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Gardening

NRaleighLiberal

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1. Tomatoes - yes indeed - let them go full color

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 04:08 PM

Nov 2017

seeds will be fine. Last year I had lots of breeding project tomatoes coming along in a second crop - some took over a month indoors to ripen - saved seed germinated fine this year.

Peppers won't really change color on sitting from my experience - they need to go to their final ripe color on the plant. Seeds from unripe peppers won't be any good - they won't germinate.

Pepper seeds just need to be removed and dried indoors (I use paper plates).

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seed saving ?? [View all] mopinko Nov 2017 OP

Tomatoes - yes indeed - let them go full color NRaleighLiberal Nov 2017 #1

just wanting to send out a flier to see if pepper germination can be boosted. mopinko Nov 2017 #2

what works against this in peppers is that don't seem to continue to ripen off the vine NRaleighLiberal Nov 2017 #3

hmmm. mopinko Nov 2017 #4