More 55a7 x pBTD F1s

Another 55a7 x pBTD F1 fruit.   I now see the stripe allele is not fully recessive - you can see striping, just barely, but not nearly as strong as in the pBTD parent.
Below is an example of pBTD (Pink Berkeley Tie Dye); image is copied from the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds website.   

Follow-up on the y gene

y =  yellow epidermis.  This year I grew two F5 plants for 46A2.3. Turns out one is "pink", i.e. clearly y/y, but the other is not "pink", i.e. normal reddish skin.  Therefore the F4 parent (46A2.3-F4) must have been y/+!  Saved seeds of 46A2.3 F5 y/y.  (see fruit on the right, below.)

46A2.3 F5 fruit:   y/y "pink" is on the right.

2019 notes, continued

• Remember to disinfect all buckets.  A few plants had wilt, etc.  Mostly late onset except for that RT/GDZ F1.

More pics of tomatoes:
• RTxGDZ F1, ripe.
• White Beauty heirloom.  Good taste.  Very pale yellow inside.
• 55a7 x pBTD F1.  This is clearly an F1, lacking the strong purple of 55a7 and lacking the striping of pBTD.   Note inside the fruit is gf/gf and, I think maybe has the bicolor phenotype - see how dark red the center is (the columella). !  I think Berkeley Tie Dye has this gene based on various web pictures, though it is not evident in the various Pink Berkeley Tie Dye pictures I can find.

WB, Flamme, and a red cherry for comparison (28d3)

Notes on the 2019 tomato season

Welp, it was not a banner year for backyard production.   Sometimes you have to learn things by making mistakes.

The late start had a definite impact on productivity.    There was no ripe fruit until about the 2nd week in July; meanwhile, the heat-induced blossom drop took a toll when the plants were getting going.  The big disappointment for me though, was that the high-calcium fertilizer did not help reduce end rot.  In fact, it might have been worse than last year.   So next year I'll try ordinary fertilizer and just try supplementing with calcium.

I think my soil mix does not hold water very well, so I had to tweak my new timer drip-watering setup to water like every 6 hours or so.

Next year:  put a brick or 2 in the bottom of each bucket for stability.
Also, put posts in place while filling with soil - NOT after planting!  You need to get them in deep and stable. 

end rot on Flamme.

RT x GDZ F1 update

Well, disease is taking over the RT x GDZ #16 F1 despite my earlier pruning.   Not too surprising.  This may impede ability to assess fruit phenotype fully.  It's a bit confusing.  The first two fruit to form and grow are clearly ultra-fasciated as per the unique RT and GDZ phenotype.  In addition there was the megabloom from the last post; that fruit is not growing much.    However, there is another fruit that has an intact, flattened ribbed phenotype a la Costoluto Genovese.  And the newer flower to form seem modest-sized and have a modest number of petals, e.g. about 6.   So I am wondering if the first fruit were "megablooms", but the more typical fruit phenotype will actually be less fasciated than either parent.  That would be very interesting and suggest partial complementation, e.g. two separate loci.

Not ultra-fasciated, just ribbed and a little catfaced

Sick plant

Rest of patio tomatoes doing OK

RT x GDZ F1 fruiting despite disease

Looks like the RT x GDZ #16 F1 produces fruit that are clearly fasciated like either parent was, suggesting either that it is monogenic or was self-pollinated.    Here are an early stage fruit and a separate, impressive megabloom.

A new disease - bacterial canker?

My RT x GDZ F1 plant in 5 gal bucket seemed to have a unique disease/condition not seen in any of the other plants.    Browning of leaf margins ("marginal scorch"), mainly, on older leaves at the end of branches, and without profound wilting.  This is different than the wilt I've often seen in my garden bed tomatoes.  The leaf appearance matches images of what is most often called "bacterial canker" via online research. 

I isolated the pot from the other plants and around June 15 I trimmed off all of the affected branches, using an old scissors I was discarding anyway so as not to contaminate other plants.   Here are before and after photos.