Wow! This is great. I have a lot of ripe ones at the moment but I'll try this for the ones that are still green when the cold sets in. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this video. I’m going to try this for sure. I’m in Cornwall, England. We’ve had a hot summer. Tomato plants did really well but none have ripened. I never knew that too much heat could be a problem until researching just now. Seems all my neighbours have the same problem so I’ll share the tip.
I only now just watched this video, and you have giving me an awesome idea on how to maybe ripen avo's. We usually wrap them in newspaper, and then store in a dark place, (like you showed with your first step). But here in South Africa, the avo's are being picked very young and very small, due to the crazy weather conditions, and the newspaper trick is not working. So thank you for the banana idea!
This worked quite well here in Frisco, Texas. I have to remove my tomatoes just as they are beginning to turn a little orange due to the mockingbirds. Mockingbirds love to decimate a perfect tomato just as it turns vine ripe. Thanks for the video. I have 'liked', subscribed, and put in a folder for future use.
I’ve just harvested mine (first time growing) and have popped them in paper bags in the hope they ripen, I didn’t have any bananas. I’ve grown three varieties xx
banana works wonders, even in winter I can eat, soft, juicy and sweet tomatoes thank to bananas. No need to wrap, I just put them together in same container and a few days later tomatoes will ripen nicely.
Are seeds from bag-ripened tomatoes still viable? I've been ripening tomatoes off the vine because of cold nights, then collecting and fermenting the seeds - are they still good, despite being harvested early?
Yeah, it totally worked! I got 75% germination with twelve seeds - now I have hundreds more to donate to my local seed library! I pulled the tomatoes off the vine when they were orangy, ripened them in a bag, fermented the seeds etc. It worked!
OK ! the 24 hour thing actually shocked me cause I just load mine in a brown paper bag without any extra fruits in there and assumed this was comparible but its not even close, this seems double the speed
Will the gases from the banana make the tomatoes taste like bananas? Whenever I’d accidentally leave a loaf of bread (in its bag) next to some bananas it would taste like bananas.
Yes, bananas DO ripen other fruits. I mistakenly left two bananas in a cardboard box, next to a mango that was still quite hard. A few days later i looked into the box to get a banana, and the mango had ripened , just right for eating.
You can as a soil supplement but ethylene won't be concentrated enough to help ripen the Tomatoes. Here's my information tutorial on how to ripen Tomatoes on the Vine ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-86uZh_nzbZA.html
