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Message: [QUOTE="Julian777ju, post: 242730, member: 17802"] I'd say research a little more maybe hand pollination might be a technique to consider. If having a specific variety is important to you. Im not going to say you shouldn't save seed because, your growing 2 different varieties. You can handpollinate so you see the actual flower get fertilized with pollen. Then cover the flower properly with a sort of bag, so no other bugs try to introduce more pollen. An once the tomato starts fruiting remove the bag. An label the branch there, so you know for sure from that specific tomato. Is what you crossed by hand, and if you want more seeds. Continue to hand pollinate flowers, an label the branch. an practice doing it til your successful practicing to pollinate a female tomato flower successfully. An you can do a lot of experiments. Cross a pure variety of one tomato type. That you know what it is. On YouTube they got a lot of hand pollination techniques for most plant species but not all of them. You might be able to find beans. Tomato lab is a YouTube channel with a old prehistoric video on crossing a tomato by hand its a good demonstration video. Only one i can find [/QUOTE]