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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
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 ๐
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