[A Reyt Tayty]

A couple of days ago, I saved some tigrella seed for next year. I like to save my own as it is very little bother and I can save seed from the best fruits, hopefully passing the "niceness" on to it's progeny. I gave them a nice swirl about just now and took the top off the the container they are in. It smelled exactly like cream of tomato soup. Luvverly.

[Kleftiwallah]

I just picks 'em out of the chosen fruit and space them out on a bit of kitchen paper.  Left all year on top of the herb/spice shelf cutting them up just prior to planting.  Had no trouble yet.

Don't you find 'Tigrella' are prone to splitting ?

Cheers,   Tony.

[A Reyt Tayty]

I just picks 'em out of the chosen fruit and space them out on a bit of kitchen paper.  Left all year on top of the herb/spice shelf cutting them up just prior to planting.  Had no trouble yet.

Don't you find 'Tigrella' are prone to splitting ?

Cheers,   Tony.

I've had quite a few split, but the majority are ok.

[A Reyt Tayty]

I spoke too soon. A great many of my Tigrells are splitting. They are getting the same watering regime as my other toms which aren't splitting so I reckon they must be prone to it. Never mind, they will freeze ok.

[Headgardener22]

Have you kept seed before? Did it run true?

I kept the seed from a yellow cherry variety that I liked but they've all grown red so I guess it must have crossed with something else in the greenhouse. 

[mumofstig]

Did you grow your plants from hybrid/f1 seed? as they will very very rarely grow to be the same as their parents.

You need to buy varieties that don't say f1 if you want to save seeds

Most of the old varieties breed true from seed 

[Headgardener22]

No, they weren't F1.

I got them from an American site that only sells Heritage/Heirloom tomato seeds and he doesn't have any more.

[mumofstig]

That's unusual, cos they usually self pollinate, although of course they can cross - and also sad 

[Headgardener22]

Yep and the problem is I took seed from three or four different tomatoes (because it was the first time I had done it and I didn't know if they'd germinate) so I suppose there's a chance that some of them might have self fertilised but I only grew a couple of plants because I like to grow lots of different sorts.

I suppose I'm going to have to grow more next year to find out if any grow true.