Time to Ripening Determined by Pollen Donor?
I recently crossed Cherokee Purple with Pineapple. In one case, I used Pineapple as the pollen donor and in the other, I used CH Purple as the pollen donor. In the F1 result, the time to ripening of the Pineapple pollen donor matched a typical Pineapple plant and the Cherokee Purple pollen donor matched that of a typical CH Purple plant. Was this to be expected? is time to ripening dictated by the pollen donor or is it hit or miss?
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