When you buy tomatoes here in DR they can sometimes be very green and unripe as you all know. With these there are normally 2 chances: they will either ripen up after a short while or they'll go soft and squidgy but still be unripe so you throw them.
Seven weeks ago I must have purchased a hybrid. It was dark green and hard. Each day I have put it in the sun and little by little we have had some change. It went from dark green to light green and is now veering to yellow. It is a little softer than before but still not ripe. Amazingly after 7 weeks it hasn't gone bad. I'm a patient soul but am now beginning to have some doubts as to whether this will ever ripen. And meanwhile I keep up the daily ritual of taking it from the kitchen to the sun, muttering vegetable ripening incantations.......... Maybe belief in higher powers is insufficient in the case of this tomato? Maybe it is just plain stubborn? Maybe I should be using the insights of behavioural psychology?
If it was designed by its maker to be a yellow tomato, wouldn't it go full yellow and RIPEN?
Now I'd be the first to admit that in the world order of DR challenges this cannot rank as primus inter pares. No way can it compare with Matilda's transformadora or dv8's purple-bottomed puss. But I was wondering if any of the lycopersicologists out there had any valid insights as to what I might do next? Horticulturally speaking, that is.
Seven weeks ago I must have purchased a hybrid. It was dark green and hard. Each day I have put it in the sun and little by little we have had some change. It went from dark green to light green and is now veering to yellow. It is a little softer than before but still not ripe. Amazingly after 7 weeks it hasn't gone bad. I'm a patient soul but am now beginning to have some doubts as to whether this will ever ripen. And meanwhile I keep up the daily ritual of taking it from the kitchen to the sun, muttering vegetable ripening incantations.......... Maybe belief in higher powers is insufficient in the case of this tomato? Maybe it is just plain stubborn? Maybe I should be using the insights of behavioural psychology?
If it was designed by its maker to be a yellow tomato, wouldn't it go full yellow and RIPEN?
Now I'd be the first to admit that in the world order of DR challenges this cannot rank as primus inter pares. No way can it compare with Matilda's transformadora or dv8's purple-bottomed puss. But I was wondering if any of the lycopersicologists out there had any valid insights as to what I might do next? Horticulturally speaking, that is.