DiningBuzz! - Hybrid Fruits

I was eating a pluot tonight. I looked on wiki and saw that there were many hybrid fruit combinations between the plum and apricot (pluot, aprium, and plucot) and other stone fruits, such as nectarines and peaches. Of these, I have only eaten the pluot before. I was also surprised to learn that the grapefruit, clementine, and Meyer lemon are also hybrid fruits.

What are your thoughts about hybrid fruits and what are your favorites to eat?

Is a nectarine a hybrid? I suspect so. Also, am passionate about Heirloom Tomatoes, particularly, the Cherokee. How about baby artichokes, and baby heirloom carrots and Fingerling potatoes?

I like the tangello, and while I don't have a clue what it is a hybrid of, just that it is, picked up our first Golden Honeydew last week and loved it.

Hybrid anything with cauliflower just looks weird, and never liked any of them.

Cauliflower, cabbages, brussell sprouts and brocolli are all really the same vegetable (as in same species) bred for various features.

I used to be able to pick up grapples (grape/apple hybrid) at my local store but they haven't made an appearance in the last year or two. I just figured the fad was fading in my part of the country.

I used to be able to pick up grapples (grape/apple hybrid) at my local store but they haven't made an appearance in the last year or two. I just figured the fad was fading in my part of the country.

Interesting. I don't see these fruits being able to hybrdise at they're so far apart. Same class of plants but different orders.

A lookup of Wikipedia says they are apples injected with something to give them the taste of concord grapes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C4%81pple

Learn something new every day :)

Hybrid fruits are fine if they are created in the plant equivalent (even in a lab) of a dog screwing a sheep and you get a shog. If they are genetically-modified lab monsters, I don't want to eat them.

Hybrid fruits are fine if they are created in the plant equivalent (even in a lab) of a dog screwing a sheep and you get a shog. If they are genetically-modified lab monsters, I don't want to eat them.

Oh come on, you're talking down one of the industries the U.S. is leading in (genetically engineered/modified crops). Think about if we have no Roundup©-ready wheat and GM/GE soya beans.

Oh come on, you're talking down one of the industries the U.S. is leading in (genetically engineered/modified crops). Think about if we have no Roundup©-ready wheat and GM/GE soya beans.
Seedless grapes would be a no no too (kind of equivalent to a lamb going through IVF).

Seedless grapes would be a no no too (kind of equivalent to a lamb going through IVF).

Seedless grapes predate GM produce by a long time.

The best hybrid fruit I've ever eaten are black velvet plums/apricots. They are the sweetest fruit There is IMO. You have to eat them over the sink. I think they might still be in season but they're expensive (think I paid abut $2 for each little plum) and in season for a very short time.

Bobette

Seedless grapes predate GM produce by a long time.
I wouldn't call 30 years or so "a long time"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberellin

I take it you don't have a problem eating seedless grapes then ;)

I wouldn't call 30 years or so "a long time"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberellin

I take it you don't have a problem eating seedless grapes then ;)

Nope, nor anything like IVF - just the GMO stuff.

Seedless grapes would be a no no too (kind of equivalent to a lamb going through IVF).

IVF is rather natural. No gene-splicing or recombining DNA unnaturally from various species that would never ordinarily meet and mate.

I'd imagine seedless grapes were bred that way. Certainly has been true of many species such as bananas and pineapples, and even Chinese pomelos (the seeds are tiny and vestigial in the latter compared to the human tooth size of the seeded variety).

I enjoyed the pluot so much I actually put 2 trees on my property, had them over a year and both have already produced edible fruits.

Alot of interesting fruits in northern california, if your ever driving up from southern california make sure to roll through gilroy and stop at the farm stands, they sell farm fresh fruits and vegetables. Alot of stuff you dont see in the markets often

I like the tangello, and while I don't have a clue what it is a hybrid of, just that it is, picked up our first Golden Honeydew last week and loved it.

Hybrid anything with cauliflower just looks weird, and never liked any of them.


Honeybells are a hybrid of a Darcy tangerine and Duncan grapefruit. iirc, they are some sort of tangelo.

While I detest grapefruit, I love me some honeybells and look forward to them every January.

Cauliflower, cabbages, brussell sprouts and brocolli are all really the same vegetable (as in same species) bred for various features.

Incorrect. Definitely not all the same species. All the same family, however... Cruciferae

Hybrid fruits are fine if they are created in the plant equivalent (even in a lab) of a dog screwing a sheep and you get a shog. If they are genetically-modified lab monsters, I don't want to eat them.

+1..

who wants to eat lab monsters?..:p

I wouldn't call 30 years or so "a long time"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberellin

I take it you don't have a problem eating seedless grapes then ;)

I was figuring that this might be a case of Wikicrap, but in fact
you misread the article. Thompson seedless grapes existed for
a century before someone sprayed them with gibberellin, which
makes things big, not seedless.

Incorrect. Definitely not all the same species. All the same family, however... Cruciferae

If Wikipedia is to be believed, they are all different forms of the same species: Brassica oleracea. Wiki does quote other sources

If Wikipedia is to be believed, they are all different forms of the same species: Brassica oleracea. Wiki does quote other sources

To what degree can we believe Wikipedia?..

They are pretty much quoted as relevant on search engines..

I like peachcots. They are pretty tasty.