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Old 03-05-2019, 01:56 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: Yield in dwarf varieties vs tall ones

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Originally Posted by raygrogan View Post
Let's wait for answers from people who know what they are talking about, but my backyard observation is that dwarf (Brazilian) out-yields the talls by a whopping double or something. I still prefer the talls for taste and how they ripen, but for bunch size and volume per space (and not to mention easier harvests) you just can't beat the dwarfs. This is if you have the dwarfs in their own beds, not if they have to compete with the talls for sun.
Well that is just fascinating, you would think it's the opposite for obvious reasons.

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I still prefer the talls for taste and how they ripen
Would you care to elaborate please, Do you mean they take longer to ripe thus the sugars have longer time to develop?
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