Table 1.  Early season, mid-season, late-season, and final plant mapping data for the Muleshoe Systems Trial, 2001.                   
Variety Early season Early season Early season Early season NFFB Early season Early season Mid season Late season Late season Final Final Final Final Final
stand, plant height, total nodes, height to node 1st pos. fruit fruiting nodes, 1st pos. fruit NAWF, NAWF, plant height vegetative fruiting total height
plants/acre inches number ratio node number retention, % count retention, % count count nodes nodes nodes to node
  6/4/01 6/15/01 6/15/01 6/15/01 6/27/01 6/27/01 6/27/01 7/17/01 7/25/01 7/31/01 inches #/plant #/plant #/plant ratio
DP 2156 95,464 3.9 3.9 0.99 4.5 93.6 4.3 78.9 5.0 3.3 19.4 4.4 11.5 15.9 1.2
FM 819 91,205 4.1 5.2 0.78 6.8 87.7 4.2 69.2 5.8 4.3 22.0 6.0 11.4 17.3 1.3
PM 2145RR 102,782 4.2 5.0 0.85 5.1 92.7 3.3 77.3 5.2 3.2 19.3 4.4 9.8 14.2 1.4
PM 2156RR 98,581 4.2 4.5 0.94 5.0 91.2 4.2 78.1 5.1 3.4 20.4 4.7 10.1 14.8 1.4
PM 2167RR 85,145 4.0 4.8 0.84 5.0 89.1 4.1 77.9 5.6 3.8 19.8 4.6 11.0 15.5 1.3
PM 2200RR 92,541 4.6 4.9 0.95 6.0 80.6 4.4 68.2 4.8 3.4 21.3 5.5 10.5 16.0 1.3
PM2280BG/RR 104,273 4.6 5.0 0.90 5.5 84.0 4.3 70.6 5.0 3.6 20.9 5.0 11.3 16.4 1.3
PM 2326RR 106,383 4.7 4.6 1.02 4.7 82.7 4.7 74.4 4.8 3.5 21.4 4.9 9.5 14.4 1.5
PM 2379RR 95,619 4.1 4.9 0.84 5.0 79.2 3.8 72.2 5.5 3.5 21.6 4.4 11.2 15.6 1.4
PM 280 88,088 4.3 4.4 0.99 6.0 76.7 4.6 70.9 5.3 3.4 21.9 5.2 12.5 17.7 1.2
ST 2454R 87,101 4.4 4.9 0.91 5.4 90.9 4.6 77.3 5.2 3.6 21.8 4.8 11.4 16.3 1.3
ST BXN16 90,237 4.4 4.6 0.96 5.3 79.5 4.1 76.1 5.5 3.5 21.9 4.7 11.0 15.7 1.4
All-Tex XpressRR 82,435 3.9 4.3 0.92 5.3 90.1 4.4 70.9 4.9 3.1 20.5 4.8 11.0 15.8 1.3
CV, % 6.7 5.8 7.6 5.4 10.1 9.2 13.2 6.8 8.2 15.3 7.9 10.3 5.9 4.9 7.1
OSL 0.0011 0.0047 0.0085 <0.0001 0.0016 0.1614 0.3051 0.1288 0.1328 0.4815 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
LSD 0.05 10,539 0.4 0.6 0.08 0.9 NS NS NS NS NS NS 0.8 1.1 1.3 NS
NFFB - node of first fruiting branch
NAWF - nodes above 1st position white flower
LSD - least significant difference, NS - not significant.
Numbers in "Final" columns represent an average of 6 plants per plot for a total of 18 plants per variety.