Sean's Yellow Dwarf - Red Mutant?

[Lee]

Sean's Yellow Dwarf looks like this.


Compact, regular leaf, smooth round, yellow fruits.
Always very consistent in size and pretty prolific in fruit.
As someone else mentioned, the yellow is recessive, so once selected, it doesn't switch back to dominant red without a cross/mixed seed occurring.

This first came out of my co-worker's garden in 07 or 08 I think, and I've always had consistent fruits from that original selection.

Lee

[Scooty]

Originally Posted by Lee

Sean's Yellow Dwarf looks like this.


Compact, regular leaf, smooth round, yellow fruits.
Always very consistent in size and pretty prolific in fruit.
As someone else mentioned, the yellow is recessive, so once selected, it doesn't switch back to dominant red without a cross/mixed seed occurring.

This first came out of my co-worker's garden in 07 or 08 I think, and I've always had consistent fruits from that original selection.

Lee

The first two traits are quite true of this plant, whatever it happens to be. Compact, regular leaf. Not tree like.

If it's a cross, the F2 fruits should show differentiation, even if its not color. There should be plenty of other traits to be able to determine whether its a cross. Otherwise stability would suggest an mutation, cause as you pointed out, yellow shouldn't go back without some other confounding factor.

I'm sure if Craig decides to grow it out, he can do the direct comparison. I'd love to solve the mystery if just for the sake of my own curiosity.

[Scooty]

There's a clone still producing. All the single-bossom fruit look similar to your picture, albeit with a different color. I probably should buy a SYD to compare. I'm curious about the taste comparison.

[Al@NC]

That's a decent looking tomato, I can only think of Sweet Scarlet as being a possibility but the leaf type is all wrong. You said you have regular leaf and victory describes SSD as:

"The vigorous, dwarf, rugose, potato leaf plants produce a heavy yield of medium to medium large sized (six to sixteen ounces) oblate, smooth red fruit, possessing a superb, intense, complex flavor – one of the very best flavored of all of the "Dwarf Tomato Project" varieties. "


Al

[Scooty]

Originally Posted by Al@NC

That's a decent looking tomato, I can only think of Sweet Scarlet as being a possibility but the leaf type is all wrong. You said you have regular leaf and victory describes SSD as:

"The vigorous, dwarf, rugose, potato leaf plants produce a heavy yield of medium to medium large sized (six to sixteen ounces) oblate, smooth red fruit, possessing a superb, intense, complex flavor – one of the very best flavored of all of the "Dwarf Tomato Project" varieties. "


Al

It's a mystery for Craig to figure out. If I recall our conversation correctly, he liked the taste, so that's good. Of the 30+ DTP I grew, this "mutant" is probably the most productive by weight and number of fruit. I wish I had a true-to-form Sean's Yellow Dwarf to compare, because I'm curious if it would share that behavior. It's also probably the best tasting dwarf red next to Sweet Scarlet, though that won't be consistent if it turns out to be a cross.

Incidentally, Sweet Scarlet is next to this "suspect," about 3' over, and the foliage pattern is naturally completely different.