Post #120784 by Gigantalope on Thu, Oct 21, 2004 8:43 AM

THe limes are not the same...although they can be different than each other...and will often be sweeter on the sother part of a tree.

Here's the part I find a crushing blow...for 5000 years we've gone from gatherers to having supermarkerts (where we are sort of gatherers again) but in that time we now only have about 5% of the fruits that once existed available...the rest only exist in seed banks, mostly in the Russia and a smaller one in Colorado.

The variances are almost exclusivly varieties of apples or pears which became unpopular for one reason or another...but the big fear is that as we get further and furth tied to these hybreds a pest or scourge could be a massive global problem... like the potato famine...over the entire planet.

The fruit market is driven by money, and the ones that sell are the ones that look like postcard fruit. Even worse is that SEEDLESS fruit sells far more than varieties with superior taste.

Growers gotta grow what Moms will buy...it's wierd to see phtos of acres of sawed down trees going in for new grafts on the root stock or just new fruit...Here in Ca, they mostly plant houses where Groves were...sometimes grapes in recent years...

I typically buy the fruit that looks like it's been in a fenderbender, and has seeds. Try it, and see.