Re: Saving seeds from Hybrids
Hi,
I have done a lot of seed-saving from cherry tomatoes. The two that come to
mind immediately are yellow pear and sun gold. My results from seed saving
were very good -- the fruit has been perfectly formed and the taste very good.
I have a neighbor who never plants cherry tomatoes and yet has a garden
full of Sun Golds every year, volunteers from some plants someone gave here
some years ago. Her Sun Golds are always wonderful.
When I get volunteers, they are not wonderful, and I wonder if that is
because I planted so many different varieties of cherry and other tomatoes
(a couple of years ago I had nine different varieties of cherry
tomatoes). When I save seed from these varieties, I do it fairly early in
the season and choose the most beautiful, perfect fruit to save.
I think this year I will go back to just Sun Gold and Supersweet 100's.
These have been my favorites for taste. The yellow pear are pretty but
don't seem to have as much flavor (even when grown from store-bought seed
or seedlings).
Pat
Zone 7, Maryland
