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Re: Colder weather

>
>2. You can pick the tomatoes green and place them in a paper bag with a
>RIPE tomato or any ripe fruit. Ripe fruit gives of a gas called ethylene
>which helps ripen other green fruit. If you place them on a sunny
>windowsill it is unlikely that they would ripen very well as the  gas from
>the ripe fruit would dissipate. You do need some way of containing the gas,



Will a store bought tomato work for ripening or do older tomatoes stop
giving off ethylene after a time?

Also, as my cherry tomatoes are ripening the skins are spliting, there was
no sign of this when they were green.  Any idea why?

                                                        D.





                                               :{D>

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