If just one branch it could be a somatic mutation, but the problem is that most variegated accessions need to be propagated vegetatively and only the named variety Variegated, aka Variegata, comes true from seed.

So if I were you I'd take some cuttings from that branch and propgatethem vegetativly and then when you have fruits, save seeds from those and see if they come true from seed.

Have you grown Variegata in you garden in the past?

Is the plant you refer to from your saved seeds?

Carolyn

Linda

But NOT on just one branch. ( smile)

Carolyn

Linda, no pesticides have ever come through my garden gate. I am a bit of a crackpot about that and grow ALL my own food according to the whims of Nature.

Richard

With so many folks doing their own breeding now and so many unstable varieties being made available, who knows for sure.

There have been some pictures shown here at GW of supposed variegation which turned out to be bird droppings. LOL

Even the pictures I linked to of Roundup damage, above, don't look like typical variegation.

I have the TT catalog around here someplace, but I don't pay too much attention to it b'c there ae still lots of errors in terms of some variety descriptions, some of which they inherited when they bought TT from Wayne Hilton who originally developed TT. nd yes, I've tried to get some things changed, alas, I haven't been very successful.

Last I knew Totally Tomatoes did none of their own tomato seed production. I don't even know if they subcontrct out, which is another possibility, I know they buy some seed from SSE and probably wholesale from other places.

Carolyn

Richard

Then I remembered that someone who got Green Zebra Cherry from a seed offer of mine also got some plants with variegation, and whatever it was saved seeds did not pass it on.so the conclusion was thatit was something environmental, perhaps herbicide drift.

Hope that helps,

Carolyn.