Seeds from Tomatoes I select only from fruits of the female type - they are of higher quality. How do I distinguish them from men

In fact, it is not that difficult to grow tomatoes from your own planting material. The main thing is to choose the seeds from the fruits of the female type.

Guided by my own experience, I can say that they are distinguished by better germination and give more viable, hardy, unpretentious and productive plants.

And it is very easy to recognize such fruits! Here's what I learned about this area from some articles and conversations with other gardeners.

The surest sign of the "sex" of tomatoes is on the top of the vegetable, in the very place from which a flower once fell off during the ripening process.

In a male tomato, you can usually find just a small dot there and, in principle, this top seems to be a little pointed.

If you look at a woman's, you will surely find that the dot on it is larger and it is even more like a dash, a speck. The top of the vegetable as a whole looks more flattened.

The situation is somewhat more complicated with tomatoes of the so-called plum and cone-shaped varieties. These include, for example, the Bull's Heart variety. But in principle, you need to look at the top of these vegetables - for a female tomato it will be rounded, for a male tomato it will be more elongated.

As for the common advice that female tomatoes usually grow on the lower brush, and male tomatoes on the very top or that women usually mature earlier than men, then from personal experience I can say that all this is myths!

But there are still some signs that, theoretically, you can focus on.

And the female tomato, as they say, can be recognized by the fact that:

· It tastes sweeter;

· He has a more pronounced pattern, if any at all in the variety;

· He has a thicker skin.

Naturally, all these signs are not true by themselves, but in terms of comparing the qualities of vegetables of the same variety and those grown under the same conditions, ideally, generally collected from the same bush.

Collect tomatoes for seeds, and, it does not matter - male or female, you always need to in good, dry weather and preferably in the early morning, before the sun begins to bake and always before the first watering of the day, otherwise the planting material may not be preserved until spring.

I would also like to add that you can only grow tomatoes from your own seeds if they belong to ordinary, that is, non-hybrid varieties, which, with this method, are simply not able to inherit parental signs.

If you like hybrid tomatoes, you need to buy their seeds from the manufacturer.