13 Feb 12 19:36, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>>> 4. Strawberries

 RWebb>> Hadn't yet come to that one either.

 RW>> Then rub your hand over a pineapple the next time you're at the
 RW>> super market. They're in the same class of fruit that bear seeds on
 RW>> the outside.

 ml> really? i wouldn't have thought that...

Pineapple is considered to be in the same class of fruit as Strawberries.

 ml> i've dug mature seeds out of the pulp, yes, very near the outside,
 ml> for my dad to grow...

Nuff said then.

 ml> he/we were quite surprised that they did grow and give (small) fruit
 ml> after some years... in reading about pineapples, we found that a big
 ml> thing in hawaii is checking everything coming in for critters and
 ml> such... mainly so they can try to keep the pollinators out of the
 ml> pineapple orchards so that folk cannot simply get seeds and start
 ml> growing their own...

Hybriding the seeds would do a better job. That's how hybride corn is kept
from growing in the same field next year. This makes farmers buy seed
every year and keeps the hybride corn seed makers in business.

                R\%/itt


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