Best way to ripen immature tomato?
 

I was cutting leaves off and accidentally cut off 2 premature Cherokee purples. What is the best way to allow these to ripen? Should I take them off the limb?

Rzr,

Put them in a brown paper bag or set them next to bananas.

Michael

My grandfather always went out just before the last frost warning and picked every tomato on the vines, green or not. The ones that were not yet ripe or very close to, he and grandma carefully wrapped in white tissue and put into a bushel basket - maybe 3 or 4 layers deep tops. Every few days he would get another tomato or two out of the basket and take them up to ripen on the window sill. We had "fresh" tomatoes almost until Christmas, practically a miracle in New England in the days before long distance shipping of "fresh" produce from California.

This is totally off topic...but is your town where the reel got it's name? I've never heard of Pflugerville before.

Don

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Pflugerville received its name from the Henry Pfluger Sr. family. He and his family immigrated from Germany to America in 1849, since they had received encouraging letters from relatives that had come to America for social and economic reasons, so they also came and colonized this area of Texas.