Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ? If so, how ?

Thanks

KK

"dido22" wrote in message
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Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ? If so, how ?

Thanks

KK

Yes. we have done this this year from last year's seed 'cos they were such
nice toms :-))

Save some seeds from a Tomato, let them dry on a piece of paper towel and
when dry, put them in an envelope. Sow in the normal way :-))

Hope you have the same success as us. (Well her out doors actually)

--
Mike

The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association
www.rneba.org.uk
Luxury Self Catering on the Isle of Wight?
www.shanklinmanormews.co.uk

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:10:27 +0100, "dido22"
wrote:

Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ?

Not if you want to grow true-to-type F1 hybrids.

If you want to grow a specific tomato(es) for taste, cropping,
disease-resistance etc then you must bite the bullet and buy some
seeds. Cross fertilised seeds are unlikely to be useful and more
than likely to be disappointing.




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"®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:10:27 +0100, "dido22"
wrote:

Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ?

Not if you want to grow true-to-type F1 hybrids.

If you want to grow a specific tomato(es) for taste, cropping,
disease-resistance etc then you must bite the bullet and buy some
seeds. Cross fertilised seeds are unlikely to be useful and more
than likely to be disappointing.


Ours are OK :-))))

and we will save seed again :-))

--
Mike

The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association
www.rneba.org.uk
Luxury Self Catering on the Isle of Wight?
www.shanklinmanormews.co.uk

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:11:33 +0100, "'Mike'"
wrote:



"®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:10:27 +0100, "dido22"
wrote:

Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ?

Not if you want to grow true-to-type F1 hybrids.

If you want to grow a specific tomato(es) for taste, cropping,
disease-resistance etc then you must bite the bullet and buy some
seeds. Cross fertilised seeds are unlikely to be useful and more
than likely to be disappointing.


Ours are OK :-))))

and we will save seed again :-))

If at first you don't suck seed, don't admit that you even tried.

--
®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹

dido22 wrote:

Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatoes
& use them for next year' crop ? If so, how ?

Thanks

KK

With tom seeds, you never know what you will get after you left them out
to dry in the warm air. There is a lot of hybrids in the tomato biz but
you might get a good one or a bad one.
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:10:27 +0100, "dido22"
wrote:

Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ? If so, how ?

I've done it for years, but they don't come true, so don't be fussy
what you get.
Sear the seed on a piece of kitchen paper, well spaced out, and let
the paper dry fully, then write the year date and any detail on the
paper.
Next spring, cut out bits of the paper with a seed and plant the
paper, don't try to remove the seed.

All my plants bar one developed blight this year, and they were all
from saved seed. I'm saving seed this year only from the blight-free
plant.
KK


Pam in Bristol

"dido22" wrote in message
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Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ? If so, how ?

Join the HDRA and get free heritage seeds, which go on forever and ever.

Alan

Hi

I grew Ailsa Craig this year

KK


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-08-24 12:10:27 +0100, "dido22" said:

Hi,

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ? If so, how ?

Thanks

KK

Which tomatoes did you grow? Someone will be able to help you with better
advice if you tell us that.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

Is there any point in trying to save some seed from this year's tomatos &
use them for next year' crop ?

Not if you want to grow true-to-type F1 hybrids.
If you want to grow a specific tomato(es) for taste, cropping,
disease-resistance etc then you must bite the bullet and buy some
seeds. Cross fertilised seeds are unlikely to be useful and more
than likely to be disappointing.

While this is generally true, some plants seem to breed more true to
parent than others. According to The Seed Savers Handbook (Jeremy Cherfas,
Michel & Jude Fanton, ISBN 1 899233 01 6)...

"Tomatos are self-pollinating and easy to save. ...
Tomato flowers are perfect, and the male anthers form a tube around the
female stigma. In modern varieties, the stigma does not emerge beyond the
end of the anther tube. In these varieties cross-pollination is
negligible, and breeders of modern tomatoes seperate each row by only 3
metres,..."

Seemingly some older varieties out cross more readily, and bagging of
flower trusses is recommended for those fruit providing the saved seed.

So as long as your toms are not F1s, you have a pretty good chance of the
saved seed being true to type.

My experience tends to confirm this, as I've sown saved seed tomato for
many years and they so far have come pretty true.

cheers
Jim

p.s. this book recommends leaving the fruit to ripen just beyond eating
stage, squeeze out the jelly and seed into a jar - adding a bit of water
if dry. Leave in warmth for 2-3 days for a mat to form on top of seeds,
along with fermentation acting on the sticky gel surrounding the seeds.
After 3 days remove the fungal mat, add water pour thru' a sieve. Wash and
rub seed till clean then dry on china plate or shiny paper.

alan.holmes wrote:


Join the HDRA and get free heritage seeds, which go on forever and ever.

Alan


Good advice.
Another site I find useful is The Real Seed Catalogue.

http://www.realseeds.co.uk/

Theys sell non-F1 type seeds which should come true but there is also a
lot of useful (and specific) information on saving seeds.

Jeff
NE England

I grew the three varieties recommended by Which magazine, a yellow one,
a small one and a beef one.
I had
‘Floridity’ F1 (AGM). Mini plum and ‘Snowberry’Â*. Cherry and
quite honestly I don't think much of either. Of course it might be the
year and the weather but one has a thickish skin and the other isn't
very sweet at all. The beef one is very dry and tastes of nothing much
so all in all i think I'll give some others a try next year!

Our local Van Hage had packets of seeds for only 25p at the checkout
last week so i have bought ferline and some others to try.

Any that you can recommend?

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

If you want to grow a particular tomato (ES) of the of the taste, cut, disease resistance, you must bite the bullet and buy some Seeds. Seeds of cross-fertilization is unlikely to be useful, but Probably disappointing.