I tried very hard to follow this interesting storyline and would have appreciated a chronological play list. Congrats on resurrecting a species! Thanks for all the great info
Wyatt Brooks I know right!! I have to do all kinds of UA-cam searches just to find updates lol I hope this is the most recent video or else my search continues.
This really brings satisfaction. I have to stop dragging my feet and start some indoor plants. There isn't much in life that's more productive. I didn't know tomatoes are a vine. I thought they'd get stem rot. I'm learning a lot from these videos.
I don't have a lot of space in my house. I'm basically just waiting for the new year when we take our Christmas tree down. Then it'll be show time! Lol
Good to see you enjoying the process since originally you said it felt so stressful you didn't think you would want to do it again... I say you should add rare seed starting to the channel whenever possible! It's a fun and rewarding process as you've done great so far the genetics are in good hands
Luke, we bless you and are grateful to you for resurrecting the original genetic strain (from 87 years ago) of the Giant Crimson Tomato. Thank you! As an avid seed-saver and "preservationist" myself, I cannot begin to describe how much your efforts fill my heart! Reviving seeds from this variety will be part of your "legacy". When you are ready to release seeds from this variety, we will be most grateful. In the interim, please keep up the good work. We enjoy your videos and appreciate all that you do. Thank you.
You may already be doing this but just in case. Try adding some heat to get the seeds to sprout. This time of year my house is only about 67 degrees. The seeds tend to germinate better at 75 to 80 degrees. Good video, I was just recommending your channel on my live broadcast last night and you delivered with a great video for all my viewers to come and watch.
Try layering soil mixes to start seeds that germinate slowly. The top layer should drain water quickly and the bottom layer should absorb water. That should keep the seeds from rotting before they sprout and provide a source of water for the roots once they sprout.
Not really on topic but could you do a how to make sun dried tomatoes? I’ve always loved eating them in my foods and at restaurants and usually buy them precanned at the store. Was wondering how to maybe do it at home with the tomatoes that we grow at home.
trust me when i say you are better off buying them, you need a sun oven and a sulfur compound( whose name i forget) plus extra fans for more ventilation. its a pain in the boot.
I suppose you could always make cuttings from the suckers for more plants. I know you did that last year when growing for seeds. Not sure how well that works compared to starting from seeds though.
Try inoculating the seeds in worm tea. Because of the added nutrients it may help them sprout. I had seeds that were not germinating (not as old as yours) but I tried soaking them in worm tea overnight and I finally got them to grow. 👍 Good Luck and looking forward to more videos on this tomatoe. 😃
Great video Luke! I love everything about hydroponics. Thanks so much for sharing your crimson tomato plant! I've been looking fowars to this video! I love those black 3 1/2 gallon pots you have they work amazing for a lot of the smaller produce I grow like my peppers, peas, lettuce, radish and more! Always a pleasure watching your videos, they are so informative!
Awesome video as always, someday I wish to have a house where I can set up a grown room in the basement. Something to keep me occupied while stuck in winter.
General Hydroponics Rapid Rooters are awesome for starting any kind of seed. Better than rockwool IMHO and once sprouted can be planted in soil, coir, hydroton or even larger rockwool cubes. You wouldn't be disappointed if you tried them, but I know you are stubborn and have your own ways, haha. For comment readers though, please research and pick up a bag of them. Another hot tip? Reverse Osmosis filtered water.
@@bakachiki491 they're about $15 for 50 versus $8 for rockwool. You get micro-nutrients suitable for any seed or cutting already in them, just dampen with neutral water and pop a seed or cutting in. I'm just a fan, lol.
Huh, interesting. Very cool, I'll have to try the trifecta thing. I'm about to put my 2 Tiny Tim Tomato plants in 5-gallon buckets (Kratky Style), I'm hoping for a good yield.
I wonder what these tomatoes taste like and what their nutrient cont is compared to today's tomatoes? Have we improved tomatoes or made them worse in order to mass produce them?
Worse, to mass produce, but varieties have been made better for home and small market gardeners. There is a definite push, now, for quality over quantity, in smaller spaces. Some newer OP and hybrid varieties have even more good stuff, like carotenoids, than those past. But, it's an open question on how much better even those are, on the whole, compared to ones like this that he's growing, that have been lost to history. It's been realized pretty recently that lower producing wild greens would have offered enough Omega-3 and Omega-6 fats, with a good balance between them, to have allowed our inland ancestors to forego fish, and still develop well in tough times (when grazing animals, which also have healthier fats than factory farmed ones, were scarce). But, those we have bred for food don't cut it, and farming methods don't help, either. In the past, people would just selectively breed the local plants, so we had like hundreds of varieties of kales, spinaches, and so on, in North America, prior to the growth of big ag. There are people out there trying to find and save some of these old plants, lest they go extinct, and studying them may well provide us with critical information that we could use for future plant breeding, as raw production and distribution become less and less of a problem (even today, almost all starvation and malnutrition is primarily political in nature, and we make enough food to feed billions of extra people). That was longer than I was planning....
