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Question by dsjnix: why are the small tomotoes ripening before the larger ones?
I have several tomato plants on my deck. One in a pot on the deck and one in one of those hanging planters. The pot is producing much more than the hanging planter. My question is this. I have several large still green tomatoes that have been growing for weeks and then other small ones that have not been growing long at all and that are already turning red. Why is it that these small new tomatoes would ripen so small and young before the older larger ones?
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Answer by Becca
Probably because the little ones have less to ripen then the big ones…because they’re little.
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Uh…they’re smaller?
I don’t mean that to be sarcastic, but tomatoes have been hybridized so much over the years that some do better under certain circumstances than others.
It takes a while for the larger tomatoes to ripen.
I’ve had potted or in-the-ground tomato plants in the past and they go like gangbusters to the point where I’m knocking on neighbor’s doors and leaving them baskets of tomatoes.
This year, we’re trying the hanging planter theory and finding it is taking a little longer for the plant to produce and we’re getting one or two or three ripe tomatoes at a time, which is perfect for us.
Are they receiving sufficient water? Plants will do whatever they need to do to survive.
Aside from it being a survival technique, I don’t have a clue.