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Old July 21, 2017   #5
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Originally Posted by crmauch View Post
That sounds impressive for growth, but are you also seeing differences in flower production and fruiting? I have heard of cases outside of tomatoes where the the hybrid was very vigorous, but not particularly fruitful (the Jostaberry is the one that comes to my mind [if you're not familiar it's a hybrid of black currant and gooseberry, compared to gooseberry it's a monster of a plant, but not very fruitfull])
I actually have jostaberry in my garden,can't say anything for productiveness yet as it started producing only this year.

While the hybrid I mentioned has smaller fruit,and even smaller total fruit weight per truss than the parent with higher yield/truss,it is so vigorous that when the total yield per plant is taken into account,it is higher.
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