@@laurelsporter 100% agree on all points. I'd like to see nutrient content on fruits and vegetables. It used to be assumed good but you can't assume that any more. If we could blend the push for healthier nutrition content with e mass production of big ag, that would be the best combo for everyone, but it has to be pushed for.
@@laurelsporter Well quantity is needed if you consider the world's population and everything, older varieties might taste better but they don't grow as well normally so they end up being harder to grow and more expensive
@@bakachiki491 which is not a problem for (a) home gardeners, (b) small market gardeners, and (c) specialty regional farmers, if not others. As well, LEDs are allowing dense fast growing of common herbs and greens in smaller spaces, not using farmland (also often less water, synthetic fertilizer, pesticides, etc., at a minor added labor and power cost). It's really not a practical problem, like it may have been a few decades ago. As more greens, herbs, and small vegetables get grown not using farmland, it will be even less of one (which is good for other reasons, as traditional big age is not good for the land, but other methods reduce predictability). Esoteric plants aren't going to displace the cheap cabbages and onions on produce shelves, even if some gain more popularity. They'll displace regular vegetables at your weekend markets, roadside stands, CSAs, and high-end grocers, just as things like different basils, purple carrots, and quality tomatoes do, already.
Depends on how you look at it. They usually contain more nutrients now but they are also modified to handle processing and to be larger and more uniform and all of those sacrifice the quality in flavor.
Have a question. Where did you get those yellow trays over on your growing stand? I’ve been trying to find some to replace mine and haven’t found any anywhere! Great video!! 😃
You don’t need soil or at least not a lot. You need the bacteria in the soil to germinate the seeds. Put a little soil with your seeds and that should be enough to grow the bacteria the seed needs to grow.
Luke, happy holidays to you and family. I have a question you might be able to answer. Is it possible to grow a tomato plant to the fruit stage indoor during our michigan winter. Have you ever tried and if so...what happened? Oh my bad. That's what you're doing here. I was typing while the video was playing.
They are still small so probably past growing dates for most people by the time he gets seeds from them. Maybe next year, unless he gets tomatoes and is able to plant them out in spring
@@reesedundee8525 I'll tell you reese flow, its short sighted slugs like you that want something for nothing. You want something that someone took the time to find and bring back from extinction. That wants to enjoy the fruits of his hard labors without Big Business making millions off of his rare find. It is short sighted people like you that have no dog in the fight making stupid demands and off handed slights only to cast shade and shadows on an stand up guy like Luke. Why don't go back to HomeDepot and buy your seeds from them and let a field scientist like Luke do his thing and keep your off handed remarks to your self Because NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU! You mental midget!
reese flow He’s probably seen things we can only imagine so I can’t blame him for being selfish. I do hope he does share with a trusted group who can help him generate seeds so we can eventually enjoy this without making no one but him rich. I do believe he deserves to profit from these seeds.
He is not being selfish. he is trying to get enough seeds to sell it to people. He should not just give the seeds to everybody that wants them. it is still endangered plant. more seeds are needed to make sure that it doesn't disappear.
You cant rule out the "it just doesn't germinate" no matter what you do, reason. Right? If everything was 100%, the world would be a different place. E.g. No matter how much you do, it's impossible to make everything work.
Hi Midgardener just subed your channel ..... Heidi Marchant recommended your channel long story but here goes{{{{{ here in Beverly Hills we have a small local neighborhood gardening club {{ we are purely amateur.so we shall follow you through 2019 growing season {{ we have no fancy equipment raised beds by 3ft because kneeling is a no no... {{ replacement joints ah ah a few greenhouses a plenty of enthusiasm.. our club members consist of retired film actors actresses producers / directors etc... so you can guess where im coming from {{ with your help we our club would like to progress and further our selling capacity into vegetables on our stall at our farmers market most of the takings go to a charity for Children with Learning difficulties {{ i myself have suffered all my life with dyslexia.. so this charity is close to my heart{{{OK you may think if im dyslexic.. how am i typing out this comment ahhh.. my son has incorporated a spelling grammer correction program into my computor OK Midgardener...all the best for the New Year ....Edwin J Thompson..... Ed
so 87 year old seedling from seed. not an 87 year old tomato.... i dislike misleading titles. should be 'transplanting the seedlings from the 87 year old seeds!'
