Is it against patent to cross pollinate with a patented apple?

General Fruit Growing
#42

I wasn’t speaking to how to judge apples. If i had more land and fewer squirrels, I’m sure I’d enjoy breeding apples, and i think I’d have decent odds of growing apples that appeal to me.

I was just commenting that both the “it takes 10,000 trials” and “it’s easy to breed an apple you’d like to eat” are likely true. They aren’t in contradiction to each other, because the demands on a commercial breeder are vastly greater than the demands on the back yard fruit experimenter.

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#43

^this

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#44

Part of the thing with what’s in the supermarkets is they demand the apples look super (ususally shiny red) and keep for months…even a year…in controlled atmosphere cold storage.

And it’s about money. Not about the best apple. Profit makes the world go around…socialist USSR couldn’t feed it’s people via collective farms. I understand profit isn’t a bad word.

But, a lot of really fine apples are excluded in the current system of big everything.

#45

Triploid apples are the way to go!
They’re amazingly resistant to almost everything and have more genetic diversity in them!

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