The Lazy Tomato Plant
Nature NuggetStoryAnalogy★★★★We don’t actually let the tomatoes go ripe on the vine. You want to, the moment you see those tomatoes turn yellow a little bit you gotta take them off the vine and finish them off on your ripening rack or just in your cool room. The reason why is because the purpose of a plant, by nature, given by God, was to reproduce, to give seeds. And once the plant gives that seed, it kind of becomes lazy.
So if you let all your tomatoes ripen really good on the vine, then what happens is, is that they’re like, I’m kind of done here. And then they become lazy.
But if you keep cutting and if you harvest, they don’t let to get that stage that they’re like, I’m good, I produce enough seed. So basically I keep harvesting my tomatoes as soon they’re a little yellow then I harvest them off and I harvest about 2 sometimes 3 times a week.
Abreu, Adner, “The Art of Growing Greenhouse Tomatoes” (AudioVerse teaching 34843).
The point
A farmer explains that picking tomatoes early prevents the plant from becoming lazy and stopping production. This illustrates the spiritual principle of not becoming complacent but continually pressing forward.