How to Grow Tomatoes from Seeds at Home
If you have a hobby of gardening at home, why don’t you plant tomatoes for your household use in your backyard? Growing tomatoes and other fruits or veggies can be a real fun-filled activity. The delight of eating up the fruits and veggies being grown at your own home is compared to nothing. You can grow tomatoes from their seeds and the same process will apply for growing other fruits or vegetables containing seeds in pulp, like cucumber, cantaloupe and watermelon etc.
Instructions
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Make sure to choose tomato from plant being grown from an heirloom or open pollinated ones because selecting a tomato from hybrid or chemically treated seeds will yield you nothing but disappointment in the end.
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Take a tomato and cut it in two halves before scooping out its pulp and entire seeds in a bowl. You have to put the bowl aside for the fermenting process. A layer of mold will appear when fermenting is done and this is necessary to prevent many diseases which can affect the tomato plant in the future. Wash out the seeds with water after fermenting.
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Take a clean container and put the tomato pulp, along with the seeds, into it. Add twice as much water as the seeds and pulp mixture you have in the container.
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Close out the container and shake vigorously to separate the pulp. Normally, good seeds will sink to the bottom, whilst the bad ones keep floating on water surface.
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Separate the seeds from water by passing through a strainer and then rinse them out with vinegar and salt. Spread out the seeds on a piece of plywood or glass surface for drying. Never use paper or cloth for drying tomato seeds.
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Put the completely dried seeds in a plastic bag and place it in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks.
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You will require peat pots for growing your tomato plant initially. Moist the soil in the peat pots by spraying water onto them and add 2 to 3 seeds in each pot.
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You are required to only spray water over the pots for the initial 7 to 10 days regularly. When you see seeds sprouting, you can water the pots less frequently.
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Put the peat pots in warm and sunny place. Placing them near a window is one of the best options to provide sunlight and warmth to the pots.
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When you see your plant grown several inches within the pot and more than three leaves on it, you should transplant it to your garden.
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Dig a hole in your garden and fill it with water after placing the tomato plant into it. Be very careful while taking out the plant from the pot. You are not to damage its roots at all. Put the dirt in the hole to cover up the roots of the plant.
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You can pick up the tomatoes from the plants when they turn red and enjoy eating your own-grown tomatoes!
