# \#tomatoes **URL:** https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/tag/tomatoes/5.md [Latest](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/latest.md) · [Categories](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/categories.md) · [Tags](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/tags.md) --- ## [My garden, my chicken coop, my efforts](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/my-garden-my-chicken-coop-my-efforts/3566)
**Author:** [@MamaRachael](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/MamaRachael)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/my-garden-my-chicken-coop-my-efforts/3566 "2026-09-23T21:44:23Z")
Hello all, I thought I’d pop on and give my gardening update. I realized last week that though I love the idea of just putting out seeds and see what they produce, I love gardening, I love getting in the dirt, I love the… --- ## [Curing/ripening/rotting tomatoes for seed](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/curing-ripening-rotting-tomatoes-for-seed/4957)
**Author:** [@malterod](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/malterod)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/curing-ripening-rotting-tomatoes-for-seed/4957 "2026-08-28T01:10:36Z")
After listening to Matthew Gammett talking about his way of letting his potato fruits ripen in a box for months until they’re basically rotting until he processes the seeds, I wonder whether the same could be done for to… --- ## [Black currant tomato?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/black-currant-tomato/4952)
**Author:** [@pib](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/pib)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/black-currant-tomato/4952 "2026-08-18T19:56:40Z")
Has anyone seen something like this before? A single fruit from one of my red currant tomato plants is black (very dark purple?). It’s also one of the smallest seemingly ripe fruits from the plant. --- ## [Possible Promiscous Tomato Flower?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/possible-promiscous-tomato-flower/3640)
**Author:** [@LarimarHomestead](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/LarimarHomestead)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/possible-promiscous-tomato-flower/3640 "2026-08-10T17:55:41Z")
Hi there all. I am not sure what we have tomato flowerwise. I think that we have possible Promiscous Tomato Flowers? The tomato flowers are a cross between Genuwine x Beefsteak tomato plants. All of these photos were t… --- ## [Landraces Garden in Switzerland 2026](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/landraces-garden-in-switzerland-2026/4688)
**Author:** [@Laura](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Laura)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/landraces-garden-in-switzerland-2026/4688 "2026-08-09T16:14:00Z")
I plan to document my whole garden in here and just crosspost the relevant info to the Focus crops threads. This year I have the following main landrace projects, the project that are also a focus crop are bolded: Con… --- ## [What tomato disease is this?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-tomato-disease-is-this/4944)
**Author:** [@malterod](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/malterod)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-tomato-disease-is-this/4944 "2026-08-06T01:54:11Z")
I am culling tomato plants for diseases. What tomato disease is this? I first thought blossom end rot, but the holes and brown spots are not at the blossom end. This is another plant with damaged leaves. Mostly olde… --- ## [Direct sown tomatoes in southern Finland 2025](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/direct-sown-tomatoes-in-southern-finland-2025/3962)
**Author:** [@JesseI](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/JesseI)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/direct-sown-tomatoes-in-southern-finland-2025/3962 "2025-10-06T06:28:03Z")
Sowed my domestic tomatoes as well as pimpinellifolium and cheesmanie crosses on 22.5 on bare ground with small patch of peppers just to see how much there is to go before it’s viable to direct sow them this way. The… --- ## [All Devon's Mad Garden Experiments](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/all-devons-mad-garden-experiments/2035)
**Author:** [@devonaviola](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/devonaviola)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/all-devons-mad-garden-experiments/2035 "2025-08-14T20:29:25Z")
Hi all! My intention with this thread is to make a journal of sorts where I will post descriptions and pictures of all my landrace experiments in one place. This is probably the only way I can keep organized enough to s… --- ## [S.lycopersicum x s.habrochaites F2 early trait selection](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/s-lycopersicum-x-s-habrochaites-f2-early-trait-selection/4039)
**Author:** [@JesseI](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/JesseI)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/s-lycopersicum-x-s-habrochaites-f2-early-trait-selection/4039 "2025-07-01T13:07:57Z")
Anyone has experience on how clear habrochaites type traits in s.lycopersicum x s.habrochaites F2s early growth translate in later traits, more importantly fruits, and is there hope for better in F3s or is it a dead end?… --- ## [GMO Purple Tomato by Norfolk LANDRACE](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/gmo-purple-tomato-by-norfolk-landrace/1657)
