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Jun 18, 2015 7:55 PM CST
Name: Daniel Erdy
Catawba SC (Zone 7b)
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Most fruits you find in the store are bred for shipping and storage to reach a larger audience not so much taste. There are tons of new fruits however for home gardens that have remarkable taste but the fruits aren't sold in stores because of their short shelf life or are not easily harvested by machine. Please don't let the word hybrid fool you, many great things have been made by hybridizing. I hear marketing people say things like " with a heirloom taste" WTH is a heirloom taste? Don't get me wrong I'm all for preserving old or almost lost varieties but some modern fruits have traits the old ones can't hold a candle to. Take blueberries for example many growers love wild blueberries and say there is none better. Evidently they never tasted Star, Sweetcrisp, or Ravens. For thousands of year man has searched for larger, sweeter, and more productive fruits then breed them to make even larger, sweeter, more productive fruits.
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