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Hobart, Indiana

Can you save seeds from this tomato
and expect big tomatos again? This is my
first year growing giants and this tomato
is giving off some mega blooms for me.
It is a hybrid that's why I'm asking.

8/13/2014 8:17:29 PM

Bloomington, IN USA

Unfortunately, if it is truly a hybrid, what you will get from saved seed next year will be a real crapshoot.
If you grow 20 plants from the saved seed I think you may get 1 that will have that tendency to throw megablooms.
But if you have a lot of growing space & want to dedicate yourself to it, maybe after 6-7 generations you could have a "Steveo" variety that could possibly rival Big Zac!
The other thought is that sometimes seed companies will call a variety hybrid even though it is not, but I don't think that is likely with Burpee.
If it indeed is not a hybrid & your seed is not crossed, then you would expect the similar plant next year.

8/13/2014 9:32:39 PM

Hamilton Nj

i will be saveing seeds from theese tomatos i got maybe one megabloom ,and i got 10 seeds left from what i got from burppee so ill try ands see if i get the same results from them??? i think it cant hurt to try , i also save my big zac seeds there hybryds??? with okay results ,

do the big companys like burpee and totaly tomatos do anything different to their seeds they save???? just curious????

cause if there hybryds and save seeds from them what is so different from what we save???

thanks pizzapete

8/14/2014 12:11:11 AM

Hamilton Nj

i will be saveing seeds from theese tomatos i got maybe one megabloom ,and i got 10 seeds left from what i got from burppee so ill try ands see if i get the same results from them??? i think it cant hurt to try , i also save my big zac seeds there hybryds??? with okay results ,

do the big companys like burpee and totaly tomatos do anything different to their seeds they save???? just curious????

cause if there hybryds and save seeds from them what is so different from what we save???

thanks pizzapete

8/14/2014 12:11:11 AM

Hamilton Nj

i will be saveing seeds from theese tomatos i got maybe one megabloom ,and i got 10 seeds left from what i got from burppee so ill try ands see if i get the same results from them??? i think it cant hurt to try , i also save my big zac seeds there hybryds??? with okay results ,

do the big companys like burpee and totaly tomatos do anything different to their seeds they save???? just curious????

cause if there hybryds and save seeds from them what is so different from what we save???

thanks pizzapete

8/14/2014 12:11:12 AM

Allentown, PA

I'm very interested in what this can do.

Like what Materdoc said, saving seeds from a hybrid guarantees that you will have something other than the hybrid growing the next season. You will be growing one of the tomato strains that were crossed in order to produce the hybrid. This doesn't mean that you won't get a strain that throws mega blooms but you just won't get the hybrid that you grew the first time.

8/14/2014 7:23:54 AM

Hamilton Nj

oh okay thank you very much !!! i knew i was missing something!!! pizza

8/14/2014 6:54:32 PM

Hamilton Nj

oh okay thank you very much !!! i knew i was missing something!!! pizza

8/14/2014 6:54:33 PM

Hamilton Nj

oh okay thank you very much !!! i knew i was missing something!!! pizza

8/14/2014 6:54:33 PM

East Carbon, Utah

What kind of size range did you get from this, the "biggest tomato ever bred!"? And was the flavor "sublime" as claimed?

10/1/2014 8:46:17 PM