WHY DO TOMATOES STAY GREEN? HOW TO RIPEN GREEN TOMATOES IN COLD CLIMATES | Gardening in Canada 🍅

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  • Why do tomatoes stay green on the vine & how does a gardener ensure they have vine ripened tomatoes all summer long? In this video we get into the science of exactly where tomatoes get their red colour. And what you can do as a gardener to ensure that the red tomatoes you dream about will soon be on your table. Red tomatoes are dependent on the growing conditions around them, if the temperatures are not exact then you simply may need to wait. or watch this video for other solutions you way want to try. Vine tomatoes are so heavily sought after that due to their flavour, texture and overall appearance but sometimes mother nature has different plants when she refuses to change you tomatoes from green to red.
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  • @artstamper316
    @artstamper316 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. This is exactly what I needed to hear. Apparently a lot of people are having this exact issue. I just got my first ripe tomato two days ago. Thankfully I've been having cherry tomatoes for a couple of weeks already, but the bigger ones of all varieties haven't been ripening, which is understandable because I've kept them under 40% shade cloth due to the extreme heat. I'm taking a chance on the heat now because the shade cloth came off today. 😅

  • @jamestrefethen4189
    @jamestrefethen4189 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rock Springs, Wyoming here. One of the local industries here is mining sodium bicarbonate. Yes, the native soil is quite alkaline. I will probably need to work very hard to get the ph down.

  • @GardeningInCanada
    @GardeningInCanada  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for watching! Do you have any tomatoes or peppers that stay green forever? What methods have you tried to us to fix this?

  • @TimRoseOfficial
    @TimRoseOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    *_Hey my friend! Found you through Cathrin's page and wanted to stop in and say hi! Wishing you tons of success on your TH-cam journey! ^_^_*

  • @markcdeyoung3118
    @markcdeyoung3118 ปีที่แล้ว

    I planted a hundred plants (Roma variety) here in Southeast Missouri I planted them on April 1st the tomatoes got huge and look really healthy and it was an optimum growing year not too hot not too cold Goldilocks but the strangest thing I've ever seen in my garden those tomatoes stayed green all the way up until Frost (about 6 months) still looking healthy but still a bright shade of green I lost half of them to frost before I decided to bring them in and put them in paper bags and when I done that within a week they got bright red and tasted awesome I thought I was going to have to take those green and make fried green tomatoes out of them which is pretty good with fried okra ...but I had already eat all my okra

  • @shabnamahmmed9769
    @shabnamahmmed9769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    how did you read my mind? yeah I was having same questions for my pepper plants! as you told- its just the end of July.... I am going to have some more patience. Thank you

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Awesome!!! I’m happy the timing was right

  • @themightymustache69
    @themightymustache69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very interesting

  • @nikanj6
    @nikanj6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just rewatched. So informative. Now that a cold snap hit zone 7 interrupting my vine ripening how about a video on growing tomatoes inside maybe hydroponicly.

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ooh goodness 🤣 I could do a video on that but I don’t think I have the space!

    • @misspandesal
      @misspandesal 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My kratky method tomatoes never got as big as the ones I planted in the ground

  • @krisyallowega5487
    @krisyallowega5487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks, I have been feeling pretty and yet handsome these days!
    I have some 500 gram tomatoes on a couple of plants in my patch. I think the plants I picked up this Spring were mislabeled...I have never had a Manitoba Bush variety grow over 1.5 metres before.
    Thanks for the view of your plots..oh, and you are beautiful too!

  • @katherinem.a.nelson3299
    @katherinem.a.nelson3299 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you so much!

  • @kele1264
    @kele1264 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    YES!!! I have a bell pepper plant that is supposed to be a Red Bell Pepper Plant. It's producing peppers just fine. Two of them are huge, and I'm playing a waiting game hoping they'll turn red. I don't want pests to get them. The smaller ones that I've picked green are good, although thin-walled. Went through a heat wave two weeks ago. In another heat wave now. Should I keep waiting, or cut my bell peppers green? Thank you Ashley!

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yea so you can wait or cut it. But I encourage you to leave it so you can get that bright colour.

    • @kele1264
      @kele1264 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GardeningInCanada Thank you. I'll stick with it!

    • @tanyasteers4802
      @tanyasteers4802 ปีที่แล้ว

      3 weeks after mature turn red

  • @leannepalmerston8986
    @leannepalmerston8986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ly-KOH-PEEN not Ly-POH-SEEN. ;)

  • @yssubed2
    @yssubed2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I didn’t ask but must have been reading my mind. Tomatoes are dripping with fruit but taking their time to ripen. I noticed a Roma starting to turn pink today so perhaps they are on their way. Current heat wave supposed to break tonight so hopefully nice red tomatoes will follow (and maybe some female spaghetti squash will join them). Do you think deeper and more watering might help?

