I've never had much success with seeds. Whenever I tried in the past, after several weeks of cossetting, the fledgling plants would attract the curiosity of children or pets and end up seperated from their pots.
Earlier this year I bought a tray of mixed tomato seedlings. Only two plants two grew well. One was a variety of Roma tomatoes. What was exceptional about them, was that I did not have to pick them slightly before they were perfectly ripe in order to get them before whatever else fancied eating them. Perhaps this should be a concern. Why doesn't anything else want to eat them? I decided to block this concern; I was so pleased to find a non cherry size tomato that I could pick intact.
The others were striped green tomatoes. I ignored them for a while, waiting for them to ripen. Then I remembered that one of the varieties in the pack had been green; so I could wait forever for it to turn red. They turned out to be delicious and very sweet.
Unfortunately I couldn't find either type in the nurseries. If I wanted more, the only solution was to take seeds from the tomatoes I still had. The early stages went very well. I soaked the seeds and sieved them to get rid of the gooey stuff, then planted them in small pots. When they grew two sets of leaves I trasplanted them into larger pots.
Since then there has been little development. I don't have any idea what to do next.
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