A nice big haul today, the peak of the season. A big harvest of Flamme. A few IR for seed banking. Some large KB are growing but not yet ripe, also for seed saving. Some very huge ML - picked a little before full ripe but close - so those did well. Interestingly, CP did not do as well. The fruit is by now mostly suffering extensively from sun burn/bleaching, or, rot, which may be due to cracking thanks to excess rain about a week ago. I am not sure why: maybe they would be less sunburned if the plants were propped up better and maybe pruned to promote more leaves above. Green Zebra seems to be yielding very well without the rampant disease and rot like last year. It is interesting how the different varieties fare differently this year...new location, slight weather variation, etc.? Super sauce actually did very nice now, with about a dozen huge fruit today. And a bunch of Romas. But one SS is equal to like six Romas I think.
F3s are a mix of not yet ripe and some bleaching. I didn't harvest many today, except some select ones for seeds and phenotyping, and the red cherries - 28d and 58, which are prolific. About 2 quarts each of 28d and 58. The latter are golf ball sized or slightly bigger, so a good old fashioned nice red globe. 24, 46 and 55 have the strong purple + gf; I will save some 8a to have a non-purple "gf" that is smaller than CP but still good sized, like ~150 g. A nice slicer that will probably be less prone to cat facing and cracking than CP. Taking notes on taste as I go along.
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