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Old November 11, 2017   #10
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How cool is that, KarenO.
I'm seeing the same kind of 'anomalies' as well - larger fruit with 2 locules and smaller fruit with more. It is certainly worth saving seed separately as there are obviously other genes involved in fruit size at play. I would see both of those types as being especially useful for breeding (taste and other desirable qualities being present of course). You could breed for extra large cherries using the 2 locule type, while the multilocule would save you generations of work (or numbers of growouts) if you wanted to cross that fruit with a larger one to scale up the fruit size.

BTW I paid more attention to locule number this year, partly on account of this thread that got me grinding those gears. Took pics and will post some data when the seasonal crazybusy is done. A lot of similar sized fruit with different locule numbers, you could easily let the outliers slip by without noticing if you weren't paying attention, but they really are the ones I want...
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