I tried very hard to follow this interesting storyline and would have appreciated a chronological play list. Congrats on resurrecting a species! Thanks for all the great info
I wish there was a crimson tomato playlist on the channel
Wyatt Brooks I know right!! I have to do all kinds of UA-cam searches just to find updates lol I hope this is the most recent video or else my search continues.
Exactly
Truly looking forward to when you have enough seed from this tomato to sell seeds.
This really brings satisfaction. I have to stop dragging my feet and start some indoor plants. There isn't much in life that's more productive. I didn't know tomatoes are a vine. I thought they'd get stem rot. I'm learning a lot from these videos.
@@sapphireblue222 Just Nightshade family. These are not deadly, so why would you put that in front of there?
I don't have a lot of space in my house. I'm basically just waiting for the new year when we take our Christmas tree down. Then it'll be show time! Lol
@@amandabarnes5235 you say that, now, but just wait. Once you have a little success, the bug will get you, and you'll start making room.
Good to see you enjoying the process since originally you said it felt so stressful you didn't think you would want to do it again... I say you should add rare seed starting to the channel whenever possible! It's a fun and rewarding process as you've done great so far the genetics are in good hands
Isn't it 88 years by now?
Luke, we bless you and are grateful to you for resurrecting the original genetic strain (from 87 years ago) of the Giant Crimson Tomato. Thank you! As an avid seed-saver and "preservationist" myself, I cannot begin to describe how much your efforts fill my heart! Reviving seeds from this variety will be part of your "legacy". When you are ready to release seeds from this variety, we will be most grateful. In the interim, please keep up the good work. We enjoy your videos and appreciate all that you do. Thank you.
You may already be doing this but just in case. Try adding some heat to get the seeds to sprout. This time of year my house is only about 67 degrees. The seeds tend to germinate better at 75 to 80 degrees. Good video, I was just recommending your channel on my live broadcast last night and you delivered with a great video for all my viewers to come and watch.
Old school seeds require old school germination methods. Hope it works 🙏🏼💕✌️
Not really
Merry Christmas! Thanks for all the videos fellow steaders, farmers and UA-camrs. We love watching and keeping up with you each day.
That is such a incredibly beautiful plant! I love the crimson color under the leaf! What a beauty! Love this series !!!!
Cannot wait for seeds ! I’m so incredibly happy for you! This is so great to see! Great job Luke !
Try layering soil mixes to start seeds that germinate slowly. The top layer should drain water quickly and the bottom layer should absorb water. That should keep the seeds from rotting before they sprout and provide a source of water for the roots once they sprout.
Another great one Luke!
My giant crimsons are growing!
Not really on topic but could you do a how to make sun dried tomatoes? I’ve always loved eating them in my foods and at restaurants and usually buy them precanned at the store. Was wondering how to maybe do it at home with the tomatoes that we grow at home.
This!
I've been looking for one to make an all dried seasoning with but they all use oil that I found.
trust me when i say you are better off buying them, you need a sun oven and a sulfur compound( whose name i forget) plus extra fans for more ventilation. its a pain in the boot.
So exciting! Can't wait to see how well your plants grow! Thanks for sharing!
I suppose you could always make cuttings from the suckers for more plants. I know you did that last year when growing for seeds. Not sure how well that works compared to starting from seeds though.
It works like 10 times better. The suckers root within days and start bearing fruit VERY soon.
If you let the tomato make suckers, the suckers are really easy to root up. You will then have all the plants you need. Ane
Try inoculating the seeds in worm tea. Because of the added nutrients it may help them sprout.
I had seeds that were not germinating (not as old as yours) but I tried soaking them in worm tea overnight and I finally got them to grow. 👍 Good Luck and looking forward to more videos on this tomatoe. 😃
Great video Luke! I love everything about hydroponics. Thanks so much for sharing your crimson tomato plant! I've been looking fowars to this video! I love those black 3 1/2 gallon pots you have they work amazing for a lot of the smaller produce I grow like my peppers, peas, lettuce, radish and more! Always a pleasure watching your videos, they are so informative!
What's been on my mind is when I'm going to be able to buy giant crimson seeds.
Could the Giant Crimson at some point be able to be cloned by rooting the suckers?
Awesome video as always, someday I wish to have a house where I can set up a grown room in the basement. Something to keep me occupied while stuck in winter.
I just love this series since the very first video u did when u found the seeds.
