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  • From: Lucy Goodman <goodows AT infinet.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Seed saving (was Hydroponics)
  • Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:32:31 -0500

I don't do hydroponics but I do save seed. I have been saving yellow taxi tomatoes for about 10 years and have gotten them to produce a full 6 days earlier than any commercial yellow taxi seed. last year they ripened at 52 days in a hoophouse planted in April and the plants planted in June ripened in about 48 days. there are several other varieties of tomatoes I have been saving for years.

GL-18/Glick's Pride. A nice red tomato I got from a fellow market grower from EC Indiana. She found seeds in the attic of her father in-law, a Mennonite seed breeder, who was literally on his death bed. they were marked GL-18 and she planted something like 2000 of them and got two plants and I got a single fruit from that planting and have been growing them out ever since. In the 2nd year they did cross with opalka, a canning tomato but before that happened i did get seeds to Abundant life Seed Foundation and several folks in SSE have been growing out the more pure strain. The cross I have is tasty but not a true GL-18 any longer.

Pink Brandywine-These have crossed badly in the past 3 years with opalka and now we have the beginnings of a really nice pink canning mater. If we can get the hybrid stabilized. We will be going into our second year of growing these out. This first year we got something like 7 different tomatoes including a heart shaped striped tomato. Saved seed from anything striped or pink and long and will replant them next year and see what happens

Opalka-a sauce tomato from Poland. Got seeds from a former employer of my husband's 10 years ago. he called it Ky Cow's Teat but it fits the description of opalka. At any rate over the years we have let these cross and these seem to want to cross as readily as a pink brandywine. this year it is time for new seed and better isolation in the future.

lucy

David Inglis wrote:

Have any of you Hydroponic folk of whatever ilk, ‘organic’ or not, saved seed from your Tomatoes, and if so how many generations and to what effect?

Thanks. David

Mahaiwe Harvest CSA

W.Mass.

Z5

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