After growing umpteen thousands of Big Beef over the years, I'm TOTALLY impressed with Big Beef grafted to the Maxifort rootstock!
The plants are pruned to 2 leaders and are setting fruit in the 4th set of blooms up the plants, 7 trusses at this point. Not only are they setting fruit, the fruit is still exploding from the flower, and the size of a marble with the petals still fresh and yellow! The thing I'm liking is the plants have had half the fertilizer I would normally have used by this point, and 1/3 of the water to keep standard Big Beef plants fruitful!
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