Gardener's Delight Tomato Seed Germination and Growing Thread

Good idea @JWK to have a thread for this. I will report the progress with my old seed.

 

I'm posting some of my old seeds to JWK, and sowing some myself, but still have some left. If anybody else wishes to participate, I probably have enough seeds to send 10'ish x 2005 plus 10'ish 2007 to 2 others free of charge (we have plenty of stamps). 'PM' if interested.

EDIT All taken.

 

Thanks for the thread John

@Scrungee is this the info you meant about Miracle Grow?

Can I germinate old tomato seeds?

 

I'll pm you

 

Hmm, my goodness! No pressure then ... but I do enjoy a challenge.

 

Scrungee is kindly sending me a few seeds so we'll see if GD decides to put up with being in the frozen north!....in a greenhouse I hasten to add

 

Also getting some seeds from our Scrungee so we'll see how they get on in the rainy north west. They will be going in a blow away and I'll try them outdoors....so let's hope I can get them to germinate!

 

Would be interesting if someone was to root a few cuttings from a plant and grow them under different conditions, maybe outside/inside, soil /grow bags, different liquid feeding, etc.

I think until you compare the actual same plant, rather than a seed grown version you're not going to get a true comparison.

 

Just a thought.
First of all, I won’t be growing any, but it strikes me that it might be useful to compare some of these older seed grown plants with some fresh seed grown plants? I reckon it would help dispel any expectation bias.