“Stick them thangs in the ground you be just fine!” Haha love it.

Sometimes it's just fun to see what happens Bobby.. Let a volunteer tomato grow one year that had no flavour but all the fruit were uniform in size.. Chooks still loved them though ;) Cheers Bobby & have a great one..

I have been saving celebrity tomato seeds and planting them for years. I have always had a good crop and will continue to save and plant them.

Some of my best performing tomatoes have been some random variety that came up from where a hybrid was planted. Only one time was it a cherry tomato, and I'm not even sure it was a cherry tomato it was more like a heart-shaped tomato and I saved the seeds from that tomato and I plant them every other year I don't know what variety they are but they are some of the sweetest Tomatoes I have ever had and they are my absolute favorite Cherry type tomato we call them Mystery Mader's, and I have given those seeds out to probably 30 or 40 people who now all grow them to and we have no idea what they are never seen him in the store I've never planted anything like them and I absolutely love them

Welcome back Bobby!, Thanks for keeping sharing good stuffs!!

Great to hear! I saved a bunch of hybrid tomato seeds from Tomatoes I purchased from the farm market last year, now I'm definitely going to start these seeds indoors!

I would like to "THANK YOU" for all the videos on growing a garden. I went from 3 or 4 tomatoes a week last year to I cant even count this year. We were able to eat, can give to friends and neighbors and to whoever else wanted or needed them. Between you and Donald I have learned so much. Thank you again !!!!!!

Thanks for the video! I threw in some compost into a small garden by the house this past Spring and volunteer tomatoes came up EVERYWHERE! I've been picking them all summer and they're just now starting to slow down. Mind you, they were about 90%+ cherry tomatoes (along with a few Roma), but free ones are among the best-tasting! They were high-quality cherries -- real big. Our new chickens have benefited from these free cherry tomatoes, too.

I had some beefsteak and a few cherry tomato volunteers last year. The plants were healthy. Almost no diseases whatsoever. The production was decent and fruit size was nice. I got about 10 volunteers last year. So all free tomatoes. Good luck out there.

I am so glad your back my friend and thanks for the tips

Volunteer plants are great, this year from the compost pile I got a tomato plant also a ton of pumpkins and gourds for Halloween. I will be roasting and freezing some of them for pies :) Have a good one, John.

If it's seed you saved then you know where it came from (mostly). Goo tip Bobby. We had ground cherries and tomatillos all over one of the gardens this years as volunteers from last year. We decided early on to let them be where ever they lay and know we are gleaning the benefits. Our share holders got plenty and now we are going to have enough to freeze and make jam & salsa verde out of them in the dead of winter. Saving seed from what you grow is definitely a smart idea.

I wondered why people say you can't grow with hybrid seeds! Thanks for the informative video!

Great video, You can indeed keep hybrids. Just might not have the same tomatoes all the time.

I have very little luck with tomatoes being my garden has too much shade so I did not plant any this year but there are about 15 or so Volunteer plants coming up so I caged them and going to see how they do. Good Informative video thanks.

Great info Bobby, thanks so much. Tel sweet Susan hello, xxx

Oh, definitely save seeds from that very productive plant with the good-sized smooth round tomatoes.

This gives me hope. I purchased some beautiful tomatoes at the fleamarket for a great price to can .."celebrity"... when I researched the breed I found out it was a hybrid. I had already saved seed from a 2lb er. These tomatoes where beautiful. Now I know I may not be wasting my time. Vivian Ann on the side of a mountain in Tennessee

Impressive. Thank you God Bless you.

I've had mass produced bell peppers on the go on the Widow sill for the third year on the go That's how I discovered they can be overwintered the stems are woody the fruit a bit small but Like you say worth saving the seeds also Squash seeds theses turned out to be ground hoggers But from each plant about 6 fruit all from big supermarkets not even organic GM who knows I'm Sure we would be the last to know that .That's a nice little haul you have there glad to see you and your lovely rib Still going strong xxx

Yessir! In fact I intentionally saved seeds from some store bought greenhouse grown tomatoes, and planted them in this years summer garden, and they turned out great! I also have one in the greenhouse for this winter, so we will see what happens!

they are beautiful tomatoes...

I found this video helpful, informative and entertaining! I'm already subscribed so I'll just hit the like button.

