Table 9.  Early and mid-season agronomic characteristics of varieties at Tokio, TX, 2002.
	Early Season 6-26-02								Early-Mid Season 7-1-02
	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	%
SG 215BG/RR	4.4	57151	7.2	6.0	8.0	0.90	84.1		9.7	9.9	0.97	80.6
AFD 2050	3.8	49223	6.3	4.8	7.7	0.82	92.3		9.2	9.1	1.01	86.5
All-Tex AtlasRR	4.3	55757	6.2	4.6	6.8	0.90	80.3		9.2	9.2	0.99	82.9
DP 555B/RR	4.6	59590	6.2	6.2	7.8	0.79	92.1		9.2	9.5	0.97	88.7
FM 958	3.5	46522	6.0	6.2	7.4	0.80	97.7		9.5	9.7	0.99	80.8
FM 989	4.6	59939	5.3	6.3	6.8	0.79	100.0		8.8	8.9	0.99	81.8
FM 989BR	4.0	51488	7.2	6.6	7.9	0.90	90.4		8.5	10.1	0.83	89.1
PM 2266RR	4.2	55408	5.7	4.4	6.9	0.82	88.1		8.3	9.1	0.92	86.5
PM 2280BG/RR	4.4	57760	7.2	4.8	7.6	0.94	86.3		8.2	9.7	0.84	84.6
PM 2326RR	4.5	59067	5.5	4.4	6.8	0.81	92.7		9.5	8.2	1.15	82.6
PM 2344BG/RR	4.4	57935	6.0	4.5	7.0	0.86	84.8		8.7	8.5	1.01	85.7
PM HS26	4.4	58457	6.0	4.7	7.4	0.81	81.6		8.7	8.5	1.02	79.6
AFD Raider 271	4.0	52882	7.3	5.2	7.8	0.95	87.0		9.3	9.3	1.00	84.1
ST 2454R	3.6	46261	6.5	4.7	7.9	0.83	86.0		9.8	9.2	1.07	89.9
ST 3539BR	3.8	49833	6.7	5.1	8.1	0.82	88.3		9.8	9.5	1.03	82.6
Average	4.2	54485	6.3	5.3	7.5	0.85	88.8		9.1	9.2	1.0	84.4
CV, %	7.7	7.9	7.9	6.3	7.4	8.40	5.2		11.0	6.2	11.90	8.8
OSL	0.0013	0.0017	0.0002	<0.0001	0.0324	0.1114	0.0006		0.5990	0.0155	0.2340	0.8646
LSD 0.05	0.5	7197	0.8	0.6	0.9	NS	7.8		NS	1.0	NS	NS
CV - coefficient of variation, LSD - least significant difference.
OSL - observed significance level, or probability of a greater F value.
NS - non significant.