Big Beef quad cot

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

Have never seen a quad cot seedling until I was just watering my seedings and noticed this big beef quad cot seedling. I also had 2 tri cot New Big Dwarf seedlings a few weeks ago which I did not save and will not be growing this big beef either but thought I would share.

Craig

[travis]

Go Big, that is wild! Are two of the cotyledons slightly lower on the stem than the other two?

I've grown thousands of seedlings and see tricots every year. Some are true tricots with the cotyledons spread out in three different directions. Some are actually split-cots with a single cotyledon splitting to form two petals from one, so there appears to be a tricot, but in my opinion doesn't rank the same.

This year is the first year I ever saw a quad-cot, and it was on a dwarf seedling, and rather than two cotyledons splitting thus forming four seed petals, it actually had four separate, equally sized cotelydons with two of them slightly lower on the stem than the other two, and all four pointing in their own direction.

The thing about this plant though is that it seems retarded in growth rate compared to the other sibling dwarf plants growing under identical conditions. Also the stems are totally without anthocyanin, so it appears similar to the ms gene, green stem seedlings you sometimes see when growing out hybrid plum tomatoes like those from NCSU high crimson lines. It makes me wonder if this one will be a male sterile plant.

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

The seed was just planted last Saturday so it has not fully fanned out to absorb the sunlight but it appears to be all on the same level.

Craig