Tomatoes you love them so much why not save them for next year so you don't
have to pay the store to get some plants and do it yourself in this video I'm
going to show you how simple it is to save your tomato seeds
okay for you to meet implants we all love Tomatoes I don't know about you but
there's such an especial affinity with tomatoes that I love growing them each
and every year there are so many different varieties of tomato plants out
there then I don't even know how many exist out there there's there's been
countless books on it there's there's there seems to be a movement of tomato
lovers and tomato growers out there one thing I love about Tomatoes is that
there are there's so many different varieties of them out there that that
you can grow as a ton of them and just different varieties each year and you
may never get through your different collections that you have so I I have
myself I have a very large collection of tomato seeds I don't get to grow all of
each year so I will try to grow as many as I can but one of the great things
about tomato seeds is they do last for quite some time I'm not sure if there's
a actual date that I would say but I've had seeds for about ten years and they
have still growing in fact a lot of the plants that I had this year there were
at least 10 years old for some of the seeds and I primarily grew them to make
sure that I could continue growing the seeds and they were also the variety of
tomato plants that I want to grow so I just grabbed a few different ones that
I'm gonna say the seeds for now this one's a black tomato these are kind of
my ugly what I call the other ones that
that I like to use for the seeds they they've grown out and they've fully
matured but they might not be as edible as some of the ones I've already picked
and this one is actually a green Zee but this one's still edible the great thing
about saving the seed from Tomatoes is that you can save the seeds and you can
still eat it because some of the vegetables that you have to save the
seeds for my decimated let's how you get all the seeds out there so that's
another good thing about this and you know I could instill this in the salsa
or just so let me show you let me show you exactly some of the things that I
recommend that you used when you're getting the seeds out before you to help
you get prepared right so here's some of the supplies that I recommend that you
use and you don't have to necessarily use all these particular supplies but
you definitely want to have at the end when the seeds are dried out you want to
have something to store the seeds in I prefer these these Quinn envelopes
they're very inexpensive they are breathable and they also kind of keep
most of the light out and you can write on them as well you can use anything
from plastic ziplock bag or some type of glass container or plastic container
that you're able to do it but you want to ensure that you're writing the name
of the variety on there especially for tomatoes where you have so many
different varieties out there and as you collect them over the years you may have
so many of them so you want to write the name of the variety on there maybe a
little bit of fact like if it's an indeterminate you want to maybe put that
on there the year that you save the seeds and just any other notes that you
think will help you all with it if you're not really
for me with them so that's one thing the other thing you know as a knife and what
I'd like to do is that the stages that that I saved my season I I kind of let
them I guess sit basically in their juice and they they kind of ferment in
there and that kills off a lot of different viruses that that could be
long there so what I use is I just use a simple glass jar if you have some other
container that you want to use and then I do label I make sure I label those as
well because what you have all these jars on you want to make sure you know
which one is which the other thing that I would recommend is also coffee filter
and maybe a paper plate you can also use paper towels or just something because
when you get to that stage of where you're drying out the tomato plants the
tomato seeds you want to ensure that they but they don't stick and sometimes
on the paper towel they do stick if you don't have that it's fine just be aware
that some of the sequins stick and you might have to rub them off as they get a
little bit drier to make sure they don't stick on there all right well let's get
started with it all right so we're gonna I'm gonna save this this black this is a
black tomato this these things are wonderful if you've never had these
before the taste is phenomenal in fact
they most people think that the outside is was black but when you cut this open
and you can see what I'm talking about the inside is much darker that's where
it gets the name from is the inside of it is a little bit almost like dark but
these have a wonderful taste I didn't get a lot of them this year because of
the the weather and I plant these lately there's definitely flower as much
because of the extremely heat that we had in North Carolina this this season
but I did have enough to save the seeds I did have enough to put it myself so
I'm pretty satisfied with what I got and these are these seeds I think these were
actually twelve years old when I planted this plant back in the
spring so what I do is I just cut it open and I just scoop out and I kind of
scrape out as much as I can of the pulp and it's okay if you don't get all the
pulp out of it because I'll show you in the next step what you do for that so
we're going to get in some Tomatoes you'll find that they won't have a lot
of seeds so just be aware of that if you're not really sure then it's it's
bestest at least have a few different ones now the bigger ones are gonna have
a little bit more seeds obviously because they're bigger and then the
cherry tomatoes are gonna have let's see when you're saving these you want to
make sure you have enough in here for what you would grow for the next year
it's always better to have more than you than you need because sometimes the
plants may not germinate the seeds might not germinate having a bit more as kind
of like insurance for you now if you were to you know if this is a one I'm
not really gonna say this one this is gonna go in the compost by what you know
you could just make cells out of this or something if you really wanted to
