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California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (www.sfgate.com)
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don't bother, those varieties are still pretty bland. They were still bred for shipping AKA firmness. So they were very slightly better than the ones you normally find at the grocery store.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    My county's extension office does a spring fair where they sell about a hundred varieties of heirloom tomato seedlings. They're not bred for grocery stores and are delicious

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Eventually when I retire, I am thinking of doing a little backcross breeding on OP tomatoes. Pulling in all the modern disease resistance package into the older varieties would make growing them much easier.

    The hardest part is finding a pathologist to run the screens. I could also speed it up a bit with molecular markers but you can never completely trust them. You have to run the pathology screens.

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