Larry Oji, Super Moderator, Judge, "Dirge for the Follin" Project Director, VG Frequency Creator
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Mar 2006
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Apr 2, 2006, 01:13 AM
Local time: Apr 1, 2006, 10:13 PM
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About retarded fruits...
I was thinking of growing some oranges from seed, but wanted to do some background reading (why waste resources if my climate isn't right?) It turns out that none of the oranges you can regularly buy in a US grocery store will give have seeds that will fruit. Sure they'll grow, but apparently because of the insane hybridization they have gone through, they won't get any farther than the blooms. In fact, you have to graft an orange branch onto another tree to propagate them now. Yikes!
I am very curious about the aforementioned chemical and abnormal number of chromosomes it strawberries... a cursory search didn't give me any results, but I did learn some interesting things about strawberry polyploidy (and the many species of strawberries with different numbers of sets of chromosomes).
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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