The EASIEST Way to Grow Tomato Seedlings

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All you need is a pot, soil, and one tomato. Don't believe me? Just watch...

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[Ken-fwdh]

You may be interested to know this. My wife is a Philippina her family back home are farmers She did this and I was derisive.  I was using commercial packet seeds - she used a ripe tomato from the market. Hers' are nearly twice the size of mine and first to flower. I had to eat crow, if you think about it this must be how propagation happens naturally. Nature doesn't dry seeds and put them in packets either.

[karenthesheepgirl]

A couple of yrs ago I gave a pig to a guy and a month or so after she was gone I noticed several tomato plants near her area about 8 or 9 inches high with blooms. I dug them up and planted in potting soil with some compost from my pile and wrapped a piece of fencing around it. it is producing beautiful cherry tomatoes like crazy. she left a little parting gift.

[WhiteCatShirataki]

This technique changes everything! Never in a million years would I have thought of doing something so simple like burying sliced tomatoes in a pot of soil. I was taught seeds needed to go through a "cold" spell before they would germinate. You have obviously proven that is wrong (at least when it comes to tomatoes). I am so glad you published this information. I will be passing this tip along to others. THANK YOU!!!

[mr.heineken]

I thought it was B.S. until my wife tried it, damn those things grow fast, I got 8 seedlings from one almost rotten slice! Now that's efficient Awesome!.

[anthonytomasiello]

I did it last year with heirloom tomatoes and I had tomatoes the size of grapefruit. Best internet suggestion ever. Thanks

[leehall]

I have been growing tomatoes for 45 years now and I see a few of problems, with this method. If the tomato you use is a hybrid, like most grocery store tomatoes, it will not grow true, from seed. In other words, the plant you get will be one of the parent varieties of the tomato you used. This may or may not produce a desirable plant, with good fruit. It is a role of the dice.

It may be possible to grow tomatoes, in very small containers, in northern climes. This won't work, where there are hot summers. I would recommend using a container that is at least 15 gallons. Muck buckets, (most of which are 17 gallons) with drainage holes drilled in the bottom, WILL work, if you are very attentive with watering, avoiding under-watering or over-watering. The problem with small containers is that you can water a plant, in a container that is less than 10 gallons in the morning and if it turns out to be a very hot day, your plant may be wilted, by the afternoon. I know this, from personal experience.

Regular potting soil does not hold water well. You will need some Pro-Mix or similar growing medium, in order to get decent results. When I was using containers, I used Pro-Mix with compost and worm castings added. After quite a few years of experimenting with container growing, I came to the conclusion that it just isn't worth my time and effort. I have since started growing almost exclusively in straw bales, which work better than containers, natural ground, or raised beds, when properly prepared.

[vtmom]

I really like the brevity of your video! Thank you! Also, it is really cool that you had successive pots with tomato seedlings, etc.

[dixiruzicka]

Great way to sprout a bunch at a time!!! Way easier than separating the seeds, letting them go to yuck, drying them out on newspaper and then planting the newspaper in strips. We have "oxheart" heirloom tomatoes and we so something similar. We bury the overripe throughout the season, then before it frosts, we cover them and the vines in about 3 inches of dirt and straw outside for the winter and 75% of those make it to next Spring. (Volunteer tomatoes zone 6) Easy is best!!! Thanks for sharing! Love the crocs with socks...especially for gardening. :)

[gardengoddess]

I do something similar. I slice a tomato at the end of the season and place a slice on a coffee filter. I mark the name and let them dry out. In the spring I set the filter in the ground lightly cover with dirt. Sometimes I cut the filter in half or 4 pieces, depending on how many plants I want. Then thin out the weak plants. So easy and never fails.

[texashillcountryphotograph]

I have 7 tomato plants on my apartment deck, and I planted them the same way. Super easy. Used organic vine tomatoes for the slices.

[KittyMama]

I just throw my tomatoes out the back door all fall and winter, straight into a seedling bed next to the door, or even just dump them on the compost.  Next spring, dig up the strong seedlings and plant in the garden.

[roaddawgsolutions]

Such a great idea. I did this a few weeks ago and now I am ready to weed out seedlings and transfer into other pots! Thanks for the tip!!!

[jerichowsm]

now thats what i like to see, easy simple and straight to the point thanks for sharing, cheers mate

[rhbb]

Even lazier method I unintentionally "did":
Removed the dying plants last year in early November and while doing so some of the half-rotten last fruits on them just fell on the ground and I was too lazy to remove them, so while weeding/hoeing the bed the last time before winter, I simply half-dug them under and forgot about them. Fast forward to mid-May this year and hundreds of volunteers pop up all over the place!
I ended up replanting a couple of them to some remaining space and they actually ended up fruiting, they were a couple weeks behind the ones I pre-started indoors though
Also don't remember which cultivars they stem from or whether the mother plants were F1s or not, but regardless all the volunteers produce some sort of cherry tomatoes

[chriscasey]

I have often cut an over ripe tomato and found that the seeds had actually germinated inside to uncut tomato! That would give this idea a big head start! Nice tip especially, for apartment dwellers or folks with tiny yards. The more composted manure the better the flavor of your tomatoes!

[gateway]

Thank you, now I can amaze my kids and wife to how smart I am. I of course will give you full credit especially if it doesn't work! Truly, this is a fantastic idea, don't know why I never put it together. I always have to pull baby tomato plant that come up after tomatoes get left on the ground.

[jakepennyii]

I put an overipe tomato that I couldn't eat into one of my potted houseplants for fertilizer. Several months later I totally forgot about the tomato and suddenly dozens of mystery seedlings came out randomly in that one spot, and I had no Idea what they were, and they were quite yellow so I plucked a few of them out and stuck em in water to see what would come of them. They started growing new tiny roots from the stem and are beginning to bud new leaves. That is until I remembered the old tomato I tossed in there last fall, and finally identified them. I will try to pot them once their root system gets more developed and more recovered from being pulled out.

[mrgruffy]

Thanks for the vid.  I like this method as it is Nature's way of reproducing.  No need for sterilized commercial potting soil, and fertilizer.  I started some tomato plants in small seedling pots during the Spring of 2015 using only the soil from my dirt and compost pile.  It took several weeks for them to germinate.  Even then, they just set there with only the starter leaves.  Heck, I just transplanted them to my garden just to see what would happen.  After a week or two, they started putting on leaves.  Then took off growing rapidly into great plants.  I had more tomatoes than I needed.  I planted some seeds in pots this year, and am stll waiting after about 3 weeks.  While working in my compost and dirt pile, I found 4 healthy volunteer plants from the partly rotted tomatoes that I just threw out on the pile last summer.  I moved them to my elevated garden. I feel that they will do good after we here in North Missouri get more sun and less clouds and cold.

[athens]

great video, thats how they should be, short and sweet, extra nice touch, having the two extra pots to show the growth, subscribed just by watching this one vid, thank you :)

[elbaperez]

Thank you much for your "quick and dirty tip"!! This is gonna save me a lot of time compared to all the other you tube videos I have watched on the same subject! It is the easiest and quickest way to start tomato seedlings! May God bless you for sharing your knowledge with others!