**Author:** [@VeggieSavage](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/VeggieSavage)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/gmo-purple-tomato-by-norfolk-landrace/1657 "2025-06-04T19:16:12Z")
Norfolk has recently made a Fully Purple Tomato! They said it should be hitting Grocery Stores in 2023? Has anybody managed to find the fruits in stores yet? Has anyone managed to get seeds? Can we put them into the … --- ## [Any update on tomato fermintation experiments](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/any-update-on-tomato-fermintation-experiments/3527)
**Author:** [@Gossrock](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Gossrock)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/any-update-on-tomato-fermintation-experiments/3527 "2025-02-18T14:35:21Z")
I’m working my way through the “How Microbes Help Local Adaptation” course and in the lesson “Seed Care: Post Harvest Maturation” James White says: “The fermintation process is not a good process because it gets rid of a… --- ## [Are Fish Bone Fibers in Tomato Cores Normal?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/are-fish-bone-fibers-in-tomato-cores-normal/3315)
**Author:** [@VeggieSavage](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/VeggieSavage)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/are-fish-bone-fibers-in-tomato-cores-normal/3315 "2024-12-31T00:34:43Z")
I bought Yellow & Red Beefsteak Tomatoes from the Grocery Store & found Fish Bone like Fibers inside the fruit. Is this normal for Beefsteak (I never noticed it in Cherry or Roma Plum types)? I only found them in the cor… --- ## [A question about the toxicity of the wild tomatoes, particularly S. pennellii](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/a-question-about-the-toxicity-of-the-wild-tomatoes-particularly-s-pennellii/979)
**Author:** [@MalcolmS](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/MalcolmS)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/a-question-about-the-toxicity-of-the-wild-tomatoes-particularly-s-pennellii/979 "2024-12-15T14:28:31Z")
On various forums around the web, I’ve been watching as @Joseph\_Lofthouse and other collaborators grow out various crosses between domestic tomatoes and various wild species. In fact, I’ve participated to a small degree;… --- ## [Solanum pollinators](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/solanum-pollinators/242)
**Author:** [@Greenstorm](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Greenstorm)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/solanum-pollinators/242 "2024-11-26T04:26:47Z")
I thought a lot about solanum pollinators last year. What started it was, I had a ton of solanum peruvianum planted. They flowered prolifically all summer but not a single one set fruit. They were gorgeous plants! But I… --- ## [Direct sown tomatoes and tomatillos in southern Finland](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/direct-sown-tomatoes-and-tomatillos-in-southern-finland/2550)
**Author:** [@JesseI](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/JesseI)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/direct-sown-tomatoes-and-tomatillos-in-southern-finland/2550 "2024-09-27T15:37:04Z")
I direct sowed tomatoes and tomatillos now a few days ago (24.5). Tomatoes are mostly crosses I made with last year’s direct-sown F2s or F1s that I recrossed last year. So there is quite a variety of varieties in the cro… --- ## [Jens General Garden Notes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/jens-general-garden-notes/2915)
**Author:** [@jens](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/jens)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/jens-general-garden-notes/2915 "2024-09-08T18:57:45Z")
I could post so many pics of the gardens as they’ve grown this season, but I’ll start with orientation then move to fun things hubs has been harvesting. Side note: I planted so many seeds this winter with the intention … --- ## [GTS Tomatoes + Others - Jen's Grow Out Notes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/gts-tomatoes-others-jens-grow-out-notes/2910)
**Author:** [@jens](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/jens)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/gts-tomatoes-others-jens-grow-out-notes/2910 "2024-09-07T21:22:18Z")
Seeded at the beginning of April, here we go: April 4-9-24 David’s Heirloom Sauce toms: Exerted: Pure promiscuous: – 4-12-24 Sauce: Early Reds: Exerted: Pure Promiscuous: Da… --- ## [Cool/short tomatoes leaning to greens and blacks](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/cool-short-tomatoes-leaning-to-greens-and-blacks/117)
**Author:** [@Greenstorm](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Greenstorm)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/cool-short-tomatoes-leaning-to-greens-and-blacks/117 "2024-05-27T02:42:57Z")
2022-04-05T07:00:00Z (UTC) I’m not sure that I’m into true landrace territory yet, but I’ll get there. Last year I did a variety trial of the following tomatoes in order to find ones that would ripen in my climate and … --- ## [Promiscuous tomatoes in the UK?](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/promiscuous-tomatoes-in-the-uk/2422)
**Author:** [@Pog](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Pog)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 21, 2024, 6:54am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/promiscuous-tomatoes-in-the-uk/2422 "2024-05-21T06:54:31Z")
Does anyone have any promiscuous tomato seeds in the uk that they could send me? I would love to try to grow some of these, especially some small cherry types that might do well in cold wet short season southern Scotland… --- ## [Grexes, Landraces, Hybrids, Oh My!](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/grexes-landraces-hybrids-oh-my/2477)
