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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Mid-Ohio
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I found some very old seed from an off-type plant that came out as a big red beefsteak back in Ohio, and for three years I have been trying to get a plant to grow and give me a fruit -- a problem for me here in Florida with heat, disease and hurricanes.
Anyway, with some frost protection for a month I just got two little fruits to ripen, and they ripened up as yellow shoulder, red bottom Bicolors. The original seed was probably a labeled bicolor heirloom but I didn't record what it was when I saved the seed. So assuming the original off-type fruit was a heterozygous F1 red beefsteak, doing a Punnet square on a single trait dominant red gene tells me that what I have is a homozygous recessive F2 plant, and I'm not going to get a big red out of the seed I am fermenting now, correct? |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hampton, Virginia
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Since you have been growing them for 3 years; I would not call them an F1.
It could be a Lucky Cross. I year back, I of my Lucky Cross Plant produced a Big/ mostly Red Tomato. Very different from the others on the same Plants.
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