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Planted Campari Seeds
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Posted by
kpev7hard 7 (
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Fri, Jun 24, 11 at 8:48
| I recently discovered how awesome Campari tomatoes are when I bought a pack from BJ's. I immediately went online to see where I could buy seeds and found that you can't! I read that some people had success planting seeds from the tomatoes they bought at the store, so last night I tossed a bunch of seeds in a pot (after I made a delish tomato basil salad!). Has anyone had success growing seeds from store-bought Camparis?? I searched this forum and found some threads about this, but no one ever said whether they got any fruit! |
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| i planted them last year, they grew pretty true to the ones i bought in the store. The plants were also loaded with them, and they kept for a decent amount of time. Definitely worth the try to plant them. |
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| oh good!! we'll see what happens i guess. |
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| My experience has been the same as pz1122. The fruit we grew from seed were very similar to the storebought Camparis. Tom |
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| thanks! so do i need to do anything special to the seeds to get them to germinate? i just scraped them right from the cutting board to the pot. |
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| It helps to rub the gel off the seeds with a paper towel. The gel has a hormone in it that inhibits germination. |
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| They should sprout in 5 days or.if not they may have rotted |
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| My friend actually found campari tomato plants at our local greenhouse! We shall see if they have them this year. Worth the effort, great tomatoes. |
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| Campari is a hybrid and was bred for inside greenhouse growing, and many have found that if growing plants from the saved seeds from the hybrid that they can have white cores. At another message site someone was comparing Campari saved seeds with Mountain Magic F1, which I love, and that b'c MMF1 is said to be a Campri type/ I can't link to threads from other sites here at GW but the pictures he showed indicated all sizes of fruits of Campari as opposed to the uniform size fruits of MM F1. So I think it's great that some of you say that the fruits of the Camparis are no differernt from the orignal F1's. If you stop to think about it, I don't think that makes much sense, b'c seeds saved from a hybrid start segregating and you'd see that if you planted out enough plants, as this fellow did. Whatever, though, if you like them that's all that matters. Carolyn |
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- Posted by uncle_t Z6 Ontario CAN (My Page) on
Sat, Mar 23, 13 at 18:45
| Campari thread bumped (instead of starting another). So last week (during a snow storm) I purchased a 1 lb. clamshell of Sunset Campari tomatoes. Five bucks for a pound of tomatoes! Where's the beef......steak? Heck, sirloin costs less. :\ For I could not bear the idea of paying Burbee's "give us your first child" prices: http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/tomatoes/tomato-mountain-magic-hybrid-prod001633.html Planted the seeds three days ago; they are now sprouted and looking great! I'm not worried about them growing "true"; i'll take my chances. |
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| I just looked at my notes from the time I grew seeds from a grocery Campari. It was one of the Late Blight years; I only got a handful of fruit, but they seemed like the parent fruit I'd eaten several months earlier. I remember the F2's "white core" as more of a white thread or string: annoying but involving a smaller percentage of the fruit than the white cores some larger varieties have. |
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- Posted by jll0306 9/ Sunset 18/High De (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 26, 13 at 18:27
| I was very happy with the taste of the Campari I started from seeds of the store bought varieties, as were the people I gifted with my extra plants. I did not save the seeds and try for another generation. I not gotten into dehybridizing at all, but I have read that there will be much more segregation in the next generations, and that it is not until F-8 that one can be said to have a stable variety. 5 bucks for three or four tomatoes IS expensive. but when you look at it in the light of the comparison Uncle has made, it is really a bargain. And you don't have to pay postage! Jan |
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