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- Drying tomato seeds - this is how you get usable seeds
- Seed-real tomatoes or hybrid varieties?
- Choose a suitable tomato fruit
- Win fresh seeds
- Dry seeds - the two methods
- Dry tomato seeds immediately
- Dry the tomato seeds after a wet fermentation
- Tips
- Keep dry tomato seeds properly
Tomatoes carry many seeds
Drying tomato seeds - this is how you get usable seeds
A ripe tomato has a lot of seeds inside. It could grow new tomato plants in the following year. But the seeds are small and moist, and somehow slimy. For months of storage, they must first be properly dried.
Seed-real tomatoes or hybrid varieties?
Seed-like varieties pass on all the typical characteristics to their offspring.If you've tasted this year's tomatoes, you can easily repeat the taste experience the following year.
Seeds of F1 hybrids are unpredictable in this regard. Sprouted plants develop different properties. Mostly, however, the daughter plants grow worse and are of poorer fruit quality.
Choose a suitable tomato fruit
The supplier of seeds is a healthy and rich tomato plant. Pick the most beautiful tomato fruit, which is also fully ripe. For their own needs, the seed of a tomato should be perfectly adequate.
Win fresh seeds
- Wash the tomato thoroughly and then dry it off with kitchen paper. Divide the tomato in half with a sharp knife. Bring the small seeds out with a spoon.
Dry seeds - the two methods
Wet tomato seeds can be dried in two ways:
In the first method you have the least amount of work with the drying process and the seeds are more durable. However, they retain their germ-inhibiting layer and need time after sowing to break it.
The wet fermentation is somewhat more expensive, but has the advantage that the germination layer is dissolved after the fermentation process. The seeds germinate faster.
Dry tomato seeds immediately
Choose a suitable mat for the tomato seeds. On paper towels, the dry seeds like to stick persistently, from a smooth wooden board, however, they are easier to peel off.
Dry the tomato seeds after a wet fermentation
- Put the seeds in a glass of water and cover with plastic wrap. Once the fermentation process has begun, you must keep an eye on the jar of seeds. After one to two days, the seeds sink to the ground and the next step is due. Pour the mixture into a colander and rinse the seeds under a stream of hard water. Spread the seeds on paper towels or on a coffee filter to dry.
Tips
The time to stop the fermentation process, you recognize that the seeds stuff rough. If drying is not continued immediately, the seeds will soon start to germinate.
Keep dry tomato seeds properly
The dried seeds can be stored in a paper sachet or opaque can in a dry place.
With an ideal room temperature between 2 and 12 degrees Celsius, they can last for five to eight years.