So far these seeds have taken off and grown the best out of all I planted. If I get a good crop off them, can I save some of the seeds from the tomatoes and plant them next year or does it not work like that? I usually just buy plants but I tried seeds this year and I’ve been so happy with what these seeds have done so far 🙂
by bradleyt92
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it’s a hybrid, so no
You can save and use heirloom varieties.
I know a few folk who do plant hybrid derived seeds – mainly for fun though to see what they get. However some people with a lot of patience do try to breed them out over many years by taking the fruit they want (matches the original fruit as close as possible), save seeds, sow them, get more fruit, save what you want and so on. An online mate tried to grow larger sungold tomatoes and another tried to Red Alert – the later with some very odd but rewarding results but nothing like the original.
You can try whatever you want 🙂 Maybe they will volunteer to grow themselves next year.
I have a couple Baby Boomer plants growing, with lots of fruit on the vine. NE Texas, 8a. It’s known to be a prolific variety. (I won’t be saving the seeds, but I will probably buy another pack of them next winter.)
Since you are new to growing your own, I encourage you to try growing a few varieties next year. It is fun and, eventually, tasty. You get to enjoy the anticipation when seed shopping, too!
Well, I’m going to contradict pretty much everyone and say that I have had tremendous success saving seeds from a wide range of tomatoes, including Axiany Tomatoes which at the time were rumored to be a proprietary seed and not available to purchase, so I took the Axiany tomatoes from my local supermarket, saved the seeds and successfully grew Axiany replica tomatoes several years in a row. So it’s not guaranteed that you’re going to end up with something random, sometimes it works!