Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: dmg on September 24, 2012, 20:58
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I have 6 different varietys of tomatoes that most have ripened, with the excepetion of the plum roma's which are all still green . Is this variety normally so late in ripening or is it just the weather this year?
dmg
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My romas have been ripening for some time now, but I think it's a lot to do with the weather. Everything is late!
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all my cheery type tommys are ripening nicely but my romas are still very green apart from two. I never understand why a couple will go ripe but the others dont look anywhere near starting.
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I grow four varieties and the Roma have ripened with the rest. One thing I did notice is that the Roma is the only one to suffer from blossom end rot.
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my romas are slow too - the other problem we have with them is caterpillars damaging the fruit (bright line brown eye moth as it happens). The bush habit must suit them more than cordons, and it's been hard to find them all and pick them off...will dig over the borders very carefully this year to get as many of the pupae as I can...
sav
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. The bush habit must suit them more than cordons,
sav
I didn't know they were grown as a bush, I've always grown them as a cordon. Is that better?
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Is this variety normally so late in ripening or is it just the weather this year?
dmg
We grew Roma here once, a few seasons ago, when the weather was better. They were very late compared to all the other varieties that year and ran out of time to ripen.
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. The bush habit must suit them more than cordons,
sav
I didn't know they were grown as a bush, I've always grown them as a cordon. Is that better?
googling it now I see that some sites say bush/determinate but others say semi-bush/semi-determinate... what's that then? Ah yes, having looked that up I understand I think...it fruits on main and sideshoots rather than one or the other
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I grow four varieties and the Roma have ripened with the rest. One thing I did notice is that the Roma is the only one to suffer from blossom end rot.
My Roma had blossom end rot too, but the Inca didn't!
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I grow four varieties and the Roma have ripened with the rest. One thing I did notice is that the Roma is the only one to suffer from blossom end rot.
They grow VERY bushy though Annen. I'm thinking I may do my Roma and Inca more cordonish next time!
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I preferrred Inca over Roma, grown here anyway.
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My Inca are bigger than the Roma too! :)
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I've grown Inca outside this year, think the seed came with one of John books. :happy: I grew them especially for chutney and sauces, not for eating fresh.
I had a few ripen but not enough to do anything with. The rest i picked green and made green tomato chutney. I thought they were an excellent tomato for what i used them for and will grow them again.
The Shirley and Money Maker in the greenhouse have been some of the best toms i've ever grown, but my greenhouse is very warm.
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My San Marzano's are definitely taking their time. Bananas in the greenhouse and I'm picking them as soon as they start to turn and finishing them off on the windowsill.
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My Roma are still green, but big fruits and lots of them. Hope they ripen soon or no sauce for me this year.
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Mine are ripening and I usually get some on a daily basis. I had both doors open on the greenhouse but I've closed them now and hope that the bit of extra warmth might encourage ripening. Still got the window ajar though I don't hurry to clear mine out, as some folks who seem keen to throw the baby out with the bath water do :) I love toms and I want as many as I can get for sauces etc :)
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I haven't cleared mine because I wanted to, but because of blight/botrytis :(
If we're talking about greenhouse growing, I should move this to Polytunnels & Greenhouses - but the OP didn't say :wacko:
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Aw Mum, I've been nibbling away at mine too but couldn't bear to hoik them out if I didn't have to either. :(
Still have a few denuded San Marzanos outside but now starting to get blight/botrytis in the greenhouse.
Just hoping to get them to the size that it's worth ripening them indoors...