As long as you ferment them and then sanitize them with a mild bleach solution I don't think you'll have any problem. It's a good routine practice. ;)

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: How to treat seeds...

Thanks Dave, I just bookmarked the website. I'm growing quite a few different kinds of tomatoes and wanted to save the seeds from some. Some I only had a few seeds to begin with.

Will the plants grown next year from the saved seeds make for poor germination? Poor growth? Make the tomatoes more prone to getting bacterial speck?

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No, germination will not be poorer and growth will not be poorer and the tomatoes will not be more prone to getting Bacterial Speck. ( smile)

Over the years I've had more problems with the fungal foliage diseases than the bacterial ones and have almost always had to save seeds from plants with foliage diseases, as have almost everyone I know of.

I know some folks do a bleach after fermentation but I never have b'c personally I don't think it accomplishes that much, but that's just my own personal opinion.

And my just fermented seeds have been fine based on feedback. But of course it's your choice on whether or not you want to take that extra step.

Carolyn

Thanks so Carolyn. That's reassuring to hear. I was nervous I wouldn't be able to save any of the seeds.

HoosierCherokee's postings in a seed saving thread convinced me to use bleach even though I wonder some times if the bleach treatment is redundant since most of the water we use in the rinse is chlorinated. And, yes, I know there isn't much chlorine in the tap water. The gel protecting the seeds comes off quite readily with his "scrub" and it's for this reason that I use the bleach. I feel like the scrubbing can expose the seed more readily to any pathogens in the juice - pathogens that will be eliminated by the fermentation.