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Old January 2, 2013   #16
Moshou
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There are red and yellow "Andes"
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Old January 2, 2013   #17
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I've only grown Des Andes, seeds came from Kokopelli. Very nice tomato well worth growing. I was surprised how big some of the fruits were, I'd thought they were more Roma size!
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There are red and yellow "Andes"
Could be, but the red is the original and the yellow probably came about by a mutation of the epidermis from yellow ( red fruited) to clear ( yellow fruited).

Quite a few years ago I was growing the variety Green Gage, which is yellow, and due to a somatic mutation ( mutation in a plant cell,not the seed DNA), one branch had red fruits.

With a bit of research I found out that that was already known for that variety and wasn't all that rare, but it's the first somatic mutation I ever saw. So red to yellow and yellow to red.

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