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Old January 8, 2017   #40
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Default Skipper F2 - my personal favorites

In general these were very much like the F1 - early, sweet, with a dense chewy texture I like. It was easy to choose the best - most vigorous, sweetest and best setting red-black identical to the F1. Recessive traits showed up out of six plants; one determinate, and one pink-black. Two had cherry fruit, and possibly the "locule number" multiplier gene is absent from this line. The pink-black had larger fruit and was as sweet and good as its sibling, so carrying that line forward as well. I was so excited to see a determinate, but the early fruit were particularly awful - both mushy and sour. It was the only different texture to turn up in five plants - the sixth got culled due to being way later than the others.
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