I too am interested in promiscious tomatoes and direct seeding them. I have yet to purchase any seeds like that since I just discovered everything about a week ago, but I have ordered long storage tomatoes seeds, dry farming tomato seeds, and cold climate early season tomatoes that i think would be super amazing to cross pollinate all together for one super tomato lol. I binge buy on etsy and now it is paying off for future pollination projects!
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Most of my various tomatoes are still green but had fun watching direct sown tomatoes struggle and grow into my compacted untilled clay soil! Very easily mixed up my terribly labeled plants (won’t do that again!) But plan to save seed from each one if they hopefully ripen and will be contributing plenty to the 2026 GTS seed mix for Canada. Accidentally fermented my san marzano seeds for too long and germinated them all so i am watching the plant for a very slowly colour changing fruit to snag and seed save right away! Didnt know what to do with the germinated seeds so i put them in pots and am debating an attempt to grow tomatoes indoors throughout the winter so i dont feel like i wasted the poor seeds potential. Fun seasonal experiment heheh
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This year I’ll be receiving and sending seeds for the canadian GTS seed mixes. There’s a form ready here for when you are ready to send seeds: Contributing Seeds – Going to Seed
For tomatoes, we will certainly have a mix for the promiscuous types.
Given that I’m interested in direct sown tomatoes (and have seed for that), I wonder if we should do a direct sown seed mix. Or maybe just collaborate on the side. The thing with direct sown tomato projects is that we need more seeds, so there would be fewer seed packets with hundreds of seeds.
I too will be receiving and sending seed as much as I am able! I will be very happy to try out the tomato seed mix.
I am also very interested in direct sown tomatoes and will continue to try that out next year with various seeds, including the ones i will be obtaining from GTS. I will make sure to keep track and take notes, as well as keep a separate seed collection for said plants.
These pictures were taken on September 28, the day I harvested. None were ripe on September 14, so thankfully we had a longer than usual growing season this year.
Some tasted very sour and some were ok. I saved seeds from whatever tasted acceptable to me.
I probably have about as many seeds as I had originally planted. I’ll be planning to direct seed again next year.
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Nice! Thanks for update!
We’ll try to have a tomato seed offering in the canadian seed share this year.
In anyone has extra tomato seeds (promiscuous/panamorous/Q-series/wildlings…) this year we can put them into the canadian seed share program. I’ll be contributing some.
Fill the form here: