Here’s a photo from last season in my garden, of a tomato that I
was lucky to germinate, from seed labeled as “Rare”. The variety is from
Spain and is called Valenciano Clemente and the seed originated from someone I’d made contact with from a Garden Forum and who was living in Spain at the time.
I had about 7 or 8 seed for this variety, and although it was about 12-15 years since I was given the seed, I thought I’d try and grow it. The first try with 80% of the seed sown didn’t produce any seedlings, so I tried again with the last (3) seeds, eventually getting one to germinate.
The plant was quite weak to start with so I took a cutting and ended up with two plants growing in my garden. The season was pretty bad here for me but I ended up with a couple of bagged fruit and managed a small few seeds from the almost seedless bulky red heart tomato.
I had about 7 or 8 seed for this variety, and although it was about 12-15 years since I was given the seed, I thought I’d try and grow it. The first try with 80% of the seed sown didn’t produce any seedlings, so I tried again with the last (3) seeds, eventually getting one to germinate.
The plant was quite weak to start with so I took a cutting and ended up with two plants growing in my garden. The season was pretty bad here for me but I ended up with a couple of bagged fruit and managed a small few seeds from the almost seedless bulky red heart tomato.
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