Interesting to me

[eyolf]

last year, Delectations of Tomatoes sent a free gift packet. Dale called it "Unknown Evil Olive Off- type"

Believing it to be an F2, I grew it, noticed it matched description, but tasted good enough to gorge myself on them while puttering in the garden. I fermented a few seeds and tried the now F3 to see what I might see.

One is a rather diminutive little gal, but we have been very dry and it hasn't had as much water as perhaps it would like. But it also has a white stripe up the stem, and the suckers and leaf petioles from that stripe are similarly chlorophyll free.
A few leaves in other parts exhibit 'splatter" of white

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I can't wait to see what any fruit look like

[MissS]

So you are saying that the entire branch hasn't any green on it? I would save seed from the fruits on this portion of the plant as well as the other and see if there is any difference in the offspring.

[AKgardener]

very different and interesting indeed

[eyolf]

So I saved seeds from the albino fruits on the albino branches.
The albino mutation is very likely permanent...and likely not desirable. They are not particularly vigorous.

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The puny albinos on lower right, the vigorous normies upper left.[

[MissS]

They don't seem to have any green to them at all. I wonder if this will change when they get their true leaves. Right now they don't appear to have enough chlorophyll to support them.

[bower]

Wow, that's a very dramatic effect.
It makes perfect sense, though, if there's no chlorophyll at all. I hope they get some green in the true leaves.

[TomatoNut95]

Whoa, a true albino tomato plant?????? That's cool!! I hope they survive, but true they're weak due to lack of chlorophyll. I've grown Splash of Cream before and they're not big fluffy plants, although beautiful.

[Frosti]

very interesting!

[eyolf]

I don't think any are going to make it; they seem to be burning up the seed energy stores, then failing.

[Frosti]

I don't think any are going to make it; they seem to be burning up the seed energy stores, then failing.

sorry to hear this, but it's not unexpected. Are they in a seed starting mix? Maybe those albinos need more nutrients. If they're gonna die anyway, I'd try a mild liquid fertilizer.