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Originally Posted by gsnader
These images are helpful. I'm a fellow gardener from Lancaster county and am just starting into the world of tomato crosses. At what point in the summer do you stop making crosses? I'm assuming there is point at which it's not worth it to make a cross because the tomato won't set fruit in time, am I right in that assumption?
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Here in central Indiana (used to be zone 5b, maybe 6a now) I find that August 15th is the cutoff date for hand-pollination. Tomatoes take about 6 weeks from pollination to ripening, longer if the weather gets cold. Cherry tomatoes ripen a bit faster.