G'day Everyone, just to let you know that I'm well aware of the "sliced tomato" videos. What I'm addressing in this video is why it works and what happens whether sliced or whole - I went the one step further for effect lol... The best way to grow tomatoes, in my opinion, is from collected seed (also shown in this vid) and then sow them individually because you can space them out easier for less disturbance when pricking out if required later for potting up or thinning out if already in location. Cheers :) www.selfsufficientme.com ;)
Hi Mark, many experienced farms as yourself have said to ferment tomato seeds for 1-2 weeks; however, I previously found these two articles that stated shorter (24-72h) fermentation led to better germination of tomato seeds than 1-2 week fermentation. I was wondering why you chose 2 weeks, also do your seeds start to root after 2 weeks? Amazing video as always, I have attached the two articles below. www.growveg.com.au/guides/three-ways-to-save-tomato-seeds/ permaculturenews.org/2014/07/08/save-tomato-seeds/
It’s my first video but loving it, thanks Mark! Loved your bio too. Where in Oz are you? I’m a pom but lived over there (NT longest but visited WA SA NSW and QLD and am doing my best to get back!). I remember in Darwin the gardening was incredible, the speed that those plants grow under the Aussie sun blimey, as they say in Blighty. I miss that beautiful Australian light. The sky is such a vivid blue and that fused with so much colour and wildlife makes it the most amazing country. Best people too.
I love your videos. I'm a lifelong gardener so most of this stuff is known to me but your explanations are so good for those wanting to learn. The world needs more gardeners and you are helping with that. Well done.
My Dad was so proud of his tomato plants. He always planted seedlings from green houses. This is a great way to start new plants if you can't buy seedlings. I will definitely be trying your method. Thank you for showing us how to plant tomatoes from tomatoes.
@@judahboyd2107 To HUNT down a specific person? No... but you could genetically modify tomatoes to carry a genetically modified virus that targets someone's specific DNA.. 100% lethal for a specific person
be very carefull with this practice as diseases may turn up easier when they always have some plant material around to 'eat' from. A few of those diseases mean the total end of your tomato plant. Best to keep the rotten tomatoes separate from where your plants will be at least.
For a few years I had a “problem” with volunteer tomatoes. I think my compost was so tomato heavy that they started growing everywhere for a while. It was a bit annoying when they infested flowerbeds and stuff, but I kind of miss that. Survival of the fittest or some thing they certainly tasted the best ever. And I’m a tomato snob.
If you have a sunny window, you could grow a micro dwarf tomato! Then try planting a tomato once you get fruit for infinite little cherries. A 6" pot will do you for the smallest kinds like Micro Tom or Baby.
I love getting to see what's going on below the ground as well as above the ground. It creates such a more holistic picture of what's happening in this process. Super informative video. Thanks!!
It's October and it's warming up (finally!) down here in Melbourne - enjoyed this vid thoroughly and am inspired to get a great crop going!🍅🍅🍅 Thanks and a big 👍!!
This was such amazing video, hope youll do more with basics like this. Honestly these are left without mentioning in most of books/vids, and its so nice to have not only answers, but actually see how it all looks like. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Just wanted to thank you Mark for all the knowledge you provide. Today I pulled my first harvest ever. Radish's, purple top turnips, 2 different kinds of lettuce a few small cherry tomatoes and about 20 green beans. All organic and boy are they tasty. 2 months later I'm finally getting some return and it feels good. Cheers mate.
In my stomping grounds we get late frost so sometimes it will kill the tomato plants all black and wilted,so everyone runs back to get more tomato plants and try again ( stores love it double sales) well I cut them at ground level and put a couple shovel full of dirt on top and watered them and they all grew up big and healthy , also I found a missed watermelon the next spring and it went through a hard freezing winter I cut it open and all the seeds were growing and ready to plant GOD knows his stuff !!!
Hello Mark (Mate)😄 I really appreciate your attitude towards gardening. Thanks for sharing the details of the garden. I also found, if you just smash open and expose the seeds & bury the whole tomato 🍅 in the same container, then separate the seedlings later works as well for same seasons growth.
I've been growing a red robin cherry tomato for a few years. The plant grows as a bush so can be placed in a patio tub and needs no additional support growing lots of tomotos. I pick a few off each plant mid season for seed and spread the seeds onto newspaper to dry out. You can tear into strips and plant still on the paper into trays. I might try the fermentation method as well this year to completely get rid of the seed protection to see if this speeds up growth for next year.
Can I say that you are the best at explaining from start to finish. I hated plants and gardening and I didn't understand why people did it but now I know, I love , love gardening now thank you people likecyou.thankyou
ok giant dad ...troll go back to your other closet the foods are super heated in sealed cans so any organism INCLUDING the bean would be dead and cooked so would not have grown
Thanks, as relative newbie to gardening and sustainability, your videos are great at providing advice and ideas in a way that makes me, smile. Keep up the good work!
it works,i always leave a few on the plant it dies when it gets cold here,tomatoes drop on the ground in spring i plow the plant and ground,tomatoes grow back,i have tomatoes in the same location for yrs from the plant,great video.
