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Originally Posted by jungseed
I had one Lemon Boy plant last year. Had a nice green, starting to turn a bright yellow tomato on it, but an animal got it before I did. Maybe this year I will pick all my fruit when they start to turn color instead of waiting for them to ripen on the vine. I have been reading that it will not affect the taste noticably. Is that true?
Ruth
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Look for this summer's thread on something like "picking at first blush." I started doing this the one year when the birds and squirrels were sampling my tomatoes (they've hardly touched them since! the humans are a bigger problem at the community garden), and as far as I can tell, it doesn't make much difference. The red/pink ones seem especially susceptible to predation when they're the only ones close to ripening.