next to them are perfectly round. .

Our greenhouse ones at the allotment are starting to go red (north west location) but the same variety in the garden at home are still green, as are my tumbling toms. Just been out to strip a load of leaves off to improve ventilation and light- the gospel according to Monty Don.

@SweatyBetty20

Our greenhouse ones at the allotment are starting to go red (north west location) but the same variety in the garden at home are still green, as are my tumbling toms. Just been out to strip a load of leaves off to improve ventilation and light- the gospel according to Monty Don.

I've done that for the first time this year and I have definitely noticed a difference.

I've just been out to look in the greenhouse based on this thread and I have one solitary red tomato from around 20 plants

I’m a first time grower and got lots of lovely green toms too!

Lots of green and 1 turning red. The plants themselves have been wild this year - I’m cutting them back every other day. They’re the same height as me now.

Ours started to ripen last week. I picked and ate two last Sunday (1st August), and this weekend, did a little victory dance outside the greenhouse when I realised that others are starting to ripen, too. Hopefully, the sunshine today and in the next few days will help.

Removing the lower foliage does help. I'm hoping the buggers do ripen, or there will be green tomato chutney to make, and I'd rather just eat them fresh and ripe...

DeepNorthFarmGardening Sungold. They usually are round. But they’ve forgotten to turn Orange and they’ve gone red. So I don’t know what they are doing.

My DM grew the seeds and hers are perfectly round. So obviously something odd I’m doing,

Mine are still green too! Glad it's not just me. I'm not very experienced with growing tomatoes but had a vague feeling that they should be ripening by now.

@DobbyTheHouseElk

DeepNorthFarmGardening Sungold. They usually are round. But they’ve forgotten to turn Orange and they’ve gone red. So I don’t know what they are doing.

My DM grew the seeds and hers are perfectly round. So obviously something odd I’m doing,

Any chance your mums tomato plants last year could have cross pollinated somehow?

If they did then the growth from this years seeds could be a hybrid...

Green here (Lancs). Big crop though.
MIL's have just started turning, Sheffield way.

They are about six weeks late this year because of the bad weather.

The mini cherry tomatoes (in greenhouse and on kitchen windowsill) are green but we've had some red ones/some that are worth ripening, and there are still lots of flowers.
The yellow plum tomatoes (in the greenhouse) are not even flowering very much!

Mine are orange. Not red yet!