Topic: Tomato seed trial

[Eristic]

I have saved seeds from the one and only tomato plant to survive the entire summer, such as it was. Like many others here, my tomatoes were ruined by blight, all that is except one plant. This plant was given to me from Bulgarian seedstock and maybe its a fluke or maybe it has genuine resistance to blight. While all the other plants keeled over in rapid succession, this one developed all fruit to full size and maturity, lasting until the middle of Oct.

I would like to run some tests on these saved seeds to see if this plant does have blight resistance and require guinea piglets to assist. Anyone participating must be prepared to harvest some seeds from the best plants left standing and return them to me for redistribution again the following year. So if you are willing to participate, monitor progress, and harvest some seed please send me a pm. This is not a seed swap per se but an experiment hopfully for the eventual betterment of us all.

The plant itself is a vine type to be grown up a cane or string and is well suited to outdoor growing, at least in the south. The fruit is red coloured, normal sized and of plum type, best suited for cooking but a good general purpose tom.

[Biscombe]

Do you want savers from Spain, or just the UK?

[Eristic]

Everyone is welcome until I run out of seeds.

[Rob08]

Please count me in if that is ok.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Yes, I'm interested.

[debster]

yep me too Im in the south

[star]

I'll be glad to help too....have pm'd you

[ruud]

Hi,i am willing to help you from the other side of the pond.

[OllieC]

Count me in!

[saddad]

I'll give it a go in the sunny Midlands!
 ;D

[silverbirch]

Certainly interested.  Blight was terrible here this year.  I "harvested" 4 tomatoes from 9 plants.

Now, how to work out a PM.  Where's my son?

[bupster]

I'd also be more than happy to give this a go. Would you be able to post some guides to seed saving? I know that Real Seeds are pretty good at this...

[ruud]

Send you a p.m. eristic.

[tricia]

Have pm'd you Eristic - would be glad to join in.

Tricia

[Robert_Brenchley]

What's the variety?

[Eristic]

There are probably enough seeds for between 6 - 10 more packs at 20 seeds each but I won't know for sure until I bag them all up.

What's the variety?

I asked the lady that gave me the plant that question and she said 'Red one, plum'. The seeds came from commercial packets and I'm sure the producers would have variety name, strain no, batch no etc. but the purchasers seem to simply look at the picture on the packet.

It has already occured to me that they might be f1 but given the limited range that seems to be on offer I doubt it. Anyway, this experiment is not aimed at producing a show stopper salad tomato but looking to produce a plant that does not collapse in a rotten heap after only one or two fruit have set.

Would you be able to post some guides to seed saving?

First we get the fruit.

[Biscombe]

You've had quite a response, With only a few packs,  If you want to miss me out and keep it in the UK (blight not a big issue here in Spain) I don't mind, good luck with the experiment

[tricia]

I won't need more than 10 seeds Eristic - so that makes another bag of 10 for someone else.

Tricia

[cleo]

Good luck everyone. I`d love to join in but I`m already over booked with old faves and newbies I want to trial in my small way. So many good varieties so little space :'(

[flowerlady]

I'd like to give it a go ... and like tricia won't need too many ... will pm you.