"I was surprised by the uniformity"
Same here. Back in the early 1990s everybody told me that buckfast is an uneven crossing. Some claimed it had to be "redone" every year in the Abbey! The reality was quite the opposite: when I raised daughters from the first "pure" buckfast I got from Annette and Jos Guth (Jungels breed in Luxembourg), they were so unbelievable uniform compared to the daughters raised from Finnish Italian queens I had been buying earlier. I realized what decades of controlled sister matings does to a breed.
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