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Old 02-12-2010, 07:42 AM
raymr raymr is offline
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Originally Posted by cmac2012 View Post
Why you greenie you. I sorta lean that way myself but this is not GMO type crossing but the older, more organic variety, at least I'm pretty sure that's what he's referring to.
True. It's a long process that involves waiting for each new cross-bred generation to grow up and produce nuts. They have to do that about 6 times. I was part of a group in Maryland that prepared a plot for new saplings, and the biologists involved gave a few talks about it. Interesting stuff.
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