General Hydroponics Rapid Rooters are awesome for starting any kind of seed. Better than rockwool IMHO and once sprouted can be planted in soil, coir, hydroton or even larger rockwool cubes. You wouldn't be disappointed if you tried them, but I know you are stubborn and have your own ways, haha. For comment readers though, please research and pick up a bag of them. Another hot tip? Reverse Osmosis filtered water.
But are they expensive ?
@@bakachiki491 they're about $15 for 50 versus $8 for rockwool. You get micro-nutrients suitable for any seed or cutting already in them, just dampen with neutral water and pop a seed or cutting in. I'm just a fan, lol.
Hi Luke! So exciting to see this tomato's journey! I'm wondering if it's possible to put too much fertilizer in? I thought too much could burn plants?
Huh, interesting. Very cool, I'll have to try the trifecta thing. I'm about to put my 2 Tiny Tim Tomato plants in 5-gallon buckets (Kratky Style), I'm hoping for a good yield.
Great video. Always something new😎😎😎😎.
You have an interesting approach to raising your tomatoes. It is going to be interesting to see how it comes out. I wish you lots of luck. :-)
My question is " When will those seeds be available ?" LOL Would love to try to grow them too. :)
try cloning the ones that came up / root cuttings
Do you still have the cottage garden?
Love following this. Look forward to a seed offering in the future.
If you do end up with seeds in the future, please offer some to viewers!! please.
The other plants I see around..have you done any episode on how those are planted?
I love the medium you used fir the tomatoes!
Try growing it the old-fashioned way. I just need one seed to grow here in Texas.
Have you ever put seeds in a sandwich bag with a moist paper towel in a window . Starts .
Yes please keep us posted on this experiment
I wonder what these tomatoes taste like and what their nutrient cont is compared to today's tomatoes?
Have we improved tomatoes or made them worse in order to mass produce them?
Worse, to mass produce, but varieties have been made better for home and small market gardeners. There is a definite push, now, for quality over quantity, in smaller spaces. Some newer OP and hybrid varieties have even more good stuff, like carotenoids, than those past.
But, it's an open question on how much better even those are, on the whole, compared to ones like this that he's growing, that have been lost to history. It's been realized pretty recently that lower producing wild greens would have offered enough Omega-3 and Omega-6 fats, with a good balance between them, to have allowed our inland ancestors to forego fish, and still develop well in tough times (when grazing animals, which also have healthier fats than factory farmed ones, were scarce). But, those we have bred for food don't cut it, and farming methods don't help, either. In the past, people would just selectively breed the local plants, so we had like hundreds of varieties of kales, spinaches, and so on, in North America, prior to the growth of big ag.
There are people out there trying to find and save some of these old plants, lest they go extinct, and studying them may well provide us with critical information that we could use for future plant breeding, as raw production and distribution become less and less of a problem (even today, almost all starvation and malnutrition is primarily political in nature, and we make enough food to feed billions of extra people).
That was longer than I was planning....
@@laurelsporter 100% agree on all points. I'd like to see nutrient content on fruits and vegetables. It used to be assumed good but you can't assume that any more. If we could blend the push for healthier nutrition content with e mass production of big ag, that would be the best combo for everyone, but it has to be pushed for.
@@laurelsporter Well quantity is needed if you consider the world's population and everything, older varieties might taste better but they don't grow as well normally so they end up being harder to grow and more expensive
@@bakachiki491 which is not a problem for (a) home gardeners, (b) small market gardeners, and (c) specialty regional farmers, if not others. As well, LEDs are allowing dense fast growing of common herbs and greens in smaller spaces, not using farmland (also often less water, synthetic fertilizer, pesticides, etc., at a minor added labor and power cost). It's really not a practical problem, like it may have been a few decades ago. As more greens, herbs, and small vegetables get grown not using farmland, it will be even less of one (which is good for other reasons, as traditional big age is not good for the land, but other methods reduce predictability).
Esoteric plants aren't going to displace the cheap cabbages and onions on produce shelves, even if some gain more popularity. They'll displace regular vegetables at your weekend markets, roadside stands, CSAs, and high-end grocers, just as things like different basils, purple carrots, and quality tomatoes do, already.
Depends on how you look at it. They usually contain more nutrients now but they are also modified to handle processing and to be larger and more uniform and all of those sacrifice the quality in flavor.
Have a question. Where did you get those yellow trays over on your growing stand? I’ve been trying to find some to replace mine and haven’t found any anywhere! Great video!! 😃
Love the new intro.
How r you going to grow the tomato plants inside?
You don’t need soil or at least not a lot. You need the bacteria in the soil to germinate the seeds. Put a little soil with your seeds and that should be enough to grow the bacteria the seed needs to grow.
