Originally Posted by robguz24

Tony, if you look at the pictures of the bud in the links you posted, they have a quite unique bud, which is kind of more fat at the top and heart-shaped, rather than elongated. Many pictures on this site seem to show something completely different, and makes me wonder if they are really goldfinger. The Kepler book points to that shape as being a clear sign of goldfinger.

In the Promusa 2nd pic, they don't really look bottlenecked.

My supposed to be goldfinger originally an agristarts GF so far may or may not be one, so who knows?

I agree with Mark, it seems some of the types I see here near the edges of the tropics look quite different than the ones for web sites and old books with Florida based pictures anyway. Then again I was selling at my farmer's market today and the guy across from me was again selling whole racks of DBs harvested probably 2-3 months too soon, and they were half the size and looked quite different than the ones I grow and harvest when ripening on the bunch. And since they weren't full the bottle neck was not as obvious.