Hi Andrew, I sent you an email. Yes, I'm interested. Also, I haven't received an email of your response. So I'm hoping you received mine as well. Seems the email system here gets tangled up or something? Thank you!

Does the fruit have tiny teensy dots on the flesh at all? If so, perhaps and this is only a guess of course, it might could be the piercing of the stink bug. They get on a mato and pierce it relentlessly. A tomato also ripens when its roots are damaged as in also possibly nematode damage. If someone wanted to ripen fruit on a mato plant they could use a shovel and and cut approximately 6 -12 inches out from the trunk of the mato plant and dig straight down to severe the roots. The matos will ripen quickly but of course not to the best of their ability. Yellow leaf curl virus seems to affect in my experience only NEW flowers and growth. Seems that fruit already on its way is unaffected. Sooo If I had to guess, in order, Stink bug fruit damage, then nematodes and then the yellow curl virus. I am guessing what is causing it but cant offer a remedy, sorry.

My favorite green when ripe cherries are Green Doctors, Green Doctors Frosted ( clear epidermis) and Green Zebra Cherry which Gary mentioned above. The latter is not derived from the variety Green Zebra and tastes completely different; I don't like the taste of Green Zebra but very much like the taste of Green Zebra Cherry. I almost forgot that another green when ripe cherry, actually oval shaped, that I like is Verde Claro, which also has a clear epidermis so doesn't develop the amber blush that most green when ripe varieties do develop. I've linked to Tania's T-base below where she features pages for over 3,000 varieties. If the variety name is known it's much easier to scroll down to where you see search via the alphabetical method. For each variety there's usually pictures, comments from others and then scroll way down and seed sources for that variety. As for red cherries there are many many threads here at DG about red cherries that you can find by doing a search at the bottom of the page, so I'll just briefly mention some that I like amongst the many that I've grown. Chadwick's, aka Camp Joy Gardener's Delight, an oldie but great variety Casino Chips http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Category:Cherry_Tomatoes Above is a link from Tania's site with a couple of hundred cherry tomato varieties. Tania herself also sells tomato seed and seed for other crops as well. Hope that helps. Carolyn Here is a link that might be useful: Tania's Tomato Base

Thanks for the info. I am growing the plants in pots and set up a drip sprinker to go off every 6 hours for 2 minutes. Usually I just start to see water coming from the bottom of the pot just as the 2 minutes are up. We have had a good amount of rain in MD, every few days. Is it better to hold up on the water? Most of the toms have not started to crack, one of the first ones did though. Thanks for the advice.