June 5

Did a bunch more twining today, weeding, and some petal counting.   Petal # = surrogate for carpel # phenotype; based on initial counts, IR has ~ 6 petals/flower, CP has ~8 and the F1 is close to CP, and the F2s express a range.  I definitely noticed some megablooms on some F2s, and these are generally the first bloom on a truss, as has been reported by various folks on the interwebs.  So I am going to discard these outliers from any averages.  These tend to have >10 petals, e.g. 13 or 14+.     I also smushed about a dozen potato beetle larvae.   At home, I have a plant that is already 6 ft high.  In the home garden I had some branches at the bottom of HC plants turning yellow and dying; this is either something like septoria spot, or, a semi-determinate normal dying off of the lowest branches.  To be safe I cut all these branches and threw them away.    It has been rainy lately and I've had the sprinklers going and that may contribute to it.  Seems like a minimal problem tho.