Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
by creamynebula on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:54PM
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We have quite a few varieties regularly available in every corner store here in Brazil, they all taste quite good if you wait for them to ripe
Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
by hedora on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:22PM
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Bananas went (commercially) extinct decades ago. The things sold in stores today are a different fruit.
Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
by wyclif on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:31PM
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You can still get the smaller, wilder variety in other places in the world. For instance, the Philippines.
Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:55PM
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I remember walking into a small village store in Costa Rica to be confronted by about 10 named varieties of bananas, and noticing in the core a box just marked "apple". It was a cool inversion of the usual pattern in the US (and Europe).
Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday February 12, 2022 @03:44PM
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Every SE Asian country will have a few types of bananas available locally. Even Australia is jumping on the band wagon and I can get a couple more varieties now. I can even get plantains regularly.
But we’re talking about mangoes and bananas and pineapples and calling those “tropical fruit” when there’s so many fruits in the tropics.
Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
by max-ibel on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:57PM
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Apple bananas in Hawaii are delicious and available at the local Costco.
As you say, the “gros michel” cultivar is mostly dead commercially, although there are attempts to get a variant resistant to fungal disease.
I’d like to taste a Gros Michel some day.
Re:Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
by malleefowl on Saturday February 12, 2022 @10:39PM
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Miami Fruit grows then and will ship: https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-order. I’ve never tried it though
I’m happy to be able to eat a banana; merely sorry that the ubiquitous one is such a boring variety.
The consequences of the industrial monocrop banana will be solved soon one way or another: the cavendish is under attack and either it will be replaced or all bananas will go extinct. I suppose Hegel would have appreciated this example.