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You know it definitely might bring the temperature down to help.

    • @yssubed2
      @yssubed2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gardening In Canada - I’ll give that a try. On top of the constant high temperatures we’ve also been in near drought conditions so some extra water certainly won’t hurt. Still no sign of female spaghetti squash flowers despite 12’ of vine and constant male flowers.

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’ll come I promise. The plant won’t forget.

  • @FknNefFy
    @FknNefFy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oooh! I like the experiments! I’m in

  • @VIDSTORAGE
    @VIDSTORAGE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wood Ash might help since it is good to use to boost the flowering and fruit a stage ..Maybe I am wrong but it does help the mature growth anyways..

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s possible!

    • @VIDSTORAGE
      @VIDSTORAGE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Make ketchup fertilizer tea with added red food coloring ..Who knows ,maybe it could work ...HAHA ,try anything once,,, what the hec ...A small amount will not kill it I assume. ..I just thought of that as a joke really but I am gonna try it on one of mine and they are 9 weeks old now with slow ripening.also....Yea I have organic ketchup also......../****

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s fair!

  • @adnanelguennouni
    @adnanelguennouni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:40 is that a Mary Jane Plant behind you? :D
    It looks beautiful!

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hahaha it is! But honestly I don’t know what I’m even doing with it. I’m having a hard time getting it to bloom!

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😆

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup! I have a few more this year

  • @TheAADempsey
    @TheAADempsey 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Any advice on watering? I know it is difficult to provide any guidance given the variables. Just curious what you do. The tomatoes I have harvested so far are all terrible - watery and not sweet at all. I am pretty sure I am over watering. A few weeks back we had a pretty good 'heat wave' (30C+ for many days in a row here in Southern Ontario) and around that time I noticed plants had fruit with BER. I assumed it was because I was not watering consistently, especially with the high temps. So, I increased my watering to try to combat the BER. BER is gone, but who knows why for sure. So now, I basically water on a routine. If the daily highs are 30C+, I water all my 20 gallon fabric pots daily and my beds every other day. If the highs are

  • @tammyrea8781
    @tammyrea8781 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you choose to remove leaves instead of suckers to make a less bushy plant?

  • @FknNefFy
    @FknNefFy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This leads up to another possible experiment but what I was actually wondering was if I write been agreeing to meet on the counter is anything being lost any mention flavor little bit but is that a fact? And if you can ripened tomatoes off the vine why not just take them off as soon as they are the full size and then your plant can use it’s energy for other new growth..?

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You most definitely could. I’m not sure about the flavour though I would have to look at some research papers. It maybe less because there is no photosynthesis to increase the sugar content.

  • @LittleGardenSK
    @LittleGardenSK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ok! So since we r both in Zone 3 Sask I’m going to rely on you to say “it’s time to top those tomatoes”! I have a small bunch of slicers almost fully ripened😋😋. Since we are in for a heat wave this week- should I go pick em now?

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You definitely could they may last longer out of the heat. It’s definitely hot out this week. And deal I will broadcast when I officially do it.

    • @LittleGardenSK
      @LittleGardenSK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gardening In Canada 👍

  • @thetheoryprincess3050
    @thetheoryprincess3050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Even my tomato plant that was dwindled down to basically a "stem" a couple months ago, is now my largest tomato plant! It's absolutely unbelievable. However, (and I'm guessing it's because of the heat), I have a lot of tomatoes on several plants, but they are all green. Not sure if it's time to take them indoors, or if we should just leave them be. I have NEVER had tomato plants grow this tall and be this plentiful so hopefully, we don't lose them. Also, I have a question, is it possible to over water your plants when they are planted in the ground, or is that just specific to containers?

    • @GardeningInCanada
      @GardeningInCanada  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s so hard to over water and outside plant in high summer. The exception is in heavy clay

    • @thetheoryprincess3050
      @thetheoryprincess3050 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GardeningInCanada thank you ashley. I will take note of any areas that are more clay-like. Different areas of our yard seem to have different soil consistencies. We have just over half an acre of land - a good chunk of it, unused.

  • @ravenwoodacres-homegrown
    @ravenwoodacres-homegrown 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lycopene or 'lypocene' ... you are mispronouncing this in your video. lai · kow · peen

  • @BDazzld2
    @BDazzld2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Too wordy