In this video, I explain what happens and why growing tomatoes from whole tomatoes works and how this can help you have better success in the home garden.
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G'day Everyone, just to let you know that I'm well aware of the "sliced tomato" videos. What I'm addressing in this video is why it works and what happens whether sliced or whole – I went the one step further for effect lol… The best way to grow tomatoes, in my opinion, is from collected seed (also shown in this vid) and then sow them individually because you can space them out easier for less disturbance when pricking out if required later for potting up or thinning out if already in location. Cheers 🙂 http://www.selfsufficientme.com 😉
I think this isnt possible in my country cause the tomatoes when they get imported get treated with a small bit of radiation killing diseases/bacteria.
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Last year I've watched your video and fermented last seeds of my last fav tomato, so I can rewatch your videos and plant it 😀 This week I will plant them into pots <UK> and finger crossed they will grow nicely! Now thanks to this video I know how to start my second best tomatoes! <3 Thank you Mark!
Makes so much sense! Thx
4:01 looks like a mini pineapple
So glad I found this video! I had a beautiful tomato the other month so I thought I'd bury it, water it every so often and forget about it really. Now I have six strong tomato plants and I'm very excited. I don't have a green thumb but I sure am learning a lot from you Mark, thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. As I'm such a novice I didn't note down the variety of the tomato I buried so I don't know if it's a determinate or indeterminate, is there any signs on the seedlings/small plants that would indicate that? Oh and my chilis have started to sprout! Aaaaargh exciting times!
You're the Bob Ross of gardening. Such a pleasant voice and attitude.
I loved this video. I like to know how the germination works and the details of the fermentation (2 weeks). I'll definitely go this way. Far more efficient and economic than constantly buying seedlings or packets. Unless you do it once for a particular variety. Thank you, Mike.
how well did the fruit develop. true to the original tomatoe or not the same
I squeeze fresh tomatoes onto the soil and their seeds sprout like crazy without the aforementioned potential problems.
Thank u for ur hp I'm a beginer
I have more luck with "volunteer" tomato plants sprouting up in the spring than I do trying to save the seeds and start them myself, and I'm in an area with long deep freezes in the winter. Granted, I've never tried fermenting them myself. Still, I'm wondering if the same principles apply to peppers. Like, if I just bury a pepper or two in the fall and hope for them to "spring" up in the spring?
Nature isn't complicated. I have a friend that just take a whole tomato, that went bad. Finds a spot, digs a little hole and smashes it into the ground. Covers and forgets about it. She always has tomatoes. No cages, nothing. She just lets nature do it's thing.
I just remove the snot cover using cloth. Then I paper towel germinate it.
you get tomatoes!
Do you think the old tomato fruit around the seeds also naturally provides fertilizer for the seed to get nutrition to start growing well?
Yup yup, said it on another video, fermenting them in the bowl/glass of water for 2 weeks was so effective. Single cherry tomato, before drying them out half of the seeds had already cracked open and started pushing out after 2 weeks of fermenting. After few days pretty much 100% success rate in a pot of all the seeds from a single cherry tomato.
Well I'd say you'd get tomatoes
Can I say that you are the best at explaining from start to finish. I hated plants and gardening and I didn't understand why people did it but now I know, I love , love gardening now thank you people likecyou.thankyou
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience of growing "Tomatoes from Tomatoes" on "YouTube" channel.
That's made me interested and to end encourage me to give it a try.