This year I had about 6 containers and planted about 14 plants in the yard. My calcium tests showed mainly that calcium had little effect on end rot, but I think the watering regimen was probably the most important. Basically if there is too much or too little, it's bad for end rot. I think the containers exaggerate this here in Tennessee: they get so hot, come June, they dry out quickly, Oh well. Anyway I learned that calcium application doesn't rescue end rot in the containers.
My yard is so shaded by grown trees now that there is almost no good space for growing tomatoes. A few plants wound up being in full shade almost all day. They grew less and some never even set fruit.
Although my 55a7 x pBTD F1(2019) cross was a failure to obtain atv/atv + gs/gs (due to their linkage), I planted a few F2s anyway mainly in case I got a new purple or other variety that seemed nice. So one of them does not have atv, but is nice: it has gf/gf and gs/gs and is not y/y. It looks and tastes great. The striping looks good on the not-y/y background - very deep orangey red stripes vs the green . I like this better than gs on the y/y "pink" background e.g. pBTD. This F2 is likely y/+. I saved seeds because I liked it so much. My shorthand for the 55a7 x pBTD F1(2019) cross is "55p". So I will call this "55-Stripe" - has a nice ring to it.
