wrinkled?

[babice]

Hi there! What would cause a tomato to wrinkle while still on the vine? I have some green/white striped ones, some of which are wrinkled. I thought - Oh! These must be ripe and the wrinkled ones must be over ripe. But, I cut one and it is really bitter/sour so I can't believe they're ripe. Would the overnight temps we've been lately (50's) do that?

[babice]

Could be under watering, huh? This is in an EB and I didn't realize it had gone dry.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by babice

Could be under watering, huh? This is in an EB and I didn't realize it had gone dry.

Maybe, but under watered would have wilting leaves which you surely would have recognized.
-Marsha

[bbjm]

I had sun scald and it caused my tomatoes to turn an off color and wrinkle a bit. But I'm not sure how common that would be this time of year.

[RobinB]

At the beginning of the season, I had one plant that had a wrinkled tomato. It turned out to need extra water, and when I gave it a nice deep watering the tomato in the picture plumped back up. I had never seen this before! Did yours look anything like this? This tomato went on to ripen and be just fine!

[babice]

Yep Robin it looked exactly like that. And mine plumped back up too when I gave them extra water. Go figure!