Green tomatoes - how accelerate the ripening? - Page 2

NarnianGarden · October 4, 2016

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Originally Posted by bower

Ethylene... fascinating stuff.

As for bananas, a ripe banana is a banana about to rot, in my experience. Eat it or rot it, you have a day to decide which more or less.

One more option for bananas: Put them in a banana bread

The blacker the fruit, the better the cake!

**carolyn137** · October 4, 2016

Clara, about your Hawaiian Pineapple.

I totally forgot to give you Tania's link which shows that seeds are available if you ever need them and gives you the history on this one as well .

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...iian_Pineapple

Tania would be a good source and it's possible that if you need them that if you posted in the WANTED seed subforum someone might have them.

Carolyn

clara · October 5, 2016

Carolyn, it's NOT Hawaiian Pineapple, but MARIANNA'S Hawaiian Pineapple that I'm sooo keen on to get more ripe fruits. I don't know anything about its origin and/or the breeder and can only suppose that it's a cross between Marianna's Peace and Hawaiian Pineapple - the only ripe fruit I had so far was yellow-red or red-yellow (can't decide what fits better), a beauty to look at and darned tasty! Big size, a real slicer.

PS: I had got the seeds from France, a few years ago, but only now had decided to grow it - I'd wish I had done it way earlier!

**carolyn137** · October 5, 2016

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Originally Posted by clara

Carolyn, it's NOT Hawaiian Pineapple, but MARIANNA'S Hawaiian Pineapple that I'm sooo keen on to get more ripe fruits. I don't know anything about its origin and/or the breeder and can only suppose that it's a cross between Marianna's Peace and Hawaiian Pineapple - the only ripe fruit I had so far was yellow-red or red-yellow (can't decide what fits better), a beauty to look at and darned tasty! Big size, a real slicer.

PS: I had got the seeds from France, a few years ago, but only now had decided to grow it - I'd wish I had done it way earlier!

I apologize Clara.

Before you clarified the origin of this variety in this post I thought you were referring to Marianna's (Marianne Jones) website and she and Dean were listing this variety. But all they list is Hawaiian Pineapple.I just checked.

And that's why I gave Tania's link.

The following link should clarify the situation as to Hawaiian Pineapple and Marianna's Hawaiian Pineapple being the same. That's me reading the French, I do OK,but please confirm for me.

http://www.tomatofifou.fr/recherche-...ple-626-detail

Merci,

Carolyn

clara · October 5, 2016

Many thanks, Carolyn, I've just read the link. But: I'm still convinced that I have another tomato than Hawaiian Pineapple... "My" tomato is bicolor, inside and outside - Hawaiian Pineapple "only" yellow or orange.

Ventmarin lists Marianna's HP as bicolor, too, and posts a few pics.

http://ventmarin.free.fr/passion_tom..._pineapple.htm

Another "but": My tomatoes (the already ripe one and the greenies) are not ribbed at all, but "only" round and the ripe one had much more red color. They are not flattened (ventmarin says "aplati") at all, but have a really perfect round shape. Seems to be a mystery...

MadCow333 · October 11, 2016

I found some old window screens in my basement. I put those on top of empty planters, laid newspaper on them, put the tomatoes on there, and just let them ripen in open air. They paced themselves well and we had tomatoes through December last year. Very little rot except for toms that were clearly immature and fuzzy when picked.

The romas were loaded up with green toms last year when 1st frost loomed. I dragged romas containers and all into basement and let them ripen another couple of weeks on the vines. The leaves all fell off from no light but toms had good flavor. I picked the romas and put them on the screens / racks with the rest.

Basement is unfinished old fashioned kind with little heat.

This year I have more toms. I am going to set up my 2 cheapo greenhouses and use them uncovered as more racks. I actually kept one out on the porch and used it covered to store fresh ripe toms all summer because basement is cold and musty in summer. I have definitely gotten 30 dollars of value out of those 2 greenhouses i bought on clearance at Tractor Supply. 15 dolla each. lol

October 4, 2016	#17
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	Clara, about your Hawaiian Pineapple. I totally forgot to give you Tania's link which shows that seeds are available if you ever need them and gives you the history on this one as well . http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...iian_Pineapple Tania would be a good source and it's possible that if you need them that if you posted in the WANTED seed subforum someone might have them. Carolyn __________________ Carolyn

October 11, 2016	#21
MadCow333 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: NW PA 6A Posts: 159	I found some old window screens in my basement. I put those on top of empty planters, laid newspaper on them, put the tomatoes on there, and just let them ripen in open air. They paced themselves well and we had tomatoes through December last year. Very little rot except for toms that were clearly immature and fuzzy when picked. The romas were loaded up with green toms last year when 1st frost loomed. I dragged romas containers and all into basement and let them ripen another couple of weeks on the vines. The leaves all fell off from no light but toms had good flavor. I picked the romas and put them on the screens / racks with the rest. Basement is unfinished old fashioned kind with little heat. This year I have more toms. I am going to set up my 2 cheapo greenhouses and use them uncovered as more racks. I actually kept one out on the porch and used it covered to store fresh ripe toms all summer because basement is cold and musty in summer. I have definitely gotten 30 dollars of value out of those 2 greenhouses i bought on clearance at Tractor Supply. 15 dolla each. lol Last edited by MadCow333; October 11, 2016 at 08:18 AM.

October 5, 2016	#18
clara Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 1,351	Carolyn, it's NOT Hawaiian Pineapple, but MARIANNA'S Hawaiian Pineapple that I'm sooo keen on to get more ripe fruits. I don't know anything about its origin and/or the breeder and can only suppose that it's a cross between Marianna's Peace and Hawaiian Pineapple - the only ripe fruit I had so far was yellow-red or red-yellow (can't decide what fits better), a beauty to look at and darned tasty! Big size, a real slicer. PS: I had got the seeds from France, a few years ago, but only now had decided to grow it - I'd wish I had done it way earlier!