Estler's Mortgage Lifter

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Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:56 pm

EdieJ wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:55 am
Ginger2778 wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:13 am Which seeds did I get?
The ones I sent you were from 2011, the last year my Uncle Bob personally saved seed. So they came from the family farm. My 2018 saved seed were grown from that batch of seed also. Just one generation out.
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Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:57 pm

Good luck George! I hope the plants are ok.
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Tue Sep 08, 2020 2:04 pm

pondgardner wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:23 pm Picked as many EML's that I could that were showing some color... I am going to try to cover the plants to minimize the cold.
I've always thought seeds should be taken from overipe tomatoes. Will those tomatoes give seeds able to germinate ?

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Tue Sep 08, 2020 3:00 pm

Good luck George; I hope the weather holds out for you and you are successful covering your plants and get the next 6 weeks.

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Tue Sep 08, 2020 3:35 pm

[mention]Ginger2778[/mention] [mention]Barb_FL[/mention] Thanks, with any luck, it will stay rain and not get too cold. I have plenty of picked jalapeños and almost ripe habanero's which would like a few tomatoes to continue canning and fresh eating.

[mention]loulac[/mention] I picked the tomatoes before they were fully mature to allow them to ripen in the garage, away from the forecast freeze. No plans to save any seeds from those.
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter, that tells what kind of life you have lived.

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Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:08 pm

loulac wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 2:04 pm
pondgardner wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:23 pm Picked as many EML's that I could that were showing some color... I am going to try to cover the plants to minimize the cold.
I've always thought seeds should be taken from overipe tomatoes. Will those tomatoes give seeds able to germinate ?
As long as he lets the tomato ripen fully, the seeds will be fine. I do it all the time.☺
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Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:10 pm

[mention]pondgardner[/mention] I sure hate to hear that. Happened to us last year, but not quite this early. They'd said it was going to to get "chilly" but not cold so we covered everything with sheets against frost. Doesn't help much when the overnight temp gets to 28°😠 I hope you are able to save at least some of your crops.
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Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:09 am

Ginger2778 wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:08 pm As long as he lets the tomato ripen fully, the seeds will be fine. I do it all the time.☺
I’m relieved to hear this. Every year I hesitated to keep seeds from very late varieties that couldn’t fully ripen before the coming of first colds.
I’ll take the liberty of going off line a bit : when I tried sowing seeds from tomatoes heavily hit by late blight it was a complete failure, I swore I would never do the same mistake again.

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Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:28 pm

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Last of the EML for this year. Three months of solid picking.

Seed being sent to Tormato's swap and just mailed some out to Edie.
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