fruit drop?

duajones · July 22, 2007

while looking over my lone plant this morning I found a golf ball size fruit on the ground next to the container. The plant has 12 or 13 fruit set on it now and seems to be doing well, or at least I thought. What could cause the plant to just drop fruit like that?

Duane

duajones · July 25, 2007

It dropped its biggest fruit this afternoon, little smaller than a baseball maybe. I dont understand why its doing that. Anyone?

**mdvpc** · July 25, 2007

Some varieties just drop their fruit when they are ripe or close to ripe. Is the fruit ripe when it drops?

A fellow Texan that loves CC.

duajones · July 26, 2007

I dont think it was ripe but it sure was small

Fert1 · July 26, 2007

And I feel like I have to wrestle the fruit off of my plants. In fact, this afternoon, I had to go back into the house to get some scissors, because I couldn't get the plant to give up the fruit. It was hanging on for all it was worth! I had to get medieval with it.

Just curious, at what point did the break occur? As in did the whole stem fall off or the fruit pull away from the stem? I can't picture it.

duajones · July 31, 2007

The fruit itself just dropped off of the plant leaving the stem. Someone here mentioned the second set of fruit usually is smaller so that may be my situation. How do I tell for sure the fruit is ripe enought to eat? I have 7-10 fruit now that are about baseball size. Wouldnt mind having a couple for dinner tonight if they are indeed ripe.

Read here that they are ripe at almost any stage so I will have a couple tonight

bms44974 · July 31, 2007

My wife bought red grape tomatoes at the grocery store this winter and we've had 4 or 5 voluteers pop out of the compost pile. Two were transplanted into our raised beds and they reliably drop about half of their ripe fruit. What's left ripe on the vine falls off easily when picked. Most leave their stems behind. Their flavor is marginal, at best, but this is by far the most productive plant in the garden (12 to 24 per day for the past two weeks). I can see why commercial growers would like them.

July 22, 2007	#1
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	fruit drop? while looking over my lone plant this morning I found a golf ball size fruit on the ground next to the container. The plant has 12 or 13 fruit set on it now and seems to be doing well, or at least I thought. What could cause the plant to just drop fruit like that? Duane

July 25, 2007	#3
mdvpc Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 4,386	Some varieties just drop their fruit when they are ripe or close to ripe. Is the fruit ripe when it drops? A fellow Texan that loves CC. __________________ Michael

July 26, 2007	#5
Fert1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Upstate SC, Zone 7 Posts: 543	And I feel like I have to wrestle the fruit off of my plants. In fact, this afternoon, I had to go back into the house to get some scissors, because I couldn't get the plant to give up the fruit. It was hanging on for all it was worth! I had to get medieval with it. Just curious, at what point did the break occur? As in did the whole stem fall off or the fruit pull away from the stem? I can't picture it. __________________ Holly

July 31, 2007	#6
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	The fruit itself just dropped off of the plant leaving the stem. Someone here mentioned the second set of fruit usually is smaller so that may be my situation. How do I tell for sure the fruit is ripe enought to eat? I have 7-10 fruit now that are about baseball size. Wouldnt mind having a couple for dinner tonight if they are indeed ripe. Read here that they are ripe at almost any stage so I will have a couple tonight

July 31, 2007	#7
bms44974 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cary, NC, USA Posts: 5	My wife bought red grape tomatoes at the grocery store this winter and we've had 4 or 5 voluteers pop out of the compost pile. Two were transplanted into our raised beds and they reliably drop about half of their ripe fruit. What's left ripe on the vine falls off easily when picked. Most leave their stems behind. Their flavor is marginal, at best, but this is by far the most productive plant in the garden (12 to 24 per day for the past two weeks). I can see why commercial growers would like them.