Thank you for this video. Thank you for explaining re: fermentation and mold. Good to know for those of us who have several containers of seeds waiting in the refrigerator for The Gardener to clean the seeds.
Love the way you explain everything and manage to keep it simple and with a bit of humour. Wish my teachers were like you. You've got yourself a new subscriber from Wales :)
I did the sliced tomato grow from grocery store tomatoes. Had over 100 plants consisting of Roma, vining, big slicing and cherry tomatoes. Was a wonderful summer harvest😊👍
Hi Mark, I live in an apt in Ho Chi Minh City, so I do not have the land resources available to do what you are able to, sadly. But I really enjoy your videos! Great information and your presentation is fantastic. Great work, man! 👍😊
Hey Mark, I'm 62yrs old and believe it or not my Dad up until about 10yrs ago used the same tomato seeds over and over as from before I was born. The only reason he stopped was after all that time the seeds FINALLY became unviable and just didn't sprout anymore and he couldn't be bothered due to his age !! He grew Grosse Lissie, Beef heart and ox heart, and few others I can't remember right now !! Seeya Rob
I discovered this technique through trial and error, without any errors. Last year I carefully cut open an aromatico cherry tomato (delicious!) and squeezed the contents into a glass, then added some water, swirled it around to remove the slimy stuff, poured away most of the water then patted them dry-ish with a tea towel before planting them. Worked out well. This year I just popped a tomato, squeezed it into a glass, swirled it with water to remove the slimy stuff then just poured the lot over two pots with dimples in the soil and watered them in. Worked perfectly. I also did it in January this time, making sure the pot was warm enough on the windowsill while they germinated, to give them an early start. And I made a diamond pattern trellis out of bamboo that matches the leaded window. So far so good. ☺
Wow, I just threw two rotting tomatoes into my compost after wanting to look up if and how I could use them for seeds. I was in the middle of making dinner, and I’m still at the point of trying to keep my one tomato plant alive in this south Florida summer heat and sun. I’m not there yet for growing from seeds, but this was exactly what I was looking for. Perfectly explained, as always. I just have no confidence, and your videos always help me so much. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I've grown them from seed but with wildly varied results. I have some now, just with their first leaves. Now I have a better idea of how to get more consistent results. Wonderful.
Working with existing tomatoes/compost all the way. I don’t know if it’s the survival of the fittest thing or whatever but the volunteer tomatoes I’ve had without trying to grown have been the best ever.
Growing from fruit makes sense in that it you get a plant that makes delicious food, the likelihood of growing more of that food increases. I'm on my fourth planting of my jalapeno bushes and they are so delicious. Cheers !
I had a volunteer plant come up last year, great to be 8 feet tall, and give me a bumper crop of Roma tomatoes. Since then, if I find a tomato I really like, I just cut a slice out and put it in a pot of soil. I have had beautiful results this way.
Me too....I've been living off volunteers for a few years now and potting some to give away. I'm sure it won't work for all tomatoes, and it does give me a later start, but heck, it's free! I always let a pumpkin fall apart in the winter also and stick the seeds in random places and get surprise pumpkin vines the following year.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience of growing "Tomatoes from Tomatoes" on "RU-vid" channel. That's made me interested and to end encourage me to give it a try.
Just curious, why would you need to start mid season tomato plants? I always plant as early as I can in the spring, and I have fresh vine ripened tomatoes all the way up until winter hits.. In my experience it's easier for a mature plant to set fruit..
Mark Lada in our area tomato plants are finished by end of July due to heat & disease. Starting plants gives an opportunity for more fruit & at least green tomatoes.
@@TheBzybees Guess I'm fortunate and live in a climate that's good for tomatoes.. I normally put my tomatoes outside around the 20th of April.. I start getting early tomatoes by the end of June, and I harvest off the same plants until we get a hard freeze about the 1st of November.. I tie my plants to 12' tall stakes.. It's nothing for them to grow 14'-16' tall during a good year.. This year's not gonna be good for me.. I couldn't put my plants out until the 3rd week of May.. It was just too cold and wet.. I still don't have a ripe tomato yet.. I wish I could post pictures in the comments..
I had a fun and unexpected tomato adventure last summer. I was weeding my side yard a year ago Spring and found a tomato volunteer. I had never grown veg in this part of the yard. I waited and watched it grow huge and lo and behold it was cherry tomatoes. Some bird I suppose decided I needed them. The funny thing is that I'd rather given up growing tomatoes in my yard (ever read the book The $64 Dollar Tomato?) as it was so iffy year to year. I even pulled it up roots and all in the fall and hung in my basement and had tomatoes almost into Nov. True!
