Table 4.  Early season, mid-season, late-season, and final plant mapping data for the Cone Systems Trial, 2001.                   
Variety Early season Early season Early season Early season NFFB Early season Early season Mid season Mid 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
  5/14/01 6/13/01 6/13/01 6/13/01 6/19/01 6/19/01 6/19/01 7/11/01 7/18/01 7/24/01 inches #/plant #/plant #/plant ratio
FM 5015 23,159 6.0 8.0 0.75 6.7 85.1 3.4 89.0 5.7 4.3 23.3 5.3 15.6 20.9 1.1
FM 958 35,429 5.5 8.3 0.67 8.1 86.6 2.3 85.8 6.2 4.4 18.8 6.8 14.0 20.9 0.9
FM 989 35,676 6.0 8.2 0.74 7.7 86.3 2.5 86.1 6.6 4.1 22.8 7.1 11.8 18.8 1.2
FM 989BG/RR 44,649 5.4 7.1 0.75 7.5 76.9 2.7 95.9 5.8 3.2 18.7 5.9 11.9 17.8 1.1
PM 2200RR 31,029 6.3 8.1 0.77 5.7 70.4 3.8 89.9 6.0 3.6 20.7 5.8 13.6 19.3 1.1
PM 2266RR 14,520 5.2 7.0 0.74 5.4 76.6 3.5 89.2 6.1 4.9 19.9 4.5 14.7 19.2 1.0
PM 2280BG/RR 42,602 5.9 8.0 0.73 5.6 69.4 3.6 90.3 5.2 3.5 19.1 5.8 12.2 17.9 1.1
PM 2326BG/RR 44,329 5.5 7.6 0.72 5.2 76.9 3.5 82.3 5.2 3.9 19.2 5.7 13.0 18.7 1.0
PM 2326RR 45,418 5.2 6.6 0.78 5.1 65.6 3.5 78.2 4.6 3.0 18.4 5.1 12.5 17.5 1.1
PM 2379 40,903 5.8 7.0 0.81 5.3 49.2 3.5 85.8 5.1 3.5 19.6 5.4 13.5 18.9 1.0
PM 280 41,135 6.2 8.3 0.74 6.5 63.8 3.5 85.4 6.2 3.5 18.1 5.7 13.8 19.5 0.9
PM HS26 51,836 5.3 7.0 0.75 5.6 51.3 3.9 84.9 5.4 3.4 20.0 5.2 12.6 17.7 1.1
ST 2454R 33,715 5.9 7.2 0.81 5.3 73.1 3.4 89.7 6.1 3.7 18.8 5.1 13.2 18.3 1.0
CV, % 19.0 7.0 4.5 6.8 4.5 13.9 10.7 7.0 8.3 13.2 5.3 5.8 6.5 5.1 6.6
OSL <0.0001 0.0237 <0.0001 0.1088 <0.0001 0.0011 0.0002 0.1850 0.0011 0.0058 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.0004 0.0024 0.0024
LSD 0.05 11,711 0.7 0.6 NS 0.5 16.8 0.6 NS 0.8 0.8 1.8 0.5 1.5 1.6 0.1
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.