Apples to Apples

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• Turun@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually, apple varieties are preserved via grafting. If you take an apple seed, the tree that will grow from it only has 50% of the DNA of the tree that made the apple. So there is absolutely no guarantee that the taste was preserved across generations.

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  • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn it! That was my bit of esoteric plant kkowlwdge

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    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol me too. 30 minutes late I guess.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL :)

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  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Human: I love this apple, I will plant its seeds so I can grow more myself.

    Apple tree: Crabapples crabappley

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought that was what made the meme funny…

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  • rayyy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apple grafting is incredibly easy and cheap. All you need is a bit of knowledge, a utility knife, cheap flagging tape and ordinary waterproof wood glue. Planning to procure scions and watching for the bark slip is necessary - usually right around when buds start to break. My first graft was successful. Now I graft all the time. Peaches were a problem for me until I learned that they must be grafted after blossoms drop - usually later than ideal apple grafting time.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apples do not grow true from seed, you get a new variety unless you clone.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just like humans.

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• perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It blows my mind how many apple varieties (“cultivars”) exist.

  Spoiler: over 7,000!

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars

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  • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it’s just over 7000.

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    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, the other number wasn’t even close. I don’t think you’d even be able to fit that many on earth in the solar system galaxy.

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got one!, there are only 3 trees in existence (only 1 mature enough to fruit and 2 cuttings) rn and the apples taste kinda like pears but with an apple texture.

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• Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guy from the maths problem

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• happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  rat-salute I can only imagine how many useful genes that saves.

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• awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Somehow relevant xkcd:

  imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

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• el_twitto@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From my hometown!

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