Aphids and other sucking insects can cause leaves to roll. Look for them on the underside of the leaves.

Fo there are no bugs or signs of damage it’s probably physiological leaf roll.

https://hortsense.cahnrs.wsu.edu/fact-sheet/tomato-physiological-leaf-roll/

Pepper seeds begin to mature when the pod turns color. Green peppers are immature peppers and the seeds are not viable. Red or yellow, the seeds may be viable.

The largest issue with using store bought fruit is the seeds need to be treated with TSP (Trisodium phosphate) when they are harvested. This treatment kills tobacco mosaic virus. TMV and other tobamovisues are common in production areas.

The plants will also be a segregating F2 plant. So the fruit/plant will look a little different from the parent (F1). Not a big deal in my opinion.

If you pop the plant up and look at its roots right now you’d answer your own questions. Cucumbers roots grow very rapidly at that stage. They are all over that pot chasing nutrients. If it is a nutrients issue, it’s from that potting soil.

I had one I planted not come up the first year.

The second year it sent up a small shoot.

The third year it sent up 4 shoots but 3 of them were smashed by my older sons basketball.

The 4th year it grew 5 shoots.

It finally bloomed for the first time on the firth year

6 years later it’s a large bush with tons of flowers.

ZYMV mainly infects species in the cucurbit family (squash, pumpkin, melons, cucumbers etc). I don’t recall if it bothers tomatoes.

The only way to know for sure is with an ELISA test strip.

Of course multiple nutrient deficiencies like Mg, and K can also cause mosaic like symptoms. A heavy infestation of fungus gnats in the soil can also damage the roots and cause similar symptoms.

So give it some fertilizer and wait a week. If the new growth improves it’s nutrient related. If not, it’s a virus.

The first few leaves normally don’t express. It takes a little while for the virus to replicate. If I had to guess it could be ZYMV. It is seedborne in cucumbers and is spread by aphids. ZYMV is endemic to all seed production regions. So it pops up with regularity.

Where did you get the seed from and what variety is it?

That looks like a seedborne virus.

Two things are going on.

First the leaves - That is sunscald. It happens to plants that are raised under lower light conditions then exposed to direct sunlight.

Second the plant is experiencing transplant shock. This is a wound response from the roots being damaged during transplant. The plant has to pause it’s rapid growth to heal it’s roots and grow new ones. This can take a few weeks in severe cases.

Now for the good news - if the plant is sending out new dark green smaller leaves it’s recovering from the damage and will eventually be fine.

Most trees are slightly non-uniform. It’s just part of who they are. You can set them straight when they are little but eventually, you’ll have to let them be.

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You can’t even follow my explanations can you. Oh well…

FYI, You’ve been arguing plant genetics and gene expression with a commercial plant breeder… LMAO.

Thanks for the entertainment.

The nursery completely misled you. This is extremely common. Nursuries spread whatever myth is convenient to pacify their customers. So kindly stop spreading their bullshit.

Here is the likely original source of the seed. It’s one of two wholesale supplies that produce the seed.

https://www.applewoodseed.com/product/columbine-mckana-giants-mix/

This is a segregating population many different colors. They hybrid refers to an inter-specific cross back in the 1950’s.

Not all of the colors will bloom at the same time. Some bloom after one year, others bloom after 2-3 years. Columbines also have what is called seed dormancy. Seeds can remain in the soil for several years before they germinate.

What you think of is one plant is likely 10 or so individual plants completing their lifecycle the past few years.

The paragraph you quoted is the exact bit that supports my statement. Since you didn’t understand it allow me to define some things

Interbreeding - this is sexual reproduction from flower to seed to a new plant between two different population groups or species. This refers to generations not one plant.

Stable population - this is a term used in population genetics to describe the expression of traits is relatively unchanging from one generation to the next in a population.

The author also describes a few mechanisms for how the colors change in the population. The color preference of the dominant pollinator is the major selection pressure.

A few other bits of information. Columbines are biannual/short lived perennials. The first year or couple of years the plants grow vegetatively and do not bloom. When the plant gets large enough it blooms and produces seed. The plant then dies at the end of the season. That fall or the next spring the seeds germinated and it takes 2-4 years for the plant to flower and the cycle to repeat itself.

Nope.

Flower color in columbines is strictly genetic. Hybridization between populations is common to get all sorts of colors. If you usually end up with red flowers that’s because that population is better adapted to your environment. I usually end up with more blues.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/beauty/columbines/birdsandbees.shtml

Now environmental conditions can change the expression of flower color in some species. For example hydrangeas will bloom blue or red based upon the soil pH. White hydrangeas are not affected by soil pH, they always bloom white. The degree of pigmentation can also shift in roses based upon temperature. So you’ll get more intense color under cooler conditions and paler colors under hot conditions. The genetics doesn’t change but the expression of the traits can.

Columbines don’t change their color. That was likely a mixed pot of several different plants. Over the years the other plants have died out leaving only the red.

Do not attempt to transplant the corn.

The roots go much deeper than you think at that stage.

You can leave a cluster of 3-4 plants if their closest neighbor is 18" away. It actually helps with pollination.

The fuzzy thing is a wooly aphid/mealybug in the sub-family Eriosomatinae.

As for controlling them:

Predators - parasitic wasps are by far the most effective on aphids and mealybugs. The second is lacewing larvae.

Insecticidal soap works pretty well on them if sprayed directly on them.

Aphids have two forms. A flying form and and a wingless colony forming form.

Those are wingless colony forming form. All you have to do is run your finger along the flower/ stem to remove them. Keep it up for a few weeks and the predators will eventually find them. Once you have some predators around the aphids will go away for the rest of the year.

A nice attempt but you’ll have to dig deeper to understand how it works.

First off this is how phosphate contaminates waterways.

Phosphorus gets into water in both urban and agricultural settings. Phosphorus tends to attach to soil particles and, thus, moves into surface-water bodies from runoff.

The soil particles holds the phosphorus in the top few inches of the profile. Then during saturation events, it dissolves runs off with the water.

It also can leach into groundwater but it’s not as common and depends on the chemical makeup of the soil type.

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/phosphorus-and-water#overview

This is why phosphorus in lawn fertilizer has been banned in many states.

1/3 of phosphorus is not available to plants at application - completely missed that one.

Plants only take up the ortho-phosphate. Water soluable phosphate is usually a blend of polyphosphate (2/3rd) and ortho-phosphate (1/3). Polyphosphate is converted to ortho-phosphate via hydrolysis in water. Depending on the composition of the soil temperatere, moisture, it can take a few days or a few weeks or months to convert.

K+ interfering with the uptake of Mg+ and Ca+.

K+ , Mg+ and Ca+ compete for uptake directly with K+. Any amount of excess K+ directly competes with the uptake of Mg+ and Ca+. This is why some species just uptake extra K+ and store it in their vacuoles. If you want to cause BER in tomatoes/peppers, watermelons etc… extra K can do this the first year. These species struggle to get enough Ca to the growing point under good conditions. Anything that slows it down can cause BER.

Diva is a parthenocarpic gynecious variety. It will only produce female flowers.

Burpless = less bitter. Refers to a specific reduced bitterness gene originally from the dutch/English long cucumbers.