I have been waiting so long for this video. Omg. Thank you.
I've grown tomato plants 8 feet+ tall in pots like that. You shouldn't have any problem with it.
Indoors?
@@celestekittie Yes, in my sun room.
Do you still sell these seeds?
Happy Holidays 🙋🏿
Do you folks have a catalogue tried looking for it was unsuccessful
Luke, happy holidays to you and family. I have a question you might be able to answer.
Is it possible to grow a tomato plant to the fruit stage indoor during our michigan winter. Have you ever tried and if so...what happened?
Oh my bad. That's what you're doing here. I was typing while the video was playing.
I'm having trouble with my indoor hydroponic tomatoes. I'm looking for some advice
Is your humidity at 35 - 50% so the seeds want to geminate?
I thought only indeterminate varieties were vines. All the determinate varieties I've ever grown were like bushes.
Will Dwyer you have to prune it to get it to grow tall
Kindly give me the content of water on how to germinate it??? Please thank you so much and God bless.
Will these also be .99 a packet still ?¿?😁
But, only one seed per packet!
Yay, I'm looking forward to seeing them grow :-)
I’d ♥️LOVE♥️ a few seeds.
Awesome!
are u keeping your citrus and indoor trees in the basement as well? just wondering thks.
well you can take cuttings from the germinated ones
Agree. They root within 2 days without any help whatsoever.
When are seeds available?ordered already for this yr.
They are still small so probably past growing dates for most people by the time he gets seeds from them. Maybe next year, unless he gets tomatoes and is able to plant them out in spring
Update please!
Luke, what camera and microphone do you use?
You said you have a few hundred seeds left and in a past video you said that you had about 20,000?
Try plant hormones and fulfill acid...We use that method for old cannabis seeds for better germination rates.
should I mix trifecta into water and water seedings with that, Or should I use fish fertilizer at 1/4 of the dosage and water it that way?
Hi MIgardener i need speramint seeds can you help me to find these kinde of seeds from trusted seller!? Thanc you in advance :)
heating pad underneath the plastic container. set on low.
Why dont u try aquaphonics
Just plant the suckers and you'll have more than enough clones.
You should clone them
I want one of those tomatoes
Mark Walker you and me too
Everybody does. LOL :-)
@@reesedundee8525 I'll tell you reese flow, its short sighted slugs like you that want something for nothing. You want something that someone took the time to find and bring back from extinction. That wants to enjoy the fruits of his hard labors without Big Business making millions off of his rare find.
It is short sighted people like you that have no dog in the fight making stupid demands and off handed slights only to cast shade and shadows on an stand up guy like Luke. Why don't go back to HomeDepot and buy your seeds from them and let a field scientist like Luke do his thing and keep your off handed remarks to your self Because NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU! You mental midget!
reese flow He’s probably seen things we can only imagine so I can’t blame him for being selfish.
I do hope he does share with a trusted group who can help him generate seeds so we can eventually enjoy this without making no one but him rich. I do believe he deserves to profit from these seeds.
He is not being selfish. he is trying to get enough seeds to sell it to people. He should not just give the seeds to everybody that wants them. it is still endangered plant. more seeds are needed to make sure that it doesn't disappear.
🙏❤️🙏
You cant rule out the "it just doesn't germinate" no matter what you do, reason. Right? If everything was 100%, the world would be a different place. E.g. No matter how much you do, it's impossible to make everything work.
Hi Midgardener just subed your channel ..... Heidi Marchant recommended your channel long story but here goes{{{{{ here in Beverly Hills we have a small local neighborhood gardening club {{ we are purely amateur.so we shall follow you through 2019 growing season {{ we have no fancy equipment raised beds by 3ft because kneeling is a no no... {{ replacement joints ah ah a few greenhouses a plenty of enthusiasm.. our club members consist of retired film actors actresses producers / directors etc... so you can guess where im coming from {{ with your help we our club would like to progress and further our selling capacity into vegetables on our stall at our farmers market most of the takings go to a charity for Children with Learning difficulties {{ i myself have suffered all my life with dyslexia.. so this charity is close to my heart{{{OK you may think if im dyslexic.. how am i typing out this comment ahhh.. my son has incorporated a spelling grammer correction program into my computor OK Midgardener...all the best for the New Year ....Edwin J Thompson..... Ed
so 87 year old seedling from seed. not an 87 year old tomato.... i dislike misleading titles. should be 'transplanting the seedlings from the 87 year old seeds!'
I dislike misleading titles unsub'ed by,by