rxkeith wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:04 am i gave up on the 2003 uncle steve seeds.

bboomer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:02 pm After six weeks some Siberian Velican tomato seeds finally germinated. I put them, along with all the others which were all between three and six inches tall, into my cold frame. We got a cold snap and I am afraid that the little guys didn't make it. Maybe they go in the "never" time frame.
Not to worry, my babies are back inside during this durn Wisconsin cold spell.

Shule wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:48 am About 75 days, maybe. Sometimes they sprout later than that, but that's about when I stop waiting, if I seed them at my usual time. I try to select for varieties that don't take that long to germinate, though.

TX-TomatoBug wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:50 pm

Shule wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:48 am About 75 days, maybe. Sometimes they sprout later than that, but that's about when I stop waiting, if I seed them at my usual time. I try to select for varieties that don't take that long to germinate, though.

@Shule, 75 DAYS for tomato seeds? I ask because I'm trying to sprout old seed that is likely a lost family heirloom which my uncle (now passed) used to grow in KY. First batch planted nearly 4 weeks ago, 2nd batch 3 weeks ago, nothing up yet. If you waited for 75 days, I will keep up the hope!

pepperhead212 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:07 am I must be impatient. It's been "only" 8 days since I planted the tomato seeds, and only those two had nothing sprouted yet - Big Cheef and Daniel Burson, out of 22 varieties. This morning I took my olive fork - something I keep in my seedling room to carefully dig up seeds, or seedlings, carefully checked them. This time I dug up the seeds in those 4 pots that I didn't have any visible sprouts in, and found a sprouted seed in one of the pots of each of those two varieties - the other two pots had unsprouted seeds in, for both varieties. So I left the barely sprouted seeds in those pots, the other two pots I left the seeds in, but also dug up some "extra" seedlings, from some similar varieties, and planted those, and labeled those. If those really slow seeds eventually come up, I might dig those up and plant them - depends on how slow they are! And these two are new seeds this year - not some old ones, which did just fine. And most of the seedlings have their first true leaves forming already, after just 8 days.