other fruit shape segregations - Skipper and Rodney
All of the Skipper plants, which had small flowers as well, appear to have much the same shape as last year - a mini beef shape in clusters of 6, exactly as before. The cluster shown below has four fruit well on the way, and the shape is typical of all of them. It seems this combination of traits is easy to stabilize.
Sadly the same isn't true of Rodney, which had a lovely radish shaped fruit in the F1, also in clusters of six. The two earliest F2's are very different this time. T1 has spectacular large flower clusters but has been slow to set. The baby fruit certainly don't look at all pointy. And the fruit on S1 are distinctly more of a beef, and probably a larger fruit out of the Black Early part of the parentage. Nasty catface on the first one.
The later flowering Rodneys have gone to live outdoors, the third one also looks flat fruited and the fourth a suspected cross. So it looks like the pointy trait is harder to recover, and I will have to grow more F2's next time to find one.
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