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Originally Posted by gunrunner
I have grown tomatoes for many years but have never saved seeds. Was wondering, do you notice any loss of plant quality after growing saved seeds? Also, I just watched a vid on youtube where a guy took and tomato cut it in half and rubbed it on a paper towel to remove the seeds. Then he let the paper towel dry for several days then folded it up and put it in a plastic bag to save for next year. Is this a good method? Looks fairly easy to me, just wondered if it would produce a good plant this way?
Thanks
Mike
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Given the original question, it's worth mentioning that historically, one of the goals of saving seeds, in addition to simply having seeds to plant for the next cycle, is to improve plant quality by saving the seeds from the best plants. So actually, if you save seeds, you'll end up with better plant quality, providing you save seeds from the "best" plants, and you're not too restrictive in your definition of "best" so as to lose variety.