because you all you need is the stuff on the side so we'll do this other one as
well now you can see it's almost like a black in here but
this is just because it's really over right but as you can see it's really
dark and that's why it's black you know very good taste too so I got for the
most part I got all the seeds out then I pretty much in these to plan the next
step what I would do is I wouldn't want to scoop this up and I want to put this
in this jar right here and I probably should just squeeze it into the jar so
maybe you could do that save this extra step right here I wanted
to show you over the the cutting board anyway it's just because I'm good to see
a little bit more than just be thrown into the jar so you want to get all the
way here this is May as you can in here
now if you're doing more than one plant more than one tomato plant you wanna
make sure they you kind of do this individualist you know getting the seeds
mixed up so as you can see there is a good amount of liquid in there sometimes
you may what what I would do for this one I'm just gonna leave it the way it
is but sometimes you might not have a lot of liquid in there so you might have
to add just a little bit of water in there just so they don't so they don't
stick to the bottom and then what I do is I just cover this up and then I'm
gonna label this I'm gonna label this black tomato
and this will ensure that I don't get these mixed up all right so I'm gonna
label this exact all labels and ready to go so at this point what what I would do
is leave this out in a kind of warm area you can leave it outside for a day or
two but what you're looking for is when you open the jar up it's gonna smell
really bad and usually it only takes a few days if you if you have an indoors
it might take a little bit longer but if you put it outside it's warm out then it
might only take a day or two but you just want to make sure that it's
fermenting and it's it's basically gonna get rid of its killing off all the
different microbes in there so I did you know planning for the video I did have
one that I already did these are my Roma one so I'm gonna show you the next step
at this point but like I said you want to wait a few days before you do this
and the way that you know I know you can't smell it you could smell that you
would know that that was done so at this point what I'm gonna do is I'm going to
fill the jar up with water and what I'm doing is I'm going to be pouring out the
seeds so that if the water becomes clear and some of the seeds are gonna float to
the top or maybe this amount of gook in here's
for the pulp of it and what that is is that the seeds that are floating in the
ones that you don't even want because those are not viable so so what I'll do
is I might fill this up dump off the water fill it up dump out the water
until it's pretty much clear and all they see is is mostly sees at the bottom
so I'll show you what that looks like at that point all right so I've rinsed the
the seeds out a bunch of times I so as I said that you pouring water in here and
then you're just dumping out the water but you want to try to keep the main
seeds down the bottom so you just keep filling it up and eventually it's gonna
all the most of the junk is gonna be out of there all the pulp in there you can
really see it in from the camera but you'll notice that
that the seeds are pretty much cleaned there might be a few little scraps here
and there but at this point what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put this through a
strainer and then I'm gonna put the I'll bring the strainer over and I'll show
you what I do with that step all right as you can see I also I did was I put
them through the strainer and I just rinsed them off a little bit there might
be still a little bit of pulp inside but for the most part these are these are
fairly clean and they're ready to go so at this point I'm gonna put the double
one soon
so I'm gonna dump them on to the paper towels best but right now some of these
seeds are gonna be really small so you got to be careful with getting wall on
here in fact sometimes you need a weed you
just use your finger and rub them on here because they might stick that will
stick to it no like I said some tomato plants are not going to have a lot of
seeds so you want to do your best to get as many of them onto the towel as
possible so that you have a good chance it's always better to have more than
enough seeds than you need you know because it is insurance because
sometimes the seeds don't germinate quite well right so as you can see I
have all the seeds on the paper towel and what I try to do is I try to you
know as best I can I keep them separate because they might be clumped up if they
were kind of they were attached to another piece of the pulp so at this
point what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make sure that I write on my little my
little envelope what type of seeds these are and these are actually Roma cherry
tomatoes these were fantastic Tomatoes they do very very well in my area I
forgot I just grew them the first time this year I had these seeds before I
think over ten years these are my older seeds that I had that I didn't have a
chance to have grown so I wanted to grow them just so I can make sure I get more
seeds and also to just try them out because this is the first time I've had
this one it needs that done fantastic at my heat we had just very crazy weather
this year so I these things order champs I would definitely grow these again next
year I'm going to so I'm so glad that these came out really well so at this
point what you want to do is these are gonna dry for about seven to ten days
maybe a little bit less you know depending on the area they have
everything growing in and then once they're completely dry you want to just
put just put them in the envelope and then store them away in a cool dark
place that is away from moisture basement usually good that's where I put
all my seeds and they're in a container and they're in the basically out of the
light for that so that's really it for for saving tomato seeds I also have a
series of seed saving I'll post a link right above and that is just any I have
different vegetables different herbs all other types of plants that I do save the
seeds for so so if you're curious about what the process is for other seeds you
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