**Author:** [@destiny](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/destiny)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/grexes-landraces-hybrids-oh-my/2477 "2024-05-13T19:09:45Z")
I was inspired to post my “experiment garden” by @rylan’s post earlier. I too love seeing what others are up to in their gardens. 1. Tomatoes This year I tried interplanting a variety of flowers with my tomatoes to at… --- ## [Shortest Season Tomatoes and a Solanum pimpinillifolium connection](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/shortest-season-tomatoes-and-a-solanum-pimpinillifolium-connection/664)
**Author:** [@WilliamGrowsTomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/WilliamGrowsTomatoes)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/shortest-season-tomatoes-and-a-solanum-pimpinillifolium-connection/664 "2024-04-06T23:08:59Z")
Dating from 1934 here is one of the oldest varieties of early tomato I know of. I haven’t grown it previously but what they say about it puts it amongst the earliest. It was bred by crossing Bison with a currant tomato… --- ## [Tomato Grow Out Possibility for Going to Seed?!](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/tomato-grow-out-possibility-for-going-to-seed/1036)
**Author:** [@WilliamGrowsTomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/WilliamGrowsTomatoes)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/tomato-grow-out-possibility-for-going-to-seed/1036 "2024-03-16T00:04:00Z")
Following the data a recent failure is also an opportunity to redo my 2023 tomato gardening / breeding plans. Which frees up at least one isolation block- probably two. Joseph’s tomato breeding projects are foundational… --- ## [Deleted](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/deleted/1725)
**Author:** [@MarkReed](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/MarkReed)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2023, 4:15am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/deleted/1725 "2023-12-19T04:15:42Z")
deleted --- ## [Blight Trials for William's Tomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/blight-trials-for-williams-tomatoes/1638)
**Author:** [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/blight-trials-for-williams-tomatoes/1638 "2023-11-10T18:24:19Z")
@WilliamGrowsTomatoes I made a little slide show with notes of the tomatoes you sent me. Let me know if you want any more info or tasting notes on any of these. I’ve enjoyed watching them and found 2 winners for this cli… --- ## [Hydroponic Growing](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/hydroponic-growing/1341)
**Author:** [@Pog](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Pog)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/hydroponic-growing/1341 "2023-11-06T17:50:17Z")
I’m just re-reading the brutal first year thread and realise that you are doing amazing things with tomatoes. Wow. And Kratky too. I experimented with Kratky for a while and didn’t have much success with it. --- ## [Small scale tomato seed processing - question](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/small-scale-tomato-seed-processing-question/1128)
**Author:** [@Justin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Justin)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/small-scale-tomato-seed-processing-question/1128 "2023-09-08T10:21:47Z")
Do you guys all prepare tomato seeds only by the fermentation method? For single tomatoes from crossed flowers, I’m wondering if it’s ok to just wipe the jelly off the seeds then rinse them in water? I seem to be able to… --- ## [Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) Breeding](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/tomato-brown-rugose-fruit-virus-tobrfv-breeding/458)
**Author:** [@WilliamGrowsTomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/WilliamGrowsTomatoes)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/tomato-brown-rugose-fruit-virus-tobrfv-breeding/458 "2023-07-31T04:59:39Z")
https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/crops/tomatoes/tomato-brown-rugose-fruit-virus/ So in 2022 one of my sub-projects was to breed in some resistance to the ToBRFV virus a new virus rapidly spreading worldwide for which … --- ## [Tomato size](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/tomato-size/1212)
**Author:** [@Justin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Justin)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/tomato-size/1212 "2023-06-14T16:04:31Z")
Harvested 2 tomatoes yesterday :slight\_smile: Hard to tell them apart! --- ## [What I have been up to with soybeans rice yuzu and tomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-i-have-been-up-to-with-soybeans-rice-yuzu-and-tomatoes/714)
**Author:** [@Justin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Justin)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/what-i-have-been-up-to-with-soybeans-rice-yuzu-and-tomatoes/714 "2023-06-14T12:33:14Z")
Hi everyone, I’ve been away from the forum for a while, sorry for not responding to anyone over that time! And nearly caught up on notifications now… So, what have I been up to? Well, eager to landrace, I didn’t want to … --- ## [Manually crossing tomatoes](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/manually-crossing-tomatoes/1074)
**Author:** [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/manually-crossing-tomatoes/1074 "2023-06-12T02:16:43Z")
Last year I did a manual cross of a ‘golden currant’ (which looked like a yellow cherry tomato, size of berry and leaf shape, wasn’t phenotypically a pimpinellifolium), and a brandywine pollen donor. A few weeks ago I … [Next page](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/tag/tomatoes/5.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=tomatoes)