Orange rapture tomatoes

[poly]

Thanks for the offer Chris, but I do seem to have seeds for Mini Orange after all, from a very lovely Lady in Canada. I think I'll stick with Orange Rapture F2 for this season. I've potted up 6 little seedlings, still on their seed leaf, long way to go!

[poly]

Interestingly the plants I kept have developed into two types of quite different plants. I thought at first it might be soil imbalance but then I noticed one module has both types of seedlings.

[Newbiegrower1970]

The last pack had a type listed. Royal star although from googling royal star is red but they grow an orange star too

[poly]

I wonder if they register a name to cover a type or style of tomato rather than an individual variety?

I had a search but couldn't find an Orange Star cherry tomato but did come across a Oranjestar.

[Newbiegrower1970]

Sakata's new orange cherry TOV shows strong performance

[poly]

Cheers, that's amazing cropping!

[poly]

The first flowers are just starting to open on the earliest of the tall types. The smaller growing types remain stunted although flower buds are forming. I wonder if these have been bred to have faults in their genes to become evident in their offspring?




Chris if you spot this, I know you said the plants you grew on were quite similar, but did you have any off type seedlings that you noticed?

[Chris11]

I wonder if these have been bred to have faults in their genes to become evident in their offspring?

Unlikely to have had faults bred intentionally like that. Much more likely to be genes which contribute in a positive way to the F1 characteristics and/or hybrid vigour when they exist as a single copy in the F1, but are detrimental (deleterious) if they exist in one of the F2 variants that happen to have 2 copies of the same gene.

And I've now found out that the Orange Rapture tomatoes are definitely a variety called Oranjestar F1: https://sakatavegetables.com/vegetab...te/oranjestar/