We like to use many different verity heirlooms but we did grow a few hybrids types this year. One type we grew was the big beef and when we compared it with the heirloom, the f1 type did much better with resistance to disease which means we sold more pounds. I saved seeds from both but as your know not sure what will turn up with the hybrid. I save so many heirloom seeds this year which is great when it comes to less spending for next season. Thanks for posting have a great weekend.

many suggests not to use hybrid seeds -I haven't tried -going to -after seeing this. Thanks a lot

A surprise crop is always nice and you can pick the ones you like to save more seed. I planted open pollinated jack-o-lantern pumpkin seeds that were apparently cross pollinated and got an amazing variety of strange squash the next year and even won a ribbon at the state fair with some that were real pretty and uniform in size. They were not very tasty. Thank you for the videos.

GREAT VIDEO,thx for the info

I am going to try that with seeds from my Juliet tomatoes next year

I have several sweet 100 tomato volunteers coming up now. I am going to try and over winter them in my greenhouse so we'll see what they produce! I really have a hard time killing any volunteers even from my compost. I just transplant them and label them compost. This year I had really good luck with some peppers that popped up...not sure what they were but they were awesome and free!

Love the video

If the hybrid comes from two parents with good qualities....then NO PROBLEM! :)

I saved the seeds from an awesome melon I got at the grocery store. Planted them the next year. I got 3 different types of mellon, I mean they didn't look or taste alike at all but we're all delish! Now I grow those melons individual from those same saved seed. I like to plant just snout anything and see what happens. Some good some not.

THX Bobby !

Now that you've got a huge Big Beef F2s growout, you can select and save seed from promising producers that taste good. The F3s should be more consistent. It's fun to play with them. I've got promising mater and squash crosses. I'm with Rob, gotta have fun with this stuff. Well, that's my main reason. Take care Bobby.

thx I will hav to watch out to see what comes up this year,volunteer

last year i planted a variety of tomatoes in a 4x8 raise planter box. around october i didn't around to covering them and on the west coast of british columbia we don't get a lot of snow, but we get LOTS of rain. the tomatos just rotted so i tilled them in and sowed my winter crops under two rows of plastic... come spring i must have had 500 tomato plants in that bed - i let them grow and every one except what i'm guessing is the black krim (small roma shape but black mottled) was a cherry tomato... extremely tasty, and great for dehydrating, but takes a lot to make a jar of tomato sauce! however i'm not one to turn up my nose at free food and a walk-by nibble when i'm gardening!

I have a mango that it's a mixture of mango and pineapple and it tastes just that way. Like blending together mango and pineapple.. They call it here mango-piña. The thing is that people tell me that all I'm going to get is a regular mango but the thing is that the leave doesn't look like a mango leaves they look more like a pineapple leave. It's like you said you never know what you'll get. Great video

I grew four varieties of tomatoes last year all from the produce section of the grocery (grape, yellow pear, cherry zebra, and vine tomatoes)... I had great results and don't understand why more people don't do this. in fact I saved some of the cherry zebra from last year to grow again this year (I think this would be 3rd generation) and am having great growth so far.

I agree!

Often times people see a volunteer that does not represent the original, only because they haven't tended and fertilized that wild growing plant. Ive experimented to find that very few seeds saved from hybrids or GMOs fail to produce crops relatively similar to the original plant. The GMO seed is especially adherent to the original. This is why farmers are not permitted by the seed companies to reuse the previous crop for seed. They are typically required to sign an agreement not to reuse crops as seed. The bigger issue is probably saving seeds from plants that were unintentionally cross pollinated in our garden. For that reason I tend to stick with one variety of each crop.

Thanks, Bobby! I didn't see any staking or supports with these. They still did all right? I thought the wet ground would have not been good for the tomatoes. Would appreciate a video (unless you have already done one) on how you save your seeds. Would it work to just throw the tomatoes you don't want back into the bed and till them under? Thanks! Now go and eat some of that yummy coconut pineapple cake!!

Food is food!

I bought a hybrid cantaloupe from the supermarket year before last, saved the seeds and planted them last year. It was very productive.. got one melon off and it was as big as the one i bought, but was 10X sweeter, and was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, it was the only melon i got from the vine because the deer destroyed it.

I guess that for every example, there's always a counter-example. I planted out some F1 strawberries a few years ago which I moved into a hydroponic setup this year. After a few months in the NFT rail I realised that not all of the plants were actually producing fruit. Two of the plants turned out to be children from the original F1 parents and produced white flowers intstead of pink - the children never produced any fruit at all (though they did throw out a lot of flowers).

