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Background: While looking for ways to get tomatoes to ripen, the following article was discovered ... RIPENING GREEN TOMATOES (ecoyards.com/ripening-green-tomatoes). The article mentioned covering plants with plastic and mentioned that putting picked fruit in a brown paper bag would help trap ethylene, which the fruit gives off and cause ripening.  Plastic was mentioned for protecting plants from frost, but not for trapping ethylene.

Seven top search results from Google at Sunday 9/25/2016 8:04:59 AM

Successful search for plastic traps ethlyene tomatoes red

Ripening and Harvesting Tomatoes (National Gardening Association)

How to Ripen Picked Tomatoes - Local Foods - About.com

How to Ripen Fruit Faster - GrowVeg.com

Tomatofilter: why won't mine ripen? - tomatoes gardening colorado ...*

Learn What Makes A Tomato Turn Red - Gardening Know How

Harvesting & Storing Tomatoes | Tomato Gardening Guru

Do Tomatoes Ripen After Picking? | Home Guides | SF Gate


*Tomatofilter mentions that plastic traps moisture and increases the chance of mold