29 year old seeds sprouted!

Boutique Tomatoes · March 16, 2012

I got a very nice surprise this morning, after only 6 days the magnitlo tente tomato seeds have sprouted! The variety was collected in Trinidad back in 1976, were last regenerated in 1982 and then put in "medium term storage"; some were retrieved for a tomato genetics study done in 1998 but there is no information available about the actual tomato, so what I get is going to be a complete surprise.

Only 2 out of the 22 Caribbean varieties I collected last year that have not germinated yet, and I'm not going to start worrying for at least two more weeks...

Doing Caribbean sauce trials this fall should be a lot of fun...

March 16, 2012	#1
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	29 year old seeds sprouted! I got a very nice surprise this morning, after only 6 days the magnitlo tente tomato seeds have sprouted! The variety was collected in Trinidad back in 1976, were last regenerated in 1982 and then put in "medium term storage"; some were retrieved for a tomato genetics study done in 1998 but there is no information available about the actual tomato, so what I get is going to be a complete surprise. Only 2 out of the 22 Caribbean varieties I collected last year that have not germinated yet, and I'm not going to start worrying for at least two more weeks... Doing Caribbean sauce trials this fall should be a lot of fun...