#fruittoot — Public Fediverse posts
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New Zealand apples on the world stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoXXO0M_BA #PlantBreeding #FruitToot #NewZealand
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RE: https://tech.intersects.art/@pomological/117047341068070614
Image description: Watercolor and gouache painting of fairly standard Pyrus communis pear shape. Yellow flesh with a slight blush.
Looks nothing like the thighs of any nuns I happen to have seen... But what a cultivar name!
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Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project
https://montezumaorchard.org/ #Colorado #FruitToot #Horticulture #GermplasmConservation
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Colorado's Gold Mountain Orchard preserves over a century of historic apple varieties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrrezIefgrM #Colorado #FruitToot #Horticulture #GermplasmConservation
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Blairgowrie fruit farmers call for help
"A Perthshire farmer is opening his cherry orchards to the public, as he can't make a profit from selling the crop.
After more than 100 years growing soft fruit in Blairgowrie, the Thomson family is ending commercial production, saying rising labour costs and cheap imports have decimated the business." -
5,000 Pears stolen in Fukuoka: Heartbreaking decision after 'another fruit theft'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CaTHAlpcvI #FruitToot #Agriculture #AgriculturalTheft #Japan
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could use your donations in the donation jar. Be on best behavior because I really have seen some selfish behavior at these tastings...
But it is a great opportunity to taste fruits and fruit cultivars that are hard to find in supermarkets.
Saturday July 25, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM You must RSVP and space is limited.
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Armenia's Apricot Trade Under Pressure After Russian Restrictions Hit Farmers | World Business Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v569LoGNMd0 #FruitToot #Russia #Armenia
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Well, if I had 'Newtown Pippin' available, I'd throw my 'Granny Smith's overboard, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fOTHtCcYIc #NorthCarolina #FruitToot #Shipping
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@Karen5Lund Well, we do refer to the "flesh" of the fruit...
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In English, we call Prunus fruits that have pits "stone fruits".
I just found out they're "bone fruits" (fruta de hueso) in Spanish.
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Haskap are fruits of a plant in the honeysuckle family - Lonicera caerulea.
There are breeding programs in Russia, Japan, Canada, and select northern states in the US.
They're self-incompatible, so if you want to try them in your garden (if you live someplace cold), you'll need a compatible pollinizer variety.
https://research-groups.usask.ca/fruit/Fruit%20crops/haskap.php #PlantBreeding #Canada #FruitToot
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Haskap berries are the new superfruit
Seems like this piece is more an ad for this farm that really informative about haskap. They should have talked to breeders at U of Saskatchewan.
Be careful about "superfood" claims. Basically, even with healthy foods, they have different nutritional profiles and they differ by cultivar & how/where they're grown in their nutritional profiles, as well as how they're prepared and served.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fq0UA1l3is #PlantBreeding #Canada #FruitToot
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@celesteh @dulcedemon Yes, this was common procedure in California, for instance. Farmers have long used cheats to get the temps up and save their crop. https://everythingfallbrook.org/2026/01/11/citrus-orchards-on-olive-hill-used-to-use-smudge-pots-to-keep-the-fruit-from-freezing/
The thing I was suggesting was just getting enough humans out there to do it by body heat and camping lights alone to see if it helps as much or not.
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market has rediversified a little bit, but this needs to happen in other fruit crops as well.
These varieties differ not just in taste, texture, aroma, and appearance, but in their tolerances to heat/cold, wet and dry. Also in when they develop and harvest. Since you can't predict far in advance when you'll have an early or late frost, when there will be an early heat event...having a diversity of cultivars could mean that more of your crop survives. #FruitToot #ClimateChange
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Weather Whiplash Decimates Pennsylvania Fruit Crop
This is one of the challenges plant breeders and farmers face - for temperate tree fruit crops that go dormant for winter and emerge "when the coast is clear", what happens when the coast is not clear in Spring?
It's not unprecedented to have a crop emerge and get devastated by late frosts. What's new is how often it's happening and how dramatically...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTtWZnWgTME #FruitToot #PlantBreeding #ClimateChange
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A Tale of Two Fruits | Lost LA | S9 E2
I wish the funded PhDs I'm seeing had more to do with this (horticultural science, germplasm conservation, and history) and less to do with training machines to put people out of jobs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOny3R7upas #LosAngeles #SouthernCalifornia #FruitToot #Pomology #Botany
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This man was part of the Albanian diaspora in Greece and returned home to start a cherry orchard operation on the hillsides of Godolesh.
They grow several varieties and hand harvest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3wb9ZDA7RY #FruitToot #Horticulture #Albania
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Fruit growers sound alarm over watering limits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyYa1EKWRmc #FruitToot #ClimateChange #Horticulture #Canada
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Another advantage for home gardeners of not having to prioritize for shipping and long post-harvest storage is that they can also do research to choose the cultivars best suited to their microclimate and soil.
When a trait you want is close on the chromosome to another trait you don't desire, making it hard to breed for the traits you want without a trade-off, that's called "linkage drag".
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Breeding fruit involves choices. Sometimes one trait that is desirable isn't easily obtainable without losing or getting less of another trait that's even more desirable. Who the fruit is bred for matters - is it for mass production & distribution by professional growers or is it for home gardeners?
This is an example of shipping qualities being among the top traits they're breeding for - breeding for professional growers who will be shipping long distances.
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If you like Martinelli's (non-alcoholic) cider, I suggest you contact them and remind them that you like what 'Newtown Pippin' contributes to their apple cider blended flavor and you'd like them to keep supporting Watsonville growers of this cultivar.
If you live around that part of California, you can also support these growers by buying apples at their farm shops and support hard cider and other companies that use their crops. Let's keep 'Newtown Pippin'!
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'Newtown Pippin' is sweet enough for fresh eating, but has a tart kick for those of us who like our sweet on the tart side. It also has a white wine-like complexity to its flavor which is why it's a major component of Martinelli's famous taste.
It is also a good component of hard apple ciders, which is why the farmer being interviewed is trying to shift to selling his crop to the various craft cider makers around. #FruitToot
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'Newtown Pippin' is a US variety of apple that originated as a chance seedling in NY in the 18th century. The fact that there are fewer and fewer acres of it in the US (in the places where it can be grown well) is a real tragedy.
If Martinelli's stops buying as much, there's a lot of pressure to convert the orchards to another crop, like wine grapes. Market pressures did that to 'Gravenstein' apples in Sonoma and Napa counties. We lose agrobiodiversity when that happens. #FruitToot
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Martinelli's cancels contracts with Watsonville apple growers, raising concerns
The report doesn't mention it, but Martinelli's taste doesn't come from just any ol' apples. A major component of its tastes comes from my favorite apple variety - 'Newtown Pippin'. That is the variety those Watsonville growers are growing. Those used to be *the* green apple in stores when I was a kid, but it has been supplanted by the inferior (in my opinion) 'Granny Smith'.
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could use your donations in the donation jar. Be on best behavior because I really have seen some selfish behavior at these tastings...
But it is a great opportunity to taste fruits and fruit cultivars that are hard to find in supermarkets.
June 14, 2026
https://registration.ucdavis.edu/Item/Details/1388 #FruitToot #Horticulture #PlantBreeding
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Cherry Harvest Day | Homemade Juice, Jam, Compote & Cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVlebnhtMn8 #FruitToot #Horticulture #Albania
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you probably wouldn't see in Czechia or Greece.
But saying "produce here is higher quality because you don't see cloned varieties here" is just an ignorant statement and it does people a disservice by miseducating them about fruit and produce. What makes for quality is a different thing.