If I leave a few tomatoes to rot in the pots they grew in over the winter I get what I call volunteers. Our Winters here are quite cold it might snow a few times we could have snow for a week. I always end up with volunteers popping up in spring. One year I moved into a new house and got a volunteer in my garden. it was a beautiful yellow Roma tomato plant.
I have many tomato plants in my greenhouse all from slicing up two tomatoes, one cherry variety and one large variety, almost every seed germinated and not one took over the rest, I have one I have kept that is about eight to ten plants all together from one thin slice of a cherry tomato!
tomatoes seem to really benefit from a survival of the fittest planting strategy. I've been having some issues with germination rates the last couple years so tried just tossing a bunch of tomato seeds in a shallow tray then picked out and transplanted the strongest ones as they got big enough and all of them are very healthy and vigorous in the garden. I'll likely try this sort of thing more in the future.
I washed about a square mile of windows last night. It looked worse when I was done... there comes a point in every life when you truly discover the things you just suck at doing. I turn prints on glass into long diffused smears.
Back in the 1970s, I worked on a hydroponic tomato greenhouse. The way we'd add new plants would be to take the suckers that sprouted between the fruiting branch and the main branch, stick them in water, and you get roots in about a week. New plants! Little work!
I opened my worm composting bin the other day and there is about 30 plants growing .I had bought 3 packages of tomato seed and planted in pots and couldn't get a plant and in the worm bin nature done it for me
I used to work at a tomato grower they plant the tomatoes in glasfiber mats and put litle tubes in it to send water and nutrients to the plant pretty crazy the plants grow up to 15 meter long
I found from a other you tube site, where slicing Tomatoes, then sandwiching between two layers of soil, it works. Did it with plum Tomatoes, got plants. Trying it with bigger Tomatoes. Let u know.
True. Especially if there's lots of squirrels in the neighborhood to help fertilize the soil. They hit slot of my neighbors yards last year and I ended up with all sorts of different peppers and tomatoes I didn't plant! FYI..those ghost peppers are crazy hot! Friggin squirrels love cubanella peppers too.
Love the way you put things in simple terms that we can all understand. I'm a hopeless gardener but I'm going to keep trying AND watching your videos. Thanks for taking the time to explain how why and where. Letitia.
If I can make a suggestion: The cellular signaling to begin the rotting process is done by an hormone called ethylene. This hormone is released from the stem and makes its way into the fruit. It is than preferable to leave a piece of the stem attached to the fruit when you bury it.
We had a large barrel which we grew tomatoes that for 5 years new plants grew as we left some tomatoes to fall and degrade naturally and regrow the following year.
I fermented some in a zip bag with a damp paper towel and they have grown a bit faster than the ones i fermented in water but i let the ones in water dry for storage so that could be why.
I grow cherry tomatoes in a box garden and of course in the process you loose quite a few of them. Well this year I had a tomato plant pop up at the bottom of the box and concrete driveway. As an experiment I just let it grow and wouldn't you know it, its producing tomatoes! Wish I could share a picture. We are calling it the zombie tomatoe plant! It really is amazing. On a side note I'm constantly pulling groups of baby tomatoe plants like weeds throughout the rest of the garden from last year.
Ideally you would want to use de-chlorinated water in the fermenting process. I have a hunch youre already on tank water so dont have ch in yiur water. Most others have it in their tap water though.
They say tomatos this way might not taste as good as their bought seeds. I observed though as i took seed from tomato and just dryed it on a radiator, they grew like crazy and tastes very good. This year i bought seeds, and actually only s few germinated! So i think next year i will take seeds from tomatos again. I say it was nice to know about the germination inhibitor :)
An easier method is to select the tomato/seeds you desire. Cover the seeds with water let soak, and let the gooey seed covering ferment ( a few days); then, gently rub/scrub any remnants of the goo away, then dry or plant the seeds.
i sundry my tomatoes from previous harvest or from kitchen scraps, then after the tomato skin shrunk and dry, i start to separate the seeds then clean them with no rinse and leave it to dry at a shady place on a paper towel. that way works too, and the germination rate is quite high
My grandmother keeps telling me that in her country (France) and Europe as well, you can no longer grow tomatoes from another tomato fruit bought in a supermarket because most of the varieties are made hybrid in order to prevent you from growing another generation. What's your thought about this issue ? I am not personally concerned as I live in New Caledonia for now.
When I cut the tomatoes into slices, I always find some seeds on the cutting board. I use the seeds to grow tomatoes, and it always works. There is no need to waste anything.
My tomatoes come up by themselves, every spring, later 8n spring, here in Adelaide . They're like weeds lol, just popping up everywhere once the weather warms
