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Originally Posted by Fred Hempel
That is amazingly fast development! About 40 days from transplant to ripe fruit. It looks flattened, like a mini-beefsteak. Am I seeing things right?
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Yes, it is a shocker. At this latitude (S MN/SW WI) I have only once had a ripe fruit by July 4 - and it was a small cherry in an unusually warm spring. We've had a normal season this year, and although there were a couple of cherry size sibs that were nearly ripe, and an unrelated currant type with a couple ripe fruits - this one stood out. The fruit I cut open to taste and save seed had six locules - it is a small beefsteak type.