Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

How to save tomato seeds for next planting?

Fully ripe disease-free tomatoes are the best candidates for seed saving. Saving tomato seeds entails nothing more elaborate than squeezing a bit of the seed-gel mix out of the cavity of a tomato fruit into a glass, then air drying them, but fermentation is a better route.

Place seed in a bottle or jar. Fill the container with a couple inches of water. The seed will start fermenting by the next day.
The seed gel contains inhibitors that keep the seeds from sporting while they’re still inside the fruit, but it’s easy to leach and ferment these inhibitors away by adding some water to the seed-gel mix.

Shake the bottle each day and the pulp will come to the top and good seed will go to the bottom.

After three days the pulp and bad seed can be drained off, and leaving the good seed that went to the bottom. Rinse the seed and place on cloth or paper towels to dry.
How to save tomato seeds for next planting?

Monday, December 01, 2008

Durian Fruit

Durian Fruit
Durian (Durio zibethinus) is one of many tropical fruits native to South East Asia. The capsule fruit is usually large (up to 4 kg) and is characterized by a green to brownish skin fully covered by numerous thick spikes.

Its edible aril is soft and creamy with white or yellowish color. The aril has a sweet taste and strong dominated by fruity (estery) and unique sulfury notes. Due to its unique and highly characteristic flavor, durian is deemed as a delicacy and even regarded as the King of Fruits by local people.
Durian
Durian belongs to family Bombacaceae and it chromosome number is 2n = 56. It is a large evergreen tree. Flowers are white or pink in color and arranged in cymes. Fruit is a large, spherical, ovoid, spiny, green to yellow capsule that split into five valves.

Seeds are large and covered with a sweet, puppy, cream-colored, edible aril with one to six seeds per cell. Durian grows well in hot, humid climates with high rainfall. It prefers sandy loam soil. Seed and vegetative means are used for propagation.

This fruit can reduce lethality of alcohol. In India leaves and roots used in a prescription for fever. Leaves also used in medicinal bath during fever. For fruit walls used externally for skin disease.
Durian Fruit

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