some ripen faster than others, you know they're ripe when a gentle touch can pull them off the stem
nothing wrong with harvesting a few, eating them, and then harvesting more the next day, IMO
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Yeah I harvested 3 cherry toms earlier, these are the orange variety of cherry tomatoes.
You're not wrong there with the eating them part, it tastes so fresh every time, making the wait so worth it!
cherries will ripen as a cluster starting at the most terminal tip, and getting greener up the cluster. It's flowers are arranged in a raceme, which means the most mature flowers are at the tip.
practically speaking, with cherries, I'll usually wait till the tip most one is "very ripe", and usually the middle is perfect and the base is a bit under ripe. but I prefer having that range. alternativly, wait for them all to ripen in the vine
I always imagined they're racing with each other that's why they don't all ripen at the same time 😅
I'm no tomato expert by any means, but tomato's will be in the ripening stage (green to red) for 15-25ish days. they don't all hit at once but they will ripen within that general timeframe.
as for the early ones before a big batch, eat em? nothing you can really do other then leave them on the vine and hope they don't over ripen, or leave em on the counter or something until you have your desired quantity. they might start to go bad if left too long. nothing specifically you can do to stop nature from doing what it does.
Yeah I guess that makes the most sense, I just wanted to know what people's procedure/opinions for these things as I'm still starting out gardening as of a couple of months ago. Thank you.
We get around 3 cherry tomatoes ripening each day so there's that for some context lol, more ripening as we speak.