with all due respect, the idea that eating fruit fromThat is accurate description of this issue: *_No one_* (neither growers, nor distributors, consumers, researchers and / or communicators) has questioned the validity of grafting fruit trees, and no comprehensive (or even limited) research has been ever realized showing that grafting is an innocuous practice. In fact, all you've got (other than the supposition that it must be OK because everyone does it - like cigarettes and DDT used to be at one time), is ME! Douglas Hinds. A guy that pops out of nowhere and says: I (as distinct from you and practically everyone else) have walked both paths and can safely say they're not the same. If you made me a present of all the grafted fruit I could eat for the rest of my life, I wouldn't eat a single one. I wouldn't even give it away because I'd be committing a fraud. It looks like one thing but in fact ISN'T at all what it looks like.
grafted clones instead of seedlings is somehow compromising to the health
qualities of said fruit seems a little off the beaten path of logic to me.
I would say the opposite is more likely true if varieties were selected forNot if Calville Blanc seed had been planted
more nutritious qualities- Calville Blanc, for instance, has many times the
vitamin C content of most apple varieties and judging from the flat taste
of most seedling apples, I suspect seedlings are often nearly devoid of
this important nutrient. Without grafting, Calville Blanc would have
disappeared hundreds of years ago when the original tree died.
Because of the huge genetic diversity of apples, CB's seedling offspringI guess you've never heard of marker assisted breeding.
would mostly
be without this attribute and you would have to wait at least 8 years to
have any idea of the quality of each tree.
The idea of starting with a premise and then trying to find corroboratingI DIDN'T begin with a premise. I was forced to ACCOUNT for negative reactions that were eliminated immediately after being given access to the University of Arizona's groves south of Phoenix, where each tree has a metallic tag on a cable around it's trunk, telling you what the variety and the rootstock . You haven't read my article, either. All I'm getting from you is conjecture and irrelevant analogies.
research is not science even when couched in the vocabulary of science.
More like scientology, but I guess that word's taken.
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