Great video topic Bobby. I have what I call a golf ball variety that makes between 5 and 7 tomatoes to the cluster. It was saved from either a beefsteak hybrid or better boy. I did have cherries growing that year as well, but doubt it's a result of a field cross. I've grown them out and saved seed 3 times, and the results are the same with each generation. Very prolific, early indeterminate vines with a good disease resistance. The fruits are flavorful too, and make a good sauce. If I had tp pick a doomsday mater, I'd choose that one. Maybe gardener's delight would be my 2nd most reliable.

Interesting, thanks. :)

Ok, one more tomato story and I'll shut up. I'm sure you all have heard of the everglades tomato. In the Fl panhandle there was also a "wild" variety that the old folks called a "tommy toe", pronounced just as I spelled it. It was a cherry variety with oblong fruits that really didn"t resemble a toe. I think that between the deep southern mispronounciations, and maybe hearing of, but never actually seeing a tomatillo, they named it such.

I think most people or growers say not to save and regrow hybrid seeds from a breeders/professional perspective. It's most likely because like Mhp mentioned you want to know what's going in, so I saved seeds from porterhouse hybrid tomatos it reached 2 pds, and regrew it was fine, so if you need the food then I would grow at least your getting something that you can cook, and if it turns out fine you just cont to grow that seed. You have made your own heirloom from what I understand is how it works a variety grown over several yrs.

This year has been my first year of saving vegetable seeds. I've been saving flower seeds for a few years. Saving some tomatoes, some different squashes and apples. I plan of grafting from my current apple trees onto the root stock. What the heck, we'll see what happens. Fingers crossed. :)

it would be so fun to create a super hybrid tomato formed by mixing hybrids of hybrids that have the very best of best tomatoes

I get volunteers out of my composter all the time! Unfortunately, in the middle of Western Canada, my growing season is nowhere near long enough to ever get anything from them, since they mid-June at the earliest and many years they're just starting to flower when frost kills them (I had my first hard frost Sept 10 this year). :(

hey buddy....I need a video....how is your fall gardening going....hope all is well with you

what does mhp stand for again? love your videos and esp your accent. I find myself sort of mimicking it as I'm typing. LOL

I fed the piggies some winter squash one year, before moving them to a new "place", ahem. Anyways, the next year, all these weird-looking bumpy things came up all over the place. They were squash, and were very, very good. As long as you didn't have to look at them, lol.

I have some f2s from Gardening in Norway that he crossed he was also kind enough to send me some bean seed that are 200 year old well not the seed the plant lol . I am exited to see what I get next year I am sure some will be nice and some will be very nice maybe one or two will be better I will save more seed from them and bring them on. See what we get. You are right give it a try and see what you get.

Yes! Not sure what you might get, but it will keep you from going hungry! rc

Yup you are right. We have saved a bunch of seeds from the produce in the grocery store.... guess what happens when you plant them? You get produce! Funny how that works! :)

What if you plant a cutting from the hybrid, will it be identical.

my dog eats tomatoes and shits all over the yard... every year we seem to have volunteer tomatoes pop up all over the yard... the only thing we can put it down to is that our dog eats tomatoes and the seed survives his digestive system.. they grow like weeds when we let them grow naturally.. we've had many years like that.. only god knows what variety those where but we got tons of tomatoes many times without doing a thing other than throwing the random tomato to the dog to eat

Bobby I wonder about rotation gardening. It seems you don't have a problem planting things in the same place you did the previous year. What's your trick to keep that from causing problems. It's funny because you take such good care of your tomato's and you let those do what they wanted to and they look like good healthy plants. I think you just have that touch. Blessings! Janice

I’m new to planting and I have a question. If I buy f1 hybrid seeds from a seed company, where do those seeds come? Because we are told those seeds will give us an f1 plant that sets f1 fruit. I’m under the impression that f1 plants come from crossing two pure plants and that f1 plants produce fruit with the characteristics of both parents but f2 plants do not. So where do those f1 seeds that give us f1 plants and f1 fruit come from? If they come from the fruit of the f1 plant that resulted from the crossing of two pure plants, wouldn’t that make the plants we grow from f1 seeds we purchase to be f2 plants with f2 fruit? Yet from those f1 seeds we buy from seed companies they produce f1 plants and f1 fruit. I’m confused. Can someone please explain this?

How do they taste?

You didn’t use a support for ur tomato plant?

