Help! why are my tomatoes still green??? its been 3 weeks since they were supermarket size and nothing?

Question

they have not gotten any bigger, 3 weeks ago I had 3 tomatoes like this now I have a total of about 35-40 and they are all full size, green, hard and doing nothing? Why is this? I water every other evening, we live in iowa, the heat is pretty hot some days.

Answer 1

It's the hot weather & your tomato plant's heavy load. Hot temperature has deterred ripening in many areas, probably yours, too?The red color of tomatoes won't form when temperatures are above 85 F.

Sometimes a bumper crop of tomatoes may also be the reason that the tomatoes are having a hard time ripening. Heavy fruit set can work against gardeners. Ripening numerous fruit takes a lot of energy & tends to delay the whole crop turning red.
Picking some of the large green ones will help the other tomatoes left on the vine ripen faster.

Plants that are actively growing & have a lot of vegetation while developing fruit may ripen slowly, also. Holding back on fertilizing helps with this.

Make sure they're getting enough sun. If it's too shady, they won't ripen.

Cooler temperatures will help your fruit to ripen because "the red tomato pigments, lycopene and carotene, are not produced above 85 degrees F nor lycopene below 50 degrees F
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Hot temperature has deterred ripening in many areas, probably yours, too?The red color of tomatoes won't form when temperatures are above 85 F.

Sometimes a bumper crop of tomatoes may also be the reason that the tomatoes are having a hard time ripening. Heavy fruit set can work against gardeners. Ripening numerous fruit takes a lot of energy & tends to delay the whole crop turning red.
Picking some of the large green ones will help the other tomatoes left on the vine ripen faster.

Plants that are actively growing & have a lot of vegetation while developing fruit may ripen slowly. Cutting back on the amount of water, & holding back on fertilizing helps with this.

Make sure they're getting enough sun. If it's too shady, they won't ripen.

Cooler temperatures will help your fruit to ripen because "the red tomato pigments, lycopene and carotene, are not produced above 85 degrees F nor lycopene below 50 degrees F" *.
Good luck! Hope this helped.

Answer 2

here on the east coast we are having the same problem. i was told it's because of the weird weather we've been having. seems like everything has been a little off this season. be patient, they'll turn soon. you could try this- pick one and put it in a brown paper bag. place bag in window sill in house. check on it say when you get home from work. do this for a couple of days and see if the tomatoe turns red.

Answer 3

some never go red. if you got the seeds from tomatoes grown in stores, they've been genetically engineered to never turn red. other varieties just take a long long long time to go red. but don't worry if you're tomatoes are only to be green, because there are so many delicious recipes with green tomatoes!!!!

Answer 4

Sometimes the sun is to hot and doesnt allow it to turn red.

Try this, just pick one about the average supermarket size and put it on a windowsill which gets just some light. It should help, I won't hurt just picking one if you have 40

Answer 5

They'll ripen soon; you just have to be patient. I live in South Dakota, and mine came in last week. I planted several varieties, and that seems to help. Tomatoes love full sunlight. Plant them in the sunniest spot in the yard.

Answer 6

Don't worry they'll change, if you want to speed it up cut back on water they will think its fall.

Answer 7

water them every day make sure tht there are no weeds by the tomato plant and tht buga or animals are eating trust me soon enough theyll turn red soon enough

Answer 8

it takes time