Sprouting grocery store seeds.

[slugworth]

I am going to attempt to germinate store bought sun dried tomatoes again.
In the 1st episode they were treated with sulphites and never sprouted.
Today I bought organic ones no sulphites so I should have better luck hopefully.

[slugworth]

1 popped up after about 2 weeks indoors under lights.
I see today a few more.
They will be kept indoors under lights in the precious tomato area (laundry room)

[slugworth]

Somebody dropped a small yellow squash in the food store parking lot and it got kicked to the grassy knoll.
I brought it home but the seeds were too immature.
I was so close to free sprouts.

[Tormato]

Somebody dropped a small yellow squash in the food store parking lot and it got kicked to the grassy knoll.
I brought it home but the seeds were too immature.
I was so close to free sprouts.

That squash needs to be tan, warty looking, have a hard shell and be about 18" long, for viable seeds.

[Tormato]

I bought a weirdly shaped red tomato, at WalMart the other day, from that large bin of 1.98/lb tomatoes. It basically looked like half of a heart-shaped tomato, with one side essentially flat, and the other side normally rounded. I thought perhaps it had grown while pressed up against something flat. Was I wrong.

When cut in half, sideways, the inside of the rounded half looked like a normal tomato.

However, the flat half was completely solid, with no locules, gel or seeds. I saved seeds (from the other half), of course.

[slugworth]

I am going to attempt to germinate store bought sun dried tomatoes again.
In the 1st episode they were treated with sulphites and never sprouted.
Today I bought organic ones no sulphites so I should have better luck hopefully.

I guess about 10% germination rate.
They take a LONG time to pop.
3 weeks
At the 1 month stage now under lights.

[slugworth]

One has a triple cotyledon.

[slugworth]

6 weeks since the funeral and the plants are growing in clumps.
I have to buy new potting soil for re-potting in the near future.
Rl,should be interesting to see what they produce later on this year.
I will keep them indoors under lights.

[Paulf]

Second year of growing out the multicolored snacking peppers from grocery store stock. Last year was a nice surprise with lots of red, yellow and orange small, sweet peppers. Each color ripened early and production was acceptable. This year we added Campari tomatoes. Harvested seeds from a Costco sourced tomato. They seem to be very vigorous and look like the grocery store variety. Most likely will be round, red and tasting like cardboard, but what the darn heck.

[Seven Bends]

Second year of growing out the multicolored snacking peppers from grocery store stock. Last year was a nice surprise with lots of red, yellow and orange small, sweet peppers. Each color ripened early and production was acceptable. This year we added Campari tomatoes. Harvested seeds from a Costco sourced tomato. They seem to be very vigorous and look like the grocery store variety. Most likely will be round, red and tasting like cardboard, but what the darn heck.

Did you use seeds directly from the store peppers again this year, or seeds from the peppers you grew last year from the store peppers? I haven't tried the second generation yet to see what happens, still just growing them directly from the store peppers. I eat those store snack peppers all winter, so it's not hard to get new seeds, but I worry that they might change up the varieties in the bags and I won't be able to count on the same results.

Last year I grew two plants from seed from the red peppers and they did great. This year I'm growing two each of red, yellow and orange (plus an extra red).

I saved some Kumato tomato seeds a few weeks ago but I think I'll wait until next year for that experiment.

[Paulf]

Seven: Both last year and this year's seeds were from fresh peppers and replanted. Next year I will try saved seed from this year's crop.

[nightshade]

I have had some luck with pepper seeds but the times I have tried tomato seeds I got unexpected results. The commercial growers must plant hybrid tomatoes so they get consist results - when you plant a seed from a hybrid fruit you never know what you will get.

[worth1]

I have had some luck with pepper seeds but the times I have tried tomato seeds I got unexpected results. The commercial growers must plant hybrid tomatoes so they get consist results - when you plant a seed from a hybrid fruit you never know what you will get.

Yep most of not all tomatoes are a no go when sprouting seeds from the grocery store.

[Seven Bends]

I picked my first Mucci Farms "Sweet to the Point" orange snack pepper on 8/3. I saved the seeds from a grocery store bag of mixed-color snack peppers this winter, planted the seeds on 4/21/24, and transplanted the plants into the garden on 6/10/24. The pepper was sweet and delicious, just like the ones from the store. All the plants (orange, yellow and red) have been vigorous and healthy so far.

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[slugworth]

The store bought organic sun dried tomatoes are starting to form little green tomatoes.
It should be interesting to see what those are like.
I saved a BK whopper slice to start the seeds next year.

[Paulf]

Update on grocery store tomato seeds (Campari); beginning to produce what seems to be identical salad sized, fairly good tasting tomatoes.

And on the multi-colored snacking peppers: These are the most productive pepper I have grown in years and the taste is very sweet and the texture is perfect. I will save some seeds for next year and also select seeds from a bag of peppers we will most likely purchase in the wintertime.

[slugworth]

When I tried Campari years ago they took forever to germinate; like 2 weeks.
They looked the same as the original.

[habitat-gardener]

I'm still growing Chocolate Wild Wonder peppers, which are very productive. I bought a package of long, thin Wild Wonder peppers several years ago and saved seeds from the different colors of peppers separately (red, yellow, orange, brown). I've mostly grown the brown ones, since that color is difficult to find otherwise. (and I can call it Chocolate!)

I assume the seeds I originally saved are F2, and those are the seeds I've been growing for several years. I've also been saving some F3 seeds but haven't tried growing those.

[markz]

A few years ago I got some nice tasting tomatoes in late winter from my local Aldi called Adora.
Since the web site https://naturesweet.com/products/adora/ for the product claimed it was a Spanish heirloom, I saved some seeds.
I've grown them for several years now, and while they aren't always consistent, they are always tasty and productive medium sized slicing tomatoes.

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[slugworth]

I found a blue tomato in Big Y food store heirloom section that I just bought for seed.
6 ounce.
Blue ones are tricky;they need full sun exposure on the fruit to turn blue but then you risk sunscald
or cooking if it is too hot out.
One year I cheated and put old mirrors on the ground under the plants so the bottoms would turn blue also.
The indigo blue beauty tomatoes in the past were smaller.This may be a bigger variety.
They make a good conversation piece when fully ripe.