Seeds from supermarket tomatoes

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• BenCotto Posts: 4,718

  15 February

  Cut the tomato and tease out the seeds. Wash or edge off with a knife the mucus-y covering and leave the seeds to dry on a piece of kitchen paper. Pop them in a paper envelope and then label it ‘Tomato B3 Supreme, 2024’

  Rutland, England

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  15 February edited 15 February

  Thanks @BenCotto Will do. Right down to the name😊
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  Done. There's  more than enough. I'll eat the other  one 
  
  

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  15 February

  I dry mine on kitchen roll too.
  I space the seeds on the kitchen roll as if I were sowing them then leave to dry for use the following year.
  
  When I want to sow them, I put compost in a tray, then lay the kitchen roll with seeds on top then cover with a bit more compost then water them.
  If I want to sow them in pots it's easy to cut off a bit with seeds on it and lay that in the pot and cover with a little compost.

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  15 February

  Good plan @Pete.8

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  15 February

  You beat me to it @Pete.8. The first time l did it and it worked,  l was so chuffed 

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• Johnny Crosby Posts: 54

  15 February

  Last year I did this with pomderino toms from Sainsbury's. I just sliced a tomato thinly and put a slice onto the surface of the compost, covered it lightly, and they germinated. The plants eventually grew very tall and fruited moderately. They were a good match to the parent fruit but too demanding of space in my tiny greenhouse. Great fun though. 

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  15 February

  I just do it for fun too. If the tomatoes are a bit different, that's ok by me. I can never remember what the parent was like anyway @Johnny Crosby

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Simone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073

  16 February

  I did a test run with an organic tomato in January just to see how quick the seeds germinate. It took them 4 days. I took them out after that. 
  I have a tomato waiting but will wait until the end of February, and see what weather forecast is for March.
  Just for fun, I tried a chilli too, but it's not really working. The dried chilli seeds germinated after 10 days. No sign of germination so far from the fresh chilli seeds.

  I ♥ my garden.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  16 February edited 16 February

  Re the chilli seeds … sorry if I’m teaching my grandma to suck eggs, but was the chilli ripe?  Green chilli seeds aren’t ripe so are unlikely to germinate. Even chillies sold when green will ripen to reddish or even darker if left to ripen on the plant. 

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• Butterfly66 Posts: 970

  16 February

  I saved seed from some supermarket tomatoes for my crop last year. I didn’t  bother to wait until the tom was squishy and didn’t bother washing the seed. I just squeezed the juice and seeds onto some tissue and let it dry out before popping it into my seed box. They grew really well and were very similar to the original colour wise (they were a dark red/green variety) and the favour was good. Have saved some again for this year

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