terrible tasting f1

[heirloomdaddy]

Hey guys...the first successful cross I made, from which I am about to harvest seed is a black cherry x green zebra. This was done before reading on tatiana's site that someone had done this and the f1 tasted terrible. Another site I found had graded the flavor of this cross an "F". But in all reality, this by no means implies that some gems can't come from future generations, correct? I'm looking forward to creating something unique and tasty. Ideally the rich flavor and enormous productivity of the bc with the looks and zip of the gz.

another newbie question. If stripes are recessive, this means that I won't see them until the f2 generation? If I grew infinite plants, it be found in 25% of the population....? or is there more to it than that? I can't imagine that the black cherry has a stripe gene to invite to the party...

thanks for the guidance,
matt