Thanks for the info I have a ton of heirloom tomato plants that are currently growing like crazy here in SE Ohio. I do want to harvest both varities seeds.
SE Ohio is a great Tom growing location. In fact, Ohio, Pennsy, and NJ are an enviable tomato growing area for many.
Climate is the main reason and many of the Great Heirlooms have come from this region.
Since you are in Ohio and into Heirlooms, you might like to do a “search” on a fellow named Ben Quissenberry(sp)?
He was one of the greatest Tomato seed collectors.
He was a deeply spiritual Ohio man who collected MANY of the best heirloom varieties available today. Without him, many of these great toms would have gone extinct.
At the age of 90, he was still self-handling a garden of about 500 tom plants.
He died at the age of about 96 in the mid 1980s.
Every time I taste a Brandywine Sudduth or Stump Of The World, I think of and thank the man for the flavor he saved for the world.
Interestingly, he did not save seeds by fermenting. He simply smoothed the tomato goop and seeds on to plywood sheets and let the Sun have its way with them for a few days.
JJ61