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Old February 6, 2015   #1
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I was given 2 black cherries tomatos last year and I saved the seeds from one.
Not sure who or where the tomatos were grown.
The seeds sprouted almost immediately 4 out of 4.
My question is the plants are around 4 foot tall and have about 15-20 tomatos on each plant and they are falling off while thay are still green. A few have got dark
but not black. I have several other types of cherries going and only the black cherries are dropping off prematurely?
What causes a cherry tomato to drop immature fruit?
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Old February 7, 2015   #2
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Gravity.

Sorry I can't help out with the real answer, but I've never had cherries drop.
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Old February 7, 2015   #3
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Maybe you have a Green-when-ripe mutation? Gently squeeze the green ones and see if they feel ripe!

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Old February 7, 2015   #4
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Welcome to Tomatoville!

Something probably is causing stress to that plant unless it is as Linda says a green when ripe tomato which you can readily check. Maybe it got too hot, or too cold and is a more sensitive variety, or many other possibilities for usually what are environmental stresses.

If that is not the case, besides gravity LOL, perhaps you saved seeds from a plant with the never ripe, or uniform ripening gene mutations, (Nr, rin, nor) in which unlikely case your tomato could need an ethylene boost to properly ripen.

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Or, if you don't know what the variety is you saved seeds from, is it possible it was a hybrid?
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Old February 7, 2015   #6
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I agree with the suggestion to give them the squeeze test for ripeness. My black cherries in the hoophouse get nice and dark, but the outside-grown ones almost never get as dark, more of a drab tan color. They taste just fine, but they never look as good as the inside-grown ones.
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