I am hoping we can have multiple gardeners in Canada growing tomatoes with promicuous tendencies this year. That way we could add promisucous tomatoes as an option to our seed sharing program in Canada.
I think the interest is there, we just need to get the genetics from Joseph and William (and others?) and produce more seed on this side of the border.
I also have an interest in direct seeding tomatoes if anyone else is into this. I saved a couple thousand seeds from Joseph’s varieties, and am buying more from William’s work to add to that direct seeding project.
I am also getting GTS seed that I will start indoors because they are valuable.
Anyway, just trying to see who is already planning for tomato projects, and maybe get more people interested!
Sounds great. I might be able to contribute a few. I’m not sure how much planting I can do as we’ll probably be moving. I have some more promiscuous tomato seeds I bought from last year that I can plant in my grow bags
Sounds good Nicole! I think it’s pretty easy to save a few hundred seeds from a few tomatoes; if a few of us can do that we can have a nice offering for 2026!
It’s expensive to ship seeds from the US, but I’m starting to find some canadian suppliers:
This is grown by Roby, who supplied some seeds to the Canadian seed share this year.
Excited I found this so I dont have to ship from EFN. They also have Q-series, wildlings,… This is owned by Manish Kushwaha. Manish has collaborated with Evalisa (Root Cellar Gardens) on watermelon projects. Evalisa is a GTS member and has donated seeds to our seed share. Small world!
That is really cool that they are growing out my Mission Mountain Grex in Ontario! They should rename it though! Also its likely only moderately promiscuous.
I’m planning on direct seeding a 30 foot row this year. I’d love to be able to ripen tomatoes without starting them inside. I only have a limited space available to grow indoors, so any plant that can ripen outdoors from direct seeding is a bonus.
Nice! What kind of tomato seeds will you be sowing?
I think direct seeding is also a nice way to easily trial thousands of seeds. Maybe we can have a canadian direct seeding project happening if more people are into it.
I will be growing some this year. I saved some seed from the 2024 GTS promiscuous tomatoes that I grew last year. This year I got the outcrossing tomatoes from GTS I will be growing both of these close together and all my other regular tomatoes in my other garden. I assume the promiscuous and outcrossing will mix? They can both be considered outcrossing? I should have seed to send in of Whatever they become or I could keep track of which plants are Promiscuous and save there seed for the Canadian seed share
I have a pack of each Q series and mission mountain from efn to plant out this year. I was planning to grow 3/4s of each pack in the greenhouse then add the rest to my field tomato population.
Are you thinking the promiscuous tomatoes should be grown away from regular inbreeding tomatoes in order to contribute seed? I can save seed from the promiscuous plants separately but they will have grown alongside regular heirloom tomatoes.
