Please find for sale 40+  Cyphomandra Betacea seeds better known as Tamarillo. Also known as Tree Tomato,Tomate de Arbol, tomate andino, tomate serrano, blood fruit, tomate de yuca, tomate de españa, sachatomate, berenjena and tamamoro. 

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As part of the Solanum family, Tamarillos are related to tomatoes. Unlike shop bought toms, Tamarillos are tangy and variably sweet, with a bold and complex flavor, and may be compared to kiwifruit, tomato, guava, or passion fruit. Their fruit ripens in early autumn after regular tomatoes have finished providing useful continuity of cropping.

Unlike regular tomatoes, Tamarillos are normally grown as perennials  - in colder parts grown in containers and brought inside during winter.


Germination Guide

  • Soak the seeds in a cup of water for 24 hours.
  • Prepare a light well draining compost mix  - ideally 50% sieved compost, 50% horticultural sand or vermiculite.
  • Sow the seeds thinly and cover with about 5mm of the compost
  • Ensure the compost is kept moist but not wet
  • Keep at between 20-25c. 
  • Seeds should germinate within 4 to 6 weeks
  • Prick out and pot on as required



Olly's General Guide to Seed Sowing!

I love sowing seeds and it runs in the family - dad, granddad and finally my great-granddad for whom the hobby helped him get over his experiences in the Great War. I still get a big kick when I see the first seedliing poking through from a new plant that I have never sown before or been successful at. However, even the most experienced gardeners draw "blanks" from time to time. Whilst I sow all the seeds that I sell so I know that they are viable, some are trickier than others and problems can arise so here are some tips to make "blanks" few and far between:

1) Dont Rush! Tempting though it is when that packet arrives in the post to simply bung the seeds in some compost!

2) Google and Youtube are your friends! Take some time so see the methods other people use to germinate the seed. 

3) Think Nature! What conditions do seeds face? For example a seed from a tropical plant will fall to the warm, wet and dark jungle floor. A seed from the mountains of Europe will fall to the floor in Autumn, then have to endure months of freezing temperatures before germinating in the spring. So as growers, what we are trying to do is to simulate the conditions that the seeds will naturally experience and there are plenty of tricks that can be done to short cut the processes somewhat.

4) Good compost pays dividends . The best investment you can make is to purchase three bags - one of potting compost, one of vermiculite and one of horticultural sand. With these three bags I can make up whatever soil type a particular seed likes (although for most seeds I find a 50/50 mix of compost and vermiculite works just fine) 

5) Rot is your enemy. The single biggest danger to seed germination is rot - either before or after "damping off" the seeds germinate. To reduce the risk, ensure you have good free draining soil mix and that it is moist but not wet. Unless the seed variety absolutely requires it I prefer NOT to cover my seeds trays with plastic bags, Whilst germination is often faster this way, it greatly increases the risk of rot. I prefer to place my seed trans inside a watertight plastic tray and water from the bottom - airflow over the surface reduces the risk.



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