Small scale tomato seed processing - question

Sorry, i wasn’t clear in what I meant, sticking to the plate was my worry!
I have totally planted them with bits of paper towel and they didn’t complain :laughing:

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So I found what I assume to be a mutation on one branch of a plant in the roma tomato patch at the CSA farmahare U-pick garden and was trying to save the seeds to see what it would grow. Huge tomato, not mane seeds (true to the plum/roma style) i put them in water outside to ferment, just two days and look! A bunch of them sprouted (look at the rim of the plate) :frowning: is there any way I can plant them in little space and keep them alive through winter? Worried that the other seeds perhaps started to sprout too and now that they are dry won’t be viable…
Still can’t believe they sprouted in such a short time… at least they are the cleanest tomato seeds i have

Simone,
Have you considered cutting off a “sucker” from that branch and rooting it, keeping it indoors in the winter?

Maarten

They want to ferment in their juice. Too much water was likely the cause.

If they have enough light. A small but good LED marijuana light is probably your best bet, could get one second hand. Like Spider farmer or whatever - but avoid cheap rubbish from Amazon. Something that marijuana people say is good, should be good. I mean also a big expensive one would do too! You just need strong enough light that can cover sufficient area. Specifically avoid ‘blurple’ cheap rubbish. Or one cheap generic option is Barrina T5 6500K shop lights, and cut off the plastic light defuser if you want higher efficiency but do so at your own risk. No need for their specific ‘plant’ lights. Here’s an example:

In that video he removed the end plastic parts and then used a razor. I didn’t. I just used a saw to cut through the end parts (carefully!) then a kitchen knife to cut off the diffusers. I have those in one area and I made a top grade ultra efficient system for another area.

You need the plants close enough to lights. You want them to move up as the plants grow. You probably want to top them so they grow outwards instead of up too high, at some stage. And you want to keep pruning them so you don’t get too many suckers but some are ok. You could have fruits in … like … well ready for planting for next season anyway. So you could plant out the plants you grow plus their offspring, next season.

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