questions raised by shades of red
One thing that really surprised me was to find that the HExWS F1 red had so much darker flesh than the red parent Hope's Early. The pic below was taken to show the difference, after I had scooped out seeds. Slice of a Hope's is on the left, the F1 plum on the right.
My first thought is that Hope's Early could still have a yellow allele kicking around from ZK parent. I will have to grow out more of them, maybe ten???? to screen for that recessive.
The other possibility is that there are some 'extra red' genetics coming from the Zolotoe Serdtse parentage... not sure what gene that might be, but the question was raised after I found the cherry/burgundy red fruit in the Sundog line.. and other color questions in the Winter Sky cohort..... will show and tell about those at the end.
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