Wanted to share my two cents regarding berry size. I saw on your, @Mtncj, picture red gem to be dramatically smaller than sweet scarlet, and I noted @TNHunter’s post elsewhere that his RG was bigger than SS. Last year, my experience was similar to yours, @Mtncj – my RG was much smaller than SS, and not just berries but leaves as well (see my post from last year for the pic: Goumi bush degradation?). I almost decided to remove the RG as far inferior but my wife convinced me to try to cut it back to try to rejuvenate it. So we did, and this year the RG had good-size leaves and fantastic berries, actually slightly larger than SS. See the two pics below, the one showing 15g per 10 berries is RG and the one showing 13g per 10 berries is SS. So on average, RG berry was 1.5g vs SS berry at 1.3g. Sounds like the berry size is dependent on the various conditions more than on the inherent cultivar characteristics…
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