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10-04-2006, 03:42 AM posted to rec.gardens,rec.gardens.edible

On 9 Apr 2006 08:40:41 -0700, wrote:
MY QUESTION IS: Does anyone here know which seedling I can cut off,
thereby leaving the one which will eventually bear desirable fruit?

Not without a DNA test. AFAIK, there's generally a gametic embryo and one
more nucellar embryos. You may be able to distinguish the gametic embryo
if you raise them awhile and then compare leaves to leaves of the female
parent. Then again, you may not.

If you don't wish to experiment in seedling fruit, you may as well
just buy a named cultivar.

Kay

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