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Old June 17, 2019   #1
PureHarvest
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Default Light of the World F1

Wanted to start a new thread on my cross since the old title did not apply to what I actually did.

Anyway, I am days away from tasting the F1 fruit of Brandywine Platfoot x Orange Jazz. Calling it Light of the World.

Plants are the tallest in my greenhouse, as well as fattest stems.

My goal was to get a yellow/orange fruit that was large and delicious like the Platfoot, but earlier, more productive, and non-splitting like OJ.
I know breeding is more complicated than just crossing the 2 and getting those features, but I had to have a starting point.
Fruit are getting LARGE. 75% look to be pounders. Slight ribbing on top. None are cracking at all, where neighboring Cherokee Purple, Guker's Special, and Brandy Boy are as always.
Color is going gold like I hoped. Just started, so more darkening expected.

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I have 9 F2 that have set fruit (I pulled seeds but did not get to taste the F1 last november, as it was not fully ripe). I was hoping to find a yellow fruit with potato leaf, and none of the 9 F2 have this.
I am planning on fermenting seeds from this current F1 crop. I will plant out 24 plants as soon as I can germ them.

Will do a slice and taste this weekend hopefully...

Last edited by PureHarvest; June 17, 2019 at 03:14 PM.
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