Fruit in the News

General Fruit Growing
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I thought I found that new strawberry too as there’s quite a bit of hairs on the leaves of my local wild strawberries. After sharing pictures and corresponding with Kim Hummer I found out that I just have the very common F. vesca ssp. bracteata. :slight_smile:

However, I did end up finding the rare pale pink flowered form of bracteata (forma Helleri). She of course wanted me to send in seeds of those. I can’t wait until they bloom again this year to better photo document them. My cell phone pictures from last year were poor quality.

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#42

I do get misunderstood, but I disagree , and agree I do think many variables play a part here.
I do like Natives , and the the native Pollinator, & ecology they provide for.

There’s many strawberries for a reason , and I could have commented on how I personally feel,
but I do not have time for all that.

I do feel it is good to keep plants in there wild state as well as it always good for local flora, and fauna , and I do think the little ones are pretty good as well (I think we used to have some fraises)

I will copy & paste some facts , and a question

Do you like Getting strawberries Through out the season is a easy one ?
All through breeding from different environmental conditions from Sub species.
(even limes or lemons have like a few percentage of wild in them, but it contributes flavor I believe)

Quoted from the bottom link

The researchers will also be looking for new sources of the day-neutral habit that keeps today’s cultivars bearing fruit in cycles throughout the growing season. Until the late 1970s, commercial plants fruited for only a few weeks each season. Then Royce Bringhurst of the University of California at Davis collected a subspecies of F. virginiana that blooms out of season in Utah’s Wasatch Range. Genes from that mountain clone revolutionized the industry.

https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/1999/sep/berry/

I also see a Use for berries or genes that have no benefit if it helps with research understanding Genes.

I can see a problem with some things though like bringing unwanted traits to a native species
So Yes I understand it is not so Simple, but there should be a reasoning behind a objection which you provided, so many Great tasting strawberries, and I thought I should say what I had to say, but yes it’s more complicated then that.

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#43

I would say that for the purpose of breeding hybrids between species, like the discussion on raspberries and strawberries, something like this that has a different amount of chromosomes may be useful to someone like @Caesar looking for new possibilities.

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#44

Yes OP I didn’t want to stray off topic , but I did add another reply under quote
(I think as long as I put something in the news it doesn’t veer off too much, and can be ignored by people not caring about genes of strawberries.

I like looking here for fruit, and cultures in the news .
image

https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/

(there is also slow food some news about foods throughout the world
it is easier to find on search took seconds
then above link, and I glad I found fondaz Zione slow food. in notes , b/c I lost it. )

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I thought I found that new strawberry too as there’s quite a bit of hairs on the leaves of my local wild strawberries. After sharing pictures and corresponding with Kim Hummer I found out that I just have the very common F. vesca ssp. bracteata. :slight_smile:

However, I did end up finding the rare pale pink flowered form of bracteata (forma Helleri). She of course wanted me to send in seeds of those. I can’t wait until they bloom again this year to better photo document them. My cell phone pictures from last year were poor quality.

If interested Here is a article with more science on the genes I had it opened but have not read it.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2263&context=usdaarsfacpub

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#45

Tuesday Night on the Late Show with Seth Myers, in his pseudo-news bit “A Closer Look”, the word ‘quince’ was mentioned 3 times and an actual prop quince fruit was tossed around. That is the first time I have ever heard quince mentioned on a regular network TV show.

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#47

Agreed. But people I actually like have told me they like crunchy peaches. It’s tough competing for the harvest against jackholes.

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#48

It’s amazing lots of stuff hasn’t sneaked in in backpacks or pockets of illegal border crossers?

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#49

The BBC did a write-up on the Pawpaw and there are a few links to click on for a Ted Talk and info about a restaurant.

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#50

Parasitic wasp finally OKed for release in Oregon.

The article says the wasps can be up to 2/3 effective (reduce SWD by 65%)

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#51

Oregon is also working on other species too. Oregon State University professor releases destructive moths, wasps into orchards

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#56

They require payment to read the story. NOT happening.

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#57

I x-ed out of that and was able to read through.

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“When an entire [olive] tree is cut down, the thieves typically cut it up and load the pieces into a pickup truck, selling the wood to lumber yards or firewood vendors…”

I believe that olive wood is also used for charcoal, notably that which is used with the hookahs at Persian restaurants.

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The story
claims it’s climate change
causing high olive oil prices and thefts…

but I’d say it has a lot simpler explanation: poor people need to eat and
inflation (caused by governments spending money they don’t have) means some ‘robbers’ resort to “taking” from others to get by.

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