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Old May 25, 2009   #2
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Very nice! I am a long way away from that, having just gotten my 16 plants in this week. As usual, I am doing some dehybridizing and selecting. Neon F2 showed three distinctly different seedling types - purple stem, green stem and slightly purple stem. Orient Express F2 showed two types - purple stem and slightly purple stem. Orient Charm F3 showed two types - purple stem and green stem.

Sometimes this type of thing shows up clearly in different fruit, sometimes not. Last year I had two Louisiana Long Green plant types - purplish stem and green stem. One had white flowers, the other lavender. Despite this, the fruit on both were essentially identical.

This genetics stuff is fascinating (well, to me, anyway).

My main standby eggplant this year are Rosa Bianca, Prosperosa, New York Improved, Green Giant, Casper, and two I named - Ripples (from Zebra, looks like an elongated Listada di Gandia), and Snow Globe, out of Cloud Nine.
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