It's not just about having nothing else to eat. But doing F2 of something you like is exciting. Cos you don't know what you'll get. You may well get many different types, if you like some more than others save the seeds from the ones you like best and do an F3, again, see what ya get. If you have room for quite a lot of tomatoes I can't see why you wouldn't each year plant a few F2 wild cards just for shits and giggles.

Then follow the following your videos I planted the big beef today I picked one 2.19 oz

I plant the split tomatoes whatever they are and they come up the next year. I get medium and large tomatoes. Their still producing and its October in the pacific northwest!

I would love some volunteer Watermelons, melons, and whatever else that I never get to grow just start to grow and produce :-) I save seeds from almost everything. I have more seeds than spots to plant them LOL Thanks Tim I want to cross the fastest growing weed with a tomato to get a fast growing tomato! LOL

wife wanted to grow different color peppers, bought the 3 pak, red, yellow, orange, at grocery store, dried the seeds on yellow & orange for a week, put in pots,, 2 wks. later, growing like a charm cant wait to see what color they turn out, (as long as they taste good? who cares??)

I have a lot of fortex pole green beans that are drying out on the trellis. I popped one of the dried out pods open and ate one bean. It was good. It wasn't dry or mushy. Two Questions 1. Can you prepare the bean seeds and use them as food? 2. My guess is you can let them dry in the pod and use the seed to replant next year???

Great looking tomatoes. I still have some tomatoes ripping. But I want to start another batch from seeds or parent plant. Is the possible in my area in Los Angeles? I don't want to build a greenhouse because we don't have frost. I have tried but the plants grew slow and no tomatoes.

If you take suckers from your plants before you end them for the year, wont those suckers reproduce exact copies of the tomatoes true to their parent plants? Clones :-) Great video, once again!

How can I get hybrid tomato seeds?

What happened to me??? Ok, I got a small package of mixed tomatoes at Sam's club. When a few started to age more than I wanted, I sliced some and put in pots, and they grew. I snipped off the plants I didn't want and saved 4. I planted them and they grew into beautiful plants. EXCEPT..... NOT 1 TOMATO ALL SEASON??? My store bought plants produced fruit. ANY ideas of what I had??? I thought they were hybrids, but your saying hybrids will reproduce fruit.

Bobby, Can't one just cut the suckers off the hybrid re root them and keep growing year after year off just suckers? I did this with roma cherry and ML maters. I didn't save or by seeds for about 3 years... I fig a hybrid sucker would still produce the hybrid fruit correct?

how can i get seeds,please help me

Do we need greenhouse in hot country.

So, I saved seeds from a hybrid watermelon last year. I got about 5 different varieties it appeared from small dark green, to oblong light green and oblong striped. It was a good experiment but wont be doing it again. If it were a SHTF situation, the first place i'm going to hit is the city dump. Imagine how many different seeds/genes are out there just growing on their own for you to pick up. You won't go hungry that way.

Last year I planted sugar pumpkins from a seed packet...this year I used the seeds from my last years crop of sugar pumpkins and one of the plants produced long pumpkins the size of marrows and I got 3 pumpkins the same...what do you think happened?

What is the name of your mobile home park I live in emppria

saved seeds from Golden Cherry I don't care if the shape is off I just want that amazing flavor

Do you know if they keep the disease resistance of the original plant?

My experience is that hybrid volunteers ' are hit-or-miss as far as taste. I've had some that tasted great, and some that had almost no flavor at all.

my 3 year old grandchid eats tomatoes like most people eat an apple if you dont watch her she'll eat them straight from the garden

I often don't get the same thing after planting seeds from hybrid. Genetics screw it up I guess

mhpgardener Hello my name is Luis Thompson. I am the Director of Operations for SJV Quality Cotton managers of the historical former USDA Shafter Research Station Located In Shafter, CA. Our organization now manages and facility and a diverse scope of agricultural activities. I am breeding peppers as a fun project because I love hot stuff...anyway, I bred a new pepper that I entered into the Kern county fair. The competition was judged by a chemist at CSU Bakersfield and I won with my new pepper that was an average of 2,165,137 Scoville Heat Units, which is hotter than "Smoking Ed's Carolina Reaper" I need to connect with you as I have a few things I would like to run by you.there are some opportunities at hand. If you would be willing chat let me know. Thanks, Luis

We have the best tomato seeds one kg Price is 10 dollers

eating hybrid tomato will cause you to grow extra leg or something