New Ramification defaults to custom name not first variant option

[websmith]

Im using Joomla 3.5.1 and VM 3.0.16

Im having an issue with multi variant custom fields. I am able to apply my custom field to products, however the custom field name always defaults to first child product famification instead of the multi variant option. I have enclosed an image with notes for example.

So i have alpha ice cream as my product and it comes in 2 flavors. my first ramification should be flavor 1. If I choose flavor 1 and save it displays in front end of site correctly. If I open that product for any reason, price change, description change, etc, it defaults back to custom field name and not my first flavor option.

This is terribly time consuming since we will have over 300 products. The first ramification is the default product sku, which should be the first or main parent product option.

Am I not understanding how this works or am I overlooking something? Thanks for any help with this.