Yes. I am well aware of your fruit quality/flavor results, as it relates to hybrids. And also your work with rin lines. I also should have cited your blog post on hybrid vs OP tomatoes at the top of the thread.
This photo of the sft results is particularly striking, and highlights how plant architecture may be one key component of production heterosis -- and it shows that plant size is not always correlated with total fruit production.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NcIc-lRefS...-heterosis.jpg
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Originally Posted by frogsleap farm
As you know Fred, I've been interested in this for a couple of years and am now convinced, and the literature supports, that there can be heterosis for both yield and flavor. I think there may be a yield /flavor tradeoff at very high levels of fruit yield - but less so with indeterminate plants. Certainly there is room for improvement for both flavor and fruit yield and I think F1 hybrids offer some advantages in this regard. http://frogsleapfarm.blogspot.com/20...varieties.html |