Getting seeds from a Tomato plant

[Flummery]

Of course you can Zazen and SBP - if I get anything decent I shall be offering you tasters to report back!

You can still have an F1 variety if you bought it from a garden centre. They sell all sorts. If so, if you sow the seeds you'll get a big assortment of F2s - all potentially new varieties of differing quality. If it's not an F1 - you'll get the same next year as you had this. It's always worth saving tom seeds. They keep for years too.

[smallblueplanet]

Thanks mcsee - daft question, whats organza made of?

[zazen999]

Of course you can Zazen and SBP - if I get anything decent I shall be offering you tasters to report back!

You can still have an F1 variety if you bought it from a garden centre. They sell all sorts. If so, if you sow the seeds you'll get a big assortment of F2s - all potentially new varieties of differing quality. If it's not an F1 - you'll get the same next year as you had this. It's always worth saving tom seeds. They keep for years too.

WAHOO

*doing a dance like Hay Wayne would if he were here and not having lunch with Piskie and Squashy Sue*

[Paulottie]

If you want a late season clone of any good plants you are growing just stick the offshoots-(armpit hairs as we know them) in a glass of water presto roots showing in days.

[New_Bud]

If you want a late season clone of any good plants you are growing just stick the offshoots-(armpit hairs as we know them) in a glass of water presto roots showing in days.

Would I need rooting powder for this? Or will it just aid it? Because I would love to have two tomato plants growing in my growhouse, or my dad will anyway

He just loves tomatoes!

[zazen999]

If you want a late season clone of any good plants you are growing just stick the offshoots-(armpit hairs as we know them) in a glass of water presto roots showing in days.

I just did that - about half an hour ago!.

[Flummery]

You can shove them straight in the soil - I do. I've got a second Black Cherry growing that way. Only sowed one seed! Last year when my neighbour lost all his toms in the floods I took 'armpit cuttings' of some of mine for him.

PS Manda -organza is a silk fabric.

[Paulottie]

Yes, it does easily work strait into soil; but i prefer to avoid flaccid stage(no euphemisms intended)... in water on a shady cill works best for me.

[john c]

Water is the best....I do it every year....10 plants for 50p...lol

[Waffler]

Wow! I never knew that! Is this fairly reliable? Do you still get the same sort of harvest of toms? Is it best to wait until the parent plant reaches a certain stage of maturity (doesn't stop humans though!)?

[Flummery]

They are EXACTLY the same as the parent - leave a side-shoot till it's several inches long then it stands a fighting chence. It seem to be the blokes who are scared of flaccidity! I find it soon stands up again.

[zazen999]

I find it soon stands up again.

Patience is a virtue

[zazen999]

I usually go round nurseries and snap off seed heads on plants to take home 'deadheading' [or my OH's 11 year old thinks I am stealing] - they'll only fall on the ground and be lost anyway. I think I'll upgrade this to 'armpitting' as well.

You guys are the best

P.S. I only deadhead when I see any I like; I don't visit nurseries/Garden Centres with the sole intention of deadheading their plants - honest guv.

[tizzycat]

after nosing round an allotment site last year, I prepared and saved some "sungold" seed and they grew very successfully and were, I thought, 'sungold'; maybe not after all but I have done the same again this year and the plants appear to be doing well, I am now waiting to see what I get - interesting!

[Flummery]

You are doing what I am doing at the moment - 'un-hybridising' and F1 hybrid. Your plants will be entirely new varieties. Good lucjk with them. By doing this you can select and grow on seeds from the ones that are YOUR choice of flavour/size etc, not the seed merchant's.