On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:40:32 -0400, songbird >
wrote:

>jmcquown wrote:
>...
>> The OP did say he "saved quite a few bell pepper and tomato seeds". I
>> suspect he's starting off with seeds from what he grew in containers
>> last year... at least, that is how I interpreted it when he mentioned
>> containers. Whatever they were, they were good enough for him to save
>> the seeds and want to grow them again. Just sayin'
>
> that doesn't mean they will return as that same type of
>tomato if he plants those seeds.

They rarely do. We plant a lot of tomatoes but tomato seeds are cheap
enough. We start them in peat pots in the basement. We don't do any
canning, they get eaten in salads, turned into sauce that's frozen,
and a lot are given away. At the end of the growing season we pickle
green tomatoes, that's as close to canning tomatoes as we get. We
grow a lot of Kirby Cukes and those are also eaten in salads and are
pickled. Tomatoes and cukes become salsa cruda every day.

> if they were a hybrid tomato he could have quite a bit
>of difference from what was grown the previous season.
>
> if they were a heirloom tomato or some other variety
>that was not a hybrid he'd have a better chance of
>getting the same type of tomato back, but not a guarantee
>since open pollenated plants can be fertilized from any
>other pollen sources in that area.
>
>
> songbird