Hang Tom plants upside down in shed for ripening.

[goodolpete]

On Saturday, Saint Monty Of Don recommended:
”hanging the entire plant upside down from a beam in a
shed will help with ripening and improve taste.”
Anyone successfully done this?

[burnie]

Nope. I leave mine on the plant

[Bren In Pots]

I do the same as Burnie. Some of my SAN marzano are taking their time.

[Jungle Jane]

Years ago I uprooted the plants & hung them upside down in our house,they need the warmth. The skins on mine were thick because they really needed sun but they did ripen. Near a sunny window would be good. You can occasionally spray the roots with water if they’re in a good position,mine weren’t so they got no water.

[Vince G]

Nah, leave mine in the ground in the polytunnel. One thing I do do is to take off most of the leave to maximise exposure to the sun, and cut off the top of the plant including any flowers and small trusses of fruit that are only now forming and will never ripen.

[Jungle Jane]

If you pick all the tomatoes that are partially ripened,put them on a plate next to the window they’ll ripen indoors & it’ll give the green ones on the vine a chance to ripen,I don’t have many green tomatoes outside now because of doing this,it really does help.

[Contadino]

When I lived in Italy there was a specific variety of winter tomatoes that people grew that could be cut and hung indoors over winter. Pomodori d'inverno.

My neighbours swore by them but mine always went mouldy.

[MarkPelican]

I've done it with Principe Borghese grown outdoors in a bad summer (or rather when early frosts were forecast) but never bothered with anything grown in the greenhouse.