• Different colors on the same truss?

Posted: **Thu May 29, 2025 8:32 pm**

Weirdness. Big Hill, orange with slight green shoulders. One fruit turned RED on the same truss. Never seen anything like this before? Common? Unusual? Jagodka gene peeked out??

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Posted: **Thu May 29, 2025 11:38 pm**

Big Hill is a bi color and the colors can be orange to red orange to just off red in the plants I have had before. Good ones are very fruity which really surprised my husband.

Posted: **Fri May 30, 2025 2:01 am**

TerraCayda wrote: ↑Thu May 29, 2025 8:32 pm Weirdness. Big Hill, orange with slight green shoulders. One fruit turned RED on the same truss. Never seen anything like this before? Common? Unusual? Jagodka gene peeked out??20250528_180946.jpg

It's very uncommon, but I have seen it. I have a tomato that went through a multi-color cycle, settling on red in the end (I believe it started green, went to yellow, then orange, and then red). Its parent was supposed to be Cherokee Lime, but it was actually a bicolor instead.

It was soft with the first color change, I believe.

I've read a description or two of a tomato that is supposed to be like this. The vast majority of tomatoes don't resemble this behavior at all, though, or if they do, they just have a slight color change when they get extra ripe.

Posted: **Fri May 30, 2025 2:20 pm**

Shule wrote: ↑Fri May 30, 2025 2:01 am
TerraCayda wrote: ↑Thu May 29, 2025 8:32 pm Weirdness. Big Hill, orange with slight green shoulders. One fruit turned RED on the same truss. Never seen anything like this before? Common? Unusual? Jagodka gene peeked out??20250528_180946.jpg
It's very uncommon, but I have seen it. I have a tomato that went through a multi-color cycle, settling on red in the end (I believe it started green, went to yellow, then orange, and then red). Its parent was supposed to be Cherokee Lime, but it was actually a bicolor instead.

It was soft with the first color change, I believe.

I've read a description or two of a tomato that is supposed to be like this. The vast majority of tomatoes don't resemble this behavior at all, though, or if they do, they just have a slight color change when they get extra ripe.

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Posted: **Fri May 30, 2025 4:36 pm**

Thank you

. This is a Hillbilly and Jagodka cross, and the color is supposed to be more like Hillbilly.
Not too wild about yellow/orange tomatoes, but the fast-growing nature & high productivity of this tomato might become one of my repeats. I'll save seeds from the plant that produced all orange, but I'll keep in mind that this oddity could happen again.

Shule wrote: ↑Fri May 30, 2025 2:01 am
TerraCayda wrote: ↑Thu May 29, 2025 8:32 pm Weirdness. Big Hill, orange with slight green shoulders. One fruit turned RED on the same truss. Never seen anything like this before? Common? Unusual? Jagodka gene peeked out??20250528_180946.jpg
It's very uncommon, but I have seen it. I have a tomato that went through a multi-color cycle, settling on red in the end (I believe it started green, went to yellow, then orange, and then red). Its parent was supposed to be Cherokee Lime, but it was actually a bicolor instead.

It was soft with the first color change, I believe.

I've read a description or two of a tomato that is supposed to be like this. The vast majority of tomatoes don't resemble this behavior at all, though, or if they do, they just have a slight color change when they get extra ripe.

Posted: **Fri May 30, 2025 5:21 pm**

@TerraCayda Seems like it could be a 'sport'. Not a lot of information that I could find except for the clip below.

''On the rare chance that there was a mutation on a certain branch, you’ll notice a radical difference. For example, on a Black Krim plant you might notice one yellow fruit when the rest of the fruit are maroon. This is called a “sport.” If you save the seed from that sport, the next generation of plants will likely have yellow fruit too.''

Posted: **Fri May 30, 2025 7:22 pm**

"Sport", eh? Thank you looking it up. Yellow amongst maroon would totally freak me out

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I'll be sure to save seeds from the plant that didn't produce this oddity. Not sure if I should feel lucky to see this; I think I'm too old to be excited about a mutation

pondgardener wrote: ↑Fri May 30, 2025 5:21 pm @TerraCayda Seems like it could be a 'sport'. Not a lot of information that I could find except for the clip below.

''On the rare chance that there was a mutation on a certain branch, you’ll notice a radical difference. For example, on a Black Krim plant you might notice one yellow fruit when the rest of the fruit are maroon. This is called a “sport.” If you save the seed from that sport, the next generation of plants will likely have yellow fruit too.''

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