Golden Treasure Doesn't Ripen On Vine?

[pdxwindjammer]

I planted a Golden Treasure keeper variety of tomato this year and it is the only plant that never got ripe tomatoes. I know that once you pick them and put them in a cool basement or garage they will eventually ripen so you can eat homegrown tomatoes in the middle of winter.

I just think it is strange that they are still completely green with not a hint of gold on them at all!

Anyone else have experience growing these? I would love to hear what your results were/are.

Thanks!

[edweather]

That is odd. A stupid ? Are you sure they aren't ripe. Maybe they are green tomatoes. Haven't grown them before, but I know that the fruit quality of tomatoes that ripen totally indoors is not that great. I'm trying to get as many as possible to at least start ripening on the vine before I pick them.

[pdxwindjammer]

What do you mean by "a stupid?"

These formed fruit very early. They are meant to turn "golden" eventually but they are rock hard, not a green when ripe variety. They are fairly small, about the size of a plum

I guess I will just put them in a box in my garage in a single layer and see what happens.

My mom grew long keepers when I was a kid. I still remember eating them in December and they were always a heck of a lot better than what the grocery store carried.

[ddsack]

windjammer, I've never grown Golden Treasure so don't know what is expected of them. But one year I grew out some of my own saved seeds from Little Lucky, which are supposed to be a saladette sized bicolor gold. All the fruit stayed an unripe, hard looking white until late in the fall. I finally picked some and cut into them, and they were rather sweet, but had stayed hard walled and crunchy to the touch with no hint of color. I can't imagine what happened, as I had never grown any white tomatoes they could have crossed with.

Maybe some storage type tomatoes are not meant to color up until they are off the vine? I've only grown the original red/pink Long Keeper type, but from what I remember many had colored up in the garden before the end of the season.

[carolyn137]

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Zhiraf

I once grew the one above as received from Earl via Andrey. It colored up OK, not really a bicolor as I remember, just red with some gold stripes as I recall, stayed rock hard and I didn't think much of the taste at all.

I also grew a longkeeper called Red October which I think was offered by Burpee many years ago, and again, it colored up but I didn't think much of the taste at all.

I'm the one who for many years would rush out to the tomato field when first hard frost was predicted and pick everything with a blush and some large greenies as well. Then spend time wrapping them in newspapers, then spend more time sorting through them to get the rotten ones out each week.

All to say that I finally decided there's a season for everything and never did it again. And I also gave up on growing most early varieties many years ago b'c with a week or two more the early midseason ones would be ripe and to me they tasted much better.

[delltraveller]

If it's a long keeper you may only reach the mature green stage during the growing season.

[edweather]

I just meant that I might be asking a stupid question, not you. Thought they might be a green variety, but you have explained that they are not. Peace.

[pdxwindjammer]

Ha ha ha! I was wondering. Thanks for explaning. I didn't take it to mean you were calling me stupid.