LibertyLizard

It’s been a good year. It’s probably past time to pull out some of the summer stuff and plant some fall crops but I always have a hard time pulling out healthy plants. The tomatoes in particular look good but have very little fruit.

A chimeric citrus that should have greatly improved hardiness. Are there other fruits where this could have merit? They will need to be graft compatible and have species with differing hardiness. Also, they would need to have fruit that develop from different parts of the meristem than the rest of the plant. This is true with citrus but I have no idea for other plant groups.

I haven’t checked graft compatibility for all of these but here are some preliminary ideas of species that could have their cold hardiness improved with this technique:

Peaches: apparently only minor hardiness differences for some varieties, so likely not with the effort.

Almonds: early blooming might be problematic. Hardiness difference with other stone fruit is about 10F, so there is some benefit here.

Avocados: apparently quite narrow graft compatibility, only grafts with closely related species from similar environments. I couldn’t find much information on their environmental tolerances but it does not seem promising.

Black sapote or other tropical Diospyros: so many species here and most are not well tested, but apparently black sapote (hardy to 28F) is graft compatible with the very hardy American persimmon (-25F). This is a stunning 50 degree difference although it seems unlikely a chimera would be quite this hardy. What would happen with a chimera between an evergreen and deciduous species? Would dormancy, important for frost protection, be disrupted? American persimmon is also fairly heat and drought tolerant. This is the most promising yet, though having never tried black sapote, I don’t know if it’s worth the effort.

Tropical figs? Are any worth eating?

Mulberries—a few more tropical varieties exist

Any others that come to mind?

Could this technique also improve drought and heat tolerance?

What could be more important than traffic throughput?

CW: Animated traffic violence

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/37264540

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25092390

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State law bars police from sharing data from automated license plate readers with federal agencies. They're doing it anyway.

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Hi all, as you may have heard, this instance is unfortunately shutting down at the end of the month. As far as I know, this is the only Lemmy foraging community, so I’d like to keep it going elsewhere if possible.

Does anyone know of or wish to create another foraging community?

If not, I’d be happy to make one on slrpnk.net. There used to be one but I think it was closed due to mod inactivity.

I’m not sure if Lemmy is big enough to sustain such a niche topic yet but if there is still interest in this community I’m curious if there is another similar one or if one should be started?

I got to thinking last night that theoretically, with enough hair, the air resistance would slow you down so that your terminal velocity would be low enough to land unharmed. How long would it need to be? How would one go about calculating this?

I assume you need some kind of drag coefficient and a density for hair to start with. Not sure where to find that information.

Not exactly traditional foraging but I have a lot of these that grow without care in untended parts of my garden and I’ve heard they are edible. The tubers are decent size for something that isn’t a crop and I could harvest a good number pretty easily if I wanted.

However, the sources I find online that talk about their edibility don’t seem too reputable, so I’m curious if anyone has first-hand experience. Are they safe to eat in quantity? Any preparation tips?

Please share any knowledge you have!