[bower]

As with the Kitten Paws, the next generation of Winter Sky is telling me that the dark green colour in the F2 immature fruit was resulting to some extent from a gf allele, in this half-Beta orange red heart selection from Zolotoe Serdtse X Indian Stripe. Among the early flowering there is one with a distinctly black type flower. My pictures from last year suggest that the Beta colour shows in the anthers early on, at least as a high intensity warm yellow - I will have to wait for more flowers to open to verify the Beta stages. I'm hoping to find a full Beta/Beta determinate among this year's seven plants, but pretty excited to see a black whether it has Beta in the mix or not.
Earliness is closer to being fixed in this line, with 5 of 7 plants flowering at 49-53 days.
Height differences at flower are also being watched here. In the F2, a "tall" turned out to have the sp/sp semideterminate growth habit. Winter Sky was a short one.
The flower of the earliest is shown below, a typical beta (?or red) type, and the flower I expect to be a black.