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Why aren't my tomatoes going red?

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liahgen · 11/08/2009 08:52

I have moneymakers and also some small ones and lots of fruit onbig bushes but I'm wondering if my plants are so bushy the sun isn't getting to the fruit to ripen it.

They're in a sunny spot but how long do they take to go red

Sorry not very interesting question.

tia

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sherby · 13/08/2009 11:29

all red here

weirdly enough, they have had NO maintenance whatsoever

we planted them in the sunny spot in the garden and promptly forgot about them

only remembered the other day when DS came in with his mouth full of tomatoes and DD showed me where he had got them from lol

3 Huge plants just gone mad all fallen over and growing out along the ground and really bushy! but tons of lovely red tomatoes (apart from the rain they haven't even been watered)!

sherby · 13/08/2009 11:30

also a lovely big orange pumpkin which has got some mad curly wurly stalk (like a slinky) which is about 4 meters long!

CurlyhairedAssassin · 15/08/2009 00:29

Loads of time for 'em to go red yet. I remember one year, we still had loads of green ones on the plants on the patio in Octover. My mum said to just cut off the branches witih toms on and bring them inside and put them on a sunny window ledge and they'd ripen and turn red no probs. And they did!

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