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Your plants are ahead of mine but I'm looking forward to tasting these! ![]() |
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This could be a spontaneous somatic mutation, like Yellow Riesentraube was one branch of yellow fruit on a red fruited regular Riesentraube plant. If it were segregating, the entire plant would all show the same fruit type.
I suspect your saved seeds from both will give you the same color fruits as they are now when grown out. If that's the case, then the orange mutation plant is yours to name! Now that's exciting.
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Has anybody else reported red fruit on their Sugar Drops? I am saving seed from both red and yellow to grow next year. If the red fruit seed grow all red next year, will they be considered a new variety? |
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No one else has reported this. The somatic mutation is out of the question if you say you have 5 plants of this and they are all doing the orange thing. Now I think that its just more complete ripening. So no renaming needed.
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If it were just one branch that had the red ones that would clearly indicate a somatic mutation, but you say you have both red and orange and red ones randomly all over a plant and you see the same with other plants as well. In terms of genetic instability I'm not sure I even understand the random distribution of red and orange ones on a plant as being related to genetic instability but perhaps someone else here has some ideas about that. Somatic mutations are very rare so it would not be reasonable to consider that the random red ones were due to individual somatic mutations, at least IMO/ Carolyn
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