Ok, question. I'm trying to save seeds from my amazing tomatoes this year and I did spend a lot of time looking up how to do it and then still biffed it thanks to improper planning and many of the seeds appeared to have sprouted a tiny bit.
However, I planted two of the most sprouted-looking dried seeds just to see if they'd still grow and today I find that they are in fact growing!
Is this just because it has only been a few weeks since they dried, so they were still alive? Will they be too dead to revive next year? I'm going to start again with new tomatoes regardless but if these other seeds are still good I'd love to be able to add them to my collection and the swap. I just don't have enough experience to know if they'd still be viable next spring.
The "sprout" bit is so tiny that I had to use a microscope to really see that it was actually the beginnings of a tiny white root. I don't know if that info helps, haha.