Harvesting the seeds of their tomatoes. Step-by-step instruction

Seed selected well-ripened and healthy-looking fruit, with no signs of disease. Tomatoes should be taken not the first brush and the second or third because the first tomatoes may be atypical in size and shape. It can also be peresort. Don'ts dense plantation between different varieties as cross-pollination occurs. Moreover, in hot and dry weather, pollen becomes easy and without problems be extended to other varieties of other flowers.

How to collect seeds

If we cut the tomatoes crosswise, you can see several chambers with seeds. The average size of the tomatoes they are usually 4-5. In large fruit has a large number of cameras. Small-fruited tomato usually have two chambers. Depending on the number of chambers for seed collection technology will be different.

Step-by-step instruction

1. Take a medium-sized fruit and cut it along. Pull seeds with the juice from all the cameras in 0.5 liter jar with a knife. With the small-berried fruits do all the same.

2. Take large-fruited cultivar and cut across, because there are a lot of cameras. Knife to get all the seeds from existing cameras or squeeze them, pushing the fruit by hand, together with the juice in a jar.

3. Banks cover and leave for three days for fermentation.

4. On each bank to attach a tag, which indicated the name of the class, so as not to confuse them.

5. Every day, banks need to shake.

Around each seed is watery shell, which contains a substance that prevents the germination of the seed. For three days the shell is completely dissolved in the watery juice. On the fourth day the seeds can begin to germinate, but this is not desirable

6. After take the jar and pour in a bucket under the pressure of the water jets to wash out seeds. From the first time does not work, so you have to pour the remnants of tomato juice and washed again with water until the seeds are clean. The water drained slowly so that the seeds remain in the bucket.

7. Take a wooden tray, lay a cloth and put on dry seeds.

8. Put the container with the seeds in the sun. The drying process takes 2-3 days depending on temperature and weather.

9. Seeds after drying stick together, so you need to wrap them in Tacna and slightly to rub his hands. They are easy to crumble.

10. Remove the seeds deposited in the container and sign.

Tomato seeds stored may be up to 5 years, after 3 years of germination begins to decline.

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