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List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
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R Ranson wrote:How can someone get confused between grass and garlic?
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"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, these are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?" Gandolf
Jason Silberschneider wrote:I definitely don't want my seedlings to grow true to type! I want 100 different apple seeds to eventually have 100 wildly different flavoured apples growing on them, each more tart and extreme than the last.
Amit Enventres wrote:I've heard rumors about the following not growing, not producing, not tasting good, etc. from grocery produce. I think this is a recent phenomenon too. I remember them growing like crazy when I was a kid.
apples- 20% spitter rate, 40% pie rate (I think this was Paul's numbers)
peaches, pears, nectarines, plums. You can get heirloom varieties, but probably not at the grocery store.
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Based on my reading, there is at least one fruit that's been bred into an Open Pollinated Variety- the Antonovka Apple.Joseph Lofthouse wrote:For me to say that a crop grows "true to type" it pretty much has to have been inbred for about 6 generations before the differences between plants start to become imperceptible to me. I don't think that any fruit trees have been subjected to 6 generations of single-seed descent plant breeding, so I'll go ahead and offer my opinion that no fruit or nut trees grown from seed are 'true to type', as I have defined the term.
Do we have a vote of confidence in pears or oranges?
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Amit Enventres wrote: I could care less if it is a Straight 8 or Market More 76 - it just needs to taste good sliced fresh with cheese dip (feta+creamcheese+drop of milk, mixed), make a good pickle, fit in salads, and grow well in the garden.
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The guy who has hundreds of fruit trees on a small lot is not growing seedlings that way. He has grafted his onto full dwarf rootstock.
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