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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: New Mexico
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Some seeds in NAR and Chapman I was saving had dark spots in the center of the seed. Can anyone say definitively that those seeds with spots are viable or not?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Northern Minnesota - zone 3
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In two different years, I specifically saved out and dried dark seeds and partly colored (I called them pinto seeds) and tested them later for viability. For me, they had roughly a 20 - 30% success rate as freshly dried seeds. So I wouldn't use them for trading, but if your seed count is low, keep them as back up for yourself.
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=3057 similar discussion: http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=12375 The second time, a few years later, I repeated with some dwarf project selection seeds, and actually kept a few of the resulting seedlings from the test. The plants from the dark seeds were normal in every way with good production the next summer, but I never checked to see if they themselves had an abnormal amount of dark seeds. Ted -- did you ever pursue this?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: New Mexico
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Dee,
Thank you. This is exactly the info I was looking for. I will subjugate the dark seeds to backup status. Charley Quote:
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MA/NH Border
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Thank you both! I often end up with a few seeds in each fermentation that have a dark brown-to-black spot and as I'm plucking them off my drying plate to discard them, it crosses my mind to ask about them on here. But then I forget. I tend to not save or sow seeds that don't look right to me, but that's not based on any hard facts as to whether they are viable or not.
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