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Old January 8, 2017   #47
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Default F3 of Winter Sky - pretty colors

Six plants, one gf/gf Beta/-, four more with Beta/- color, one strange gf? red? and a lot of green stripes, but late, firm to hard and slow ripening, and some uneven ripening too.
No determinate! in this batch of six, I guess I had to luck out????

Outdoors in the woodstacker, there was no serious fruit setting until it warmed up in August for awhile. By the time they started to blush, the season was really over - partly my fault for starting late, and partly my fault for forgetting, they only have Zolotoe Serdtse's 'middle' earliness and laterness from Indian Stripe. Two in the greenhouse were crowded and shaded, and there was uneven ripening especially in the earlier one. The black Beta/- finally set and ripened, but the fruit was pretty insipid, not a bit tasty. Too bad! The greenhouse Beta/- was not sweet or special either, but the first to ripen outdoors was very sweet so I saved seeds from it. It was the only one that was notably sweet, and the interesting taste of the F2 wasn't to be found in any of these.
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