Ruud Kleinpaste: Making the most of tomato seeds

Yep – it’s getting cooler – it means that tomatoes - from now on – will slow down. Seeing bumblebees will also slow down and disappear it might be a good idea to harvest your own tomato seeds for next year’s crop.

Note: Do not expect any miracles from the seeds found in F1 Hybrid varieties! They are unlikely to come “True to type”. In fact: it will be surprising how different the off-spring can be! F1 Hybrids are cross-pollinated plants with two very different “parents”. F1-s are bred to get an incredible vigour and superior yield. If you like certain F1 Hybrids: just purchase them and you’ll know what you’re going to get next year.

The so-called “Open-Pollinated” varieties are the ones that will give you a good chance of getting your favourites (such as Tigerella, Black Krim, Thessaloniki and all the “heirlooms”). 

This year I got some really nice tomatoes from a birding mate in Te Anau: It’s called Gardeners Delight. Open-Pollinated, juicy and sweet and the size of a rather large cherry tomato

This became my project for 2025-2026 season;

First of all I will try to grow plants from my current harvest

Second: I will buy a packet of Gardeners Delight from Kings Seeds as comparison with my own seed

Thirdly – if you’re lucky – I may send you some seeds as well, Jack! 

Cut the fully-ripe tomatoes open and scoop out the seeds.

Put them on some kitchen paper to remove as much of the sticky pulp as possible

“Fully Ripe” is NOW, before it gets too cold

Chuck the seeds in a strainer/colander under cold water to get most of pulp off the seeds – and dry them all over night; I usually try to clean them again the next day to remove even more of the sticky stuff. 

Then dry the seeds for two days on paper towel (out of direct sunlight)

Pack the seeds in paper envelopes and store in cool, dry area till sowing.

If you are in an area with relative humidity, it might pay to add some Silica Gel in the envelope to absorb the moisture and keep the seeds viable for a few years

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
B DNA is up for sale. Yep, that really popular
company for DNA testing twenty three and meters has filed
for bankruptcy, which means the DNA results of fifteen million
customers are potentially out for sale. Our textbit paulstine House
has the details. Paul, should we be worried?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Is it just first of all, isn't it just like
a dystopian line to say? It's kind of like something
out of the Black Mirror episodes on Netflix? Yeah, you know, yeah,
what are we going to do? It's actually DNA is
for sale And it's crazy that that is the major
asset of that company, right, Yeah, that is the thing
that they have and they sell. And here's where it

(00:52):
gets crazier, Jack. Not only have they you know, sequenced
the DNA, you could actually opt and I guess you
still can opt to actually have them store your saliva sample,
your physical saliva sample. Yeah. So people are now and
on the advice of very big figures. New York's Attorney

(01:13):
General basically said to customers it might be time to
take action to safeguard your data and people are doing that.
They're going to the website, they are trying to delete
their data and trying to get them to remove their
samples from I don't know the vault or the cold
storage or whatever they're stored in, but the website's been

(01:33):
going down. And there's a really interesting point that one
of the lawmakers in California who put in some of
the US's most strict privacy laws, right, he's made a
very interesting point. He's that great. I love that we
have the privacy laws, but they are now being tested
because if you've got a company that's filed for bankruptcy, Yeah,
what happens if the numbers of employees are cut? Who

(01:58):
is there to actually help process the electronic delete request?
But who's going to be there to actually physical In
this case, there's physical person data that you need to
destroy it as well. And if you think about all
these people going to this website to delete their data,
can a company actually handle tens of thousands of requests

(02:21):
in a couple of days, a couple of weeks like
whatever it might look like. Because I don't know if
you know this, there are some really old systems around there.
If you ever unsubscribe from an email and you think,
why am I still getting emails? Or it says it's
going to take seven to ten business days. Sometimes it's
because that involves an actual person getting maybe an email
themselves that says, go and delete Jack Tame from this database,

(02:44):
this database, this database.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
So I'm not saying that is how twenty three and
meters is, but like you can.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Imagine, yeah what I really get it like it could
be chaos, definitely. Yeah, it's it is a bit kind
of dy stopian. Ah, and you can just imagine for
insurance companies or anyone else how bad matteriformation might be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, Hey, the AI note taker otter, which I've

(03:10):
used a little bit that it gets used by companies
and meetings and that kind of thing, you know, to
listen to the conversations and write up notes, but now
has opinions.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
It does. I mean, it's very handy. It takes notes.
I don't know about you, but people, I'm not very
good at taking notes. Yeah, you know, I always forget
that you're supposed to do something, but the AI helps
with that. But it's been listening and yes, it's been deciding,
and it's been analyzing data and otter AI is now
slowly rolling out some new tools that some of these
are kind of creepy. So you can actually summon the

(03:41):
AI kind of during the meeting because it's there. You
see it in yeah participants list, so you can kind
of ask it like Siri to do things now like
send an email or look up meeting information and things
that it has in its database. Wouldn't it be great
if you were like, hey, AI, didn't Jack actually do
that thing he said he was going to do in
the last meeting?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
No?

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Oops? But also this is the one that got me.
It also cares and do live sales coaching. So you're
on the call and you know, there's you Jack, the salesperson.
You know you're doing your best pitch, and the ALI
is chirping and giving you messages and things saying, actually, Jack,
you shouldn't be talking so much. Actually Jack, remember here's

(04:24):
the line you should be saying. Yeah. And it also
gives you information on how to handle complaints. Isn't that funny?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
That's amazing?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, it's so ridiculous. I mean it's great, but it's
ridiculous and scary and terrifying and cool all exactly the
same yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's like a way to sum it that.
Thank you, Paul. That's our textbot Paul Stenhouse.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
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