Who's Experiencing Late Fruit Maturity?

[Father'sDaughter]

Originally Posted by marc_groleau

I'm in Northern RI right on the Mass border. We've had a record wet June and a record hot July. We're heading in to August now and although luckily, I have a fair amount of fruit, everything seems to be sitting there. Except for a few exceptions, the entire yield of my garden is sitting there waiting to ripen. Even my cherries are straggling by normal standards. I hope that disease doesn't get the plants before the fruit can be picked.
Anyone else having concerns?

I'm on the MA/NH border and I'm not having the best year either.

I planted out in mid-May and had a lot of early fruit set, which are starting to ripen, but I had no new fruit set until last week when the weather turned more favorable. Given that disease is now taking hold, I think the first round of fruit set will also be the last from most of my plants.

Cucumbers, sweet peppers and zucchini have been very slow to produce. I just picked my first cucumber yesterday, and I may have my first two zucchini next week. I pulled my garlic about a month ago, but one variety that started maturing earlier ended up mostly rotted from the June rain.

The eggplant, hot peppers, onions, shallots and pole beans seem to be the only things the weather had little effect on. And I am growing winter squash for the first time, but it just got planted after the garlic and shallots were pulled. If they produce any squash, I don't know if I'll have time for them to mature before frost, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[edweather]

Normally I think it's just in my head, but this year have only had one tomato blush, other than very early and cherry varieties. Hoping for a warm September.

[COMPOSTER]

I'm 67 days from transplant and am starting to see some ripening. Picked a Great White last night but my OS which is supposed to be very early doesn't look like it is getting ripe at all. Go figure.

[tnpeppers]

I may have cried 'wolf' re: my plants in NH...I thought I was going to lose dozens upon dozens of them, but they have ALL rallied under an aggressive 'ICU' program. (Go figure.) I have a Clint Eastwood Rowdy Red plant with 120!! tomatoes ripening, with loads more blossoms on the plant. The seeds I got from Dr. Male were started earlier, so plenty of Ludmilla's Pink Hearts, Orange Minsk Hearts, Podarok Fei, Trees Bottom Yellow (beautiful tomatoes...absolutely beautiful) and Don Camillos on the way. (Some already processed into salsa...yum!) Quite a recovery underway...weird.

[tnpeppers]

That's interesting...I am north of you (more or less), and I am LOADED with peppers; sweet and hot. Golden Treasure, Marconi Red, Orange/Purple Bells, King of the North, Wisconsin Lakes...all producing like mad. (I grow them in 3-gallon pots, however.) Growing in 10-gallon 'Smart Pots' are the hot ones...Bhut Jolokia, Bhut Jolokia Peach, Naga Morich, Yellow Devil's Tongue, Trinidad Scorpion, and Trinidad Scorpion Moruga...absolutely LOADED! There will be a hot time in 'salsatown' real soon...

[SharonRossy]

Ate my first Bloody Butcher today and was actually surprised at how good it was. I figured it would be so-so being the first one, but it was good. However, still waiting........
My cucumbers are doing well and eggplants also. But the tomatoes are slooowwww.....

[JRinPA]

We have a mostly green fruit yet but just started some blushing a few days back on both early girls and big beef. Plants went in June 1st. I wanted an earlier start this year but there was some mid-May frost threats. I think it worked out fine. They took of like a bat immediately after trenching them in.