why won't my tomatoes turn red? Even after I picked them and put them in a paper bag?

Remove any stems without blooms. When the plant gets that big the sunlight cannot get to the tomatoes to ripen them. If you do this, you'll thin out the unnecessary foliage, opening up the plant to the sunlight. Soon you will have your tomatoes~

You're really not supposed to pick the tomatoes until they're ready on the vine.

If you pick them before, as you said, they might not turn red, and also, you don't get the full flavour of the tomato as you do when it's ready on the vine.

In the future I suggest leaving them on the plant and just wait for them to change colour, they'll start off an ugly shade of orange but they'll be really red and ripe after about a week of changing colour.

I don't know how you get them to turn red now, but you could try putting them with some already ripened veg, it works with bananas anyway.

Good luck!

i would first like to point out i have heard that if you pick them even when green they can be picked to turn red. they really will once they are orange they don't get any better in taste than the natural flavor.

2nd if they are firm and not rock hard close to frost season. then pick them and find good tomato recipes

here's a few recipes with green tomatoes

http://www.ehow.com/how_5249236_make-green-tomato-...

or even canned green tomatoes

http://www.ehow.com/how_4897971_preserve-tomatoes-...

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What variety did you plant? Some types are naturally pink and never turn red