Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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April 22, 2007 | #18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: PNW
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Andrey:
"Looking to these seed packets on that Estonian e-shop I can get you 100% that they are definately not growing all these seeds and varieties in Estonia." I meant that the US vendor whose web site that URL that I posted is part of grows their own tomatoes for seed. (They may have help from local farmers in their area.) They say so, but of course that proves nothing in itself, and I haven't seen their farms, greenhouses, etc. But the germination rates that I have had from that US vendor's seed are consistently around 9 seeds out of 10 across multiple different cultivars. That seems a little too consistent to me for repackaged seed from multiple different vendors. (I don't see that kind of consistent germination rate buying seed myself from multiple different US seed vendors. Some packets are very fresh and germinate well, while others have mediocre germination rates, regardless of the date on the seed packet.) I get the impression that the GH Organics seeds that I have sprouted were all fermented by the same person using the same method from fruit grown in the last year or two. (Free sample giveaways may be older seed.) "And Peramoga 165 is still one of the most popular tomato varieties of Belarusian (not Belarussian, because Belarus is our official name from 1992)" (I was guessing on the spelling. Thanks for the correction.) "origin since Soviet Union times. And PerEmoga is just a Russian mistaken spelling of Peramoga (victory) from Belarusian language." So would farmers in Estonia likely find it suitable for their growing season? I would guess that the seeds that the US vendor grew out came from tomatoes grown in Estonia, which is how they got the idea that cultivar itself was from Estonia. I just hope it tastes as good as it looks and that I get lots of them.:-)
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