Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 18, 2023

Pluggers only playact at being country folk for the aesthetic; they know nothing about agriculture.

let’s not forget seedless grapes when on a vine

The original pluggers started out as country boys on farms!

Hmm …

On another farming conundrum, I’ve separately ordered a chicken and an egg off of Amazon……I’ll let y’all know.

Bananas have a similar issue.

Almost all Banana trees come from cuttings.

It’s amazing what agricultural laboratories do to clone plants in Petri dishes. And therein lies a danger in such monoculture. An insidious disease can take hold in vast fields and wipe them out entirely. Genetic diversity is desireable despite the inconvenience and cost.

Treeless orange groves.

Nope … Never wondered about that one ;-)

Same place seedless bananas come from: clones!

The good orange fairy?

Seedless plants are not common, but they do exist naturally or can be manipulated by plant breeders without using genetic engineering techniques. No current seedless plants are genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Seedlessness to the plant is useless since it fails to produce offspring, that is why most seedless plants are propagated through grafting or cuttings (cucumber and watermelon being exceptions). However, it is a heritable trait carried on through pollen and maintained in the gene pool until the right parental combination again occurs to produce a plant with seedless fruit. [ https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/seedless-fruit-is-not-something-new — Michigan State University]

Seedless watermelons are hybrids created by cross-pollinating a male watermelon with a female watermelon flower. They were first produced by a plant geneticist named O.J. Eigsti in the 1940s.

Seedless cucumbers are “parthenocarpic” — the flowers transition into fruit production without any pollination. However, if pollen gets in the flower from a nearby standard pickle field, the fruit will develop with seeds.

Immaculate conception of course! God can do anything, but I often winder what happened with the Duck Billed Platypus.

Eh me bearly waste time thinking about delicious fruits. Me just eats them.

I wonder the same thing.

GMO’s baby….. scary, but true.

I wonder why they sell “Cage Free” eggs. How do the yolks know if they’re in a cage or not?

Hey if they’re seedless how come im still going to seed no matter how many i eat . . .

Not a dumb question… it represents sophisticating farming know-how.