Table 5.  Early and mid-season agronomic characteristics of varieties at Cone, TX, 2002.
	Early season 6-25-02								Mid-season 7-2-02
	Stand	Stand	Plant	Node of 1st	Mainstem	Height	First position		Plant	Mainstem	Height	First position
	count	count	height	sympodium	nodes	to node	fruit retention		height	nodes	to node	fruit retention
Variety	plants/row-ft	plants/acre	inches	average	total/plant	ratio	%		inches	total/plant	ratio	%
SG215BG/RR	4.0	51923	6.5	6.1	8.9	0.70	85.6		9.0	10.4	0.87	81.9
NK 2165C	3.7	48090	7.2	5.5	9.4	0.77	59.5		9.3	11.1	0.83	78.3
All-Tex Atlas RR	4.1	53317	6.5	5.1	8.8	0.77	86.7		9.7	10.0	1.00	81.9
FM 958	3.9	51314	6.2	7.7	10.2	0.63	96.7		8.7	10.9	0.80	90.1
FM 966	3.3	43038	6.3	7.2	10.0	0.63	94.0		8.8	11.2	0.80	86.0
FM 989RR	4.5	58545	7.3	7.5	10.0	0.73	88.6		8.8	11.5	0.77	73.6
PM 2266RR	3.5	46087	6.5	5.3	8.8	0.73	86.1		8.7	10.4	0.87	81.6
PM 2280BG/RR	4.2	55582	6.5	6.0	9.4	0.70	80.5		8.8	11.1	0.77	82.5
PM 2326RR	4.4	58109	6.7	5.0	8.5	0.80	84.5		10.0	10.1	1.00	81.8
PM 2344BG/RR	3.8	49833	6.8	5.7	9.4	0.73	88.0		8.5	10.9	0.80	85.2
PM HS26	4.5	58370	6.5	5.3	8.5	0.77	85.9		8.3	10.5	0.77	87.2
Raider 271	3.9	51314	7.2	6.1	9.9	0.73	82.5		10.3	11.9	0.90	84.9
ST 2454R	2.9	37636	6.2	5.6	9.1	0.67	87.8		8.5	10.4	0.83	89.0
Average	3.9	51012	6.6	6.0	9.3	0.7	85.1		9.0	10.8	0.8	83.4
CV, %	6.6	6.6	7.6	4.4	4.1	9.10	7.3		7.8	4.2	9.90	6.5
OSL	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.1325	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0908	<0.0001		0.0412	0.0009	0.0180	0.0678
LSD 0.05	0.4	5702	NS	0.4	0.6	NS	10.4		1.2	0.8	0.14	9.1
CV - coefficient of variation, LSD - least significant difference.
OSL - observed significance level, or probability of a greater F value.
NS - non significant.