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Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by cperciva on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:27AM (#27927816)
Are they the same varieties? Vegetables grown to be sold in stores are selected largely fit their shelf lives, to minimize the loss during the lengthy distribution and sale process. Your garden grown tomatoes are probably a different variety... and almost certainly much fresher.
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Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by BiteCode_dev on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:05AM (#27928017)
No, 2 years ago I ate amazing cherry tomatoes from a friend garden. He told me he didn't plant them, they came out themself out of the shitty store bought ones that he discarded one day.

The variety matters, but that's not the end of the story.

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Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by PeterisP on Friday July 23, 2021 @04:43AM (#27928561)
The other issue with many plants is that they're picked before they're ripe - if you'd eat it straight away, you'd wait longer before picking and it would be tastier, but as you want them to survive transportation and long waiting in store shelves, you're picking them long before they're fully ripe.
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Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by BiteCode_dev on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:27AM (#27928811)
Of course, it's a collection of things, but it's not true for tomatoes in can, which you can put in right after the harvest. And my ex house mate cans from the garden would always feels like fruit juice while the supermarket one, well...
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Re:RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% by jazzyjackson on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:55AM (#27930668)
Tomatoes can crossbreed, so the seeds of one plant are not necessarily the same variety as the parent.
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