Backyard Aquaponics
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So... UT, did the paper bag trick work? My tomatoes are taking long to ripen and I'm looking for ways of getting them to finish up before something bad happens like worms or mice eating them.

BTW, I have good flowering and fruiting, is there any mineral or other that will speed up ripening? Does this depend on the ratios of NPK at all?

Combine idea #1 with idea #2,,,in a paper-bag with a banana,,,,I use thisto hurry along Avocado ripening.

I just chuck a load one layer deep in an empty seed tray, cover it with 2 pages of newspaper and leave it on a shelf in the draughty shed. They change colour gradually over several days, ripen inside and go soft.
Don`t put them on a sunny windowsill as the outside will turn red but the inside will be green, bullet hard and taste foul

An apple will give off ethylene gas to ripen tomatoes.

Once they are picked we put them in a fruit basket untill they change. My cherry ones I got sick of eating so I let the bush go. Trimmed it off the other day, 40 or so tomatos for the compost. Used to through them into the top of pot plants until my other half wanted to know why grass was growing in her pot plants. Ever see four hundred cherry tomato seedlings growing one pot plant. Not allowed to do that anymore. So I think these ones are chilli's.

We have tons of cherry and grape tomatoes and then the come off the vine before being fully ripe, we either just leave them on the grow bed for a few days or put em in a bowl on the counter. I suppose if you want to give em dark, throw a dish towel over them. If you need the help of other fruit, and apple will work. We actually have not had the problem of fruit not ripening here though. I'm sure it can be temp related though.