I want red tomatoes

I have green tomatoes. I'm going to try 3 different techniques to get them ripe.


A friend has said that packing green tomatoes in paper helps them ripe.
A friend has said that bananas have a hormone that helps them ripe.
I think that the sun will help them ripe.

I sorted out 24 tomatoes from a batch. I removed worm-eaten and odd tomatoes.


I  Ranked them in maturity. From left to right, they increase in dark-green-ness.

8 Different sets. 3 tomatoes in each. If I'd only have 1 tomato in each set, it will not be as a certain that it was the enviroment that made it red. I don't know how to explain it...


This is to test all kinds of different ways (in combination). The one without anything, in the second basket, could be seen as control.

Being in paper will block the ray of sun. It might be useless to have this many sets. Especially set

Since the hormones of bananas might travel a bit. I thought that I might get a greater difference if I separate them a bit more. So I moved the non-banans sets into the next room. Both now have an own window. About 3m from each other.

I don't know how fast I will get results.

Hopefully I wont get bananaflies or have to change the bananas to much.



I will continue the experiment at least for 1 month. So Next tomatopost will hopefully be 2016-10-08.
Feel free to comment the science-ability of the project.