Did an experiment with the cherry tomatoes. On the same day, I harvested one cherry tomato that was perfectly ripe, and several that were at the blushing / breaking stage. I put the ripe one into its own container, and the others into another container. The blush tomatoes ripened really quickly, within just a few days. Then did a taste test. Wow! The tomatoes harvested at breaker stage were delicious, very flavourful! Maybe even more so than the one that has harvested ripe, which had also split while sitting in the container waiting for the others to ripen. Very unlike when in the fall I bring in totally green tomatoes to ripen -- those ones are pretty bland and have a weird texture.
So anyway, yes, I will definitely start harvesting tomatoes before they're fully ripened.
Some of the benefits...
- Less splitting on the vine / rotting / flies getting into it
- Less chance of critters getting a taste of ripe tomatoes
- More energy available to send to green tomatoes on the plant
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