@"Gladstone1969"#72
Great plate. I might think one of those RLBV trees isn’t true to type.
Understandable - I am blown away by the difference too. But this was started as a cutting by me that was cut in half as was my MBVS cutting. They are both identical and show the same difference in these two areas. I’m 99.9% it’s just the difference between the soil in the two locations. I have 4 Mt. Etnas in my area 2 (MBvs, RLBv, Mavra Sika, and Dominick), directly in ground - no raised bed, that all behave identically. I have 4 varieties of My. Etna in my raised bed that behave the same (MBvs, RLBV, Malta Black, and Takoma Violet), that also behave exactly like the Mt. Etnas. They are from different sources too.