If you’ve got some overripe tomatoes that you’re wondering what to do with…save the seeds! In fact, slightly overripe tomatoes are the perfect way to dip your toes into the world of saving seeds by fermentation.
For seeds with a mucilaginous coat, fermentation is a great way to break down the coat and introduce beneficials into your seeds. I hung out with Brijette Romsedt of San Diego Seed Company and had her walk us through the entire process.
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Here is the best reason to do this… these tomatoes grew in YOUR soil, survived under your insect pressure, your rainfall, your weather, your soil chemistry. They grew the biggest of all that made it.
When you save the seeds, you get to keep the largest and best, which have the most stored energy to create the biggest plants.
What happens when you buy seed at Walmart is they take the best seeds and save for themselves. The next best go to big buyers paying premiums. The next go to bulk buyers. The smallest crappiest ones go into seed packets and these are what you buy from garden stores, Walmart, home depot, etc.
Those seeds also possibly grew thousands of miles away, in very different conditions.
Saving seeds is a massive way to gain an edge over the every day gardener.
I would rank saving seeds as the number 1 "cheat code", tied with no-till, and thick mulch.
This is such a great channel, and it teaches so many things that I teach in my videos. I'm really glad I found you guys. Your mushroom video was great, this one also is fantastic.
Didn't know this was a legit named technique. I do this out of intuition, and the practicality of why waste food I can eat for seed when I could just use old fruits! Sometimes I deliberately let the biggest and best fruit rot so my genetics improve
Thanks for sharing, I love doing this!!
Do you store uncovered or with a sealed lid
Awesome tips thank you friend
Very interesting video. Thanks!!
thank you for sharing this informative video. my question now is, do you have to let the seed dry before planting into the ground or seedling tray? or it can be planted fresh?ty
Didn’t realize it was so simple. Thnx
How do you make sure they are true to type for the tomato?
Boom! Enough said. Kevin does it again
Very interesting video. Thanks!!
Hey Kevin I really enjoy your channel. You always have great content. I'd like to share my channel with you and my first video! We are creating an Urban Market Garden this year. We have a small area for a backyard and would like to share our progress this year on creating this project we have in mind. I recently made a video of some indoor plants we are growing. I'd really like for you to check it out.
https://youtu.be/7zOv-PSLGHw
After cleaning the seed. How to you try the seed for storage. How long can you store the seed.
Thx
Hi Kevin,
I received the seeds
Thank you, joe
How long do you let the gunk ferment? Just a few days until it gets the mold on it??? I'm not sure if I missed that on the video…thanks. Great information!!
Todah rabah.
Wow I watch your TikTok and came by this video by accident while looking up fermenting tomato seeds. Glad I've found you here!
I have one beautiful costoluto tomato plant that has completely resisted blight even though all the other plants got it around it. I am saving its seeds now as it seems to have good genetics, thank you for the tip.
Thank you so much for this. I adore your overalls. Could you share where we can buy those?
Can you do this seed fermentation with other seeds?
Mother Nature is awesome? No honey God the creator created those seed characteristics and His Sons name is Jesus.
Wonderful. Can I freeze the seeds for next season?
Hi, do I need to cover the jar during the fermenting process or leave it uncovered?
Can you put a lid on the jar to prevent fruit flies? And, well, a stinky kitchen?
My mate worked at a sewage plant. Tomato seeds survived the whole trip from dump to sludge.
I’d like to confirm I did this right. My tomatoes weren’t very juicy so when I got back to them after the weekend everything was pretty dried out. It did mold up a bit which I think is great, but the seeds are all pretty dark after being cleaned up. I’m thankful I still have a few left in the garden ripening up so definitely going to try again but would love to know a pro opinion on whether the dark seeds will be okay.