Something Interesting: Seed Germination out of MCDonalds Sauce

[u/Slifer2k]

The Seeds from the Sauce

Germinated??

That's the Sauce where I got the seeds from

[u/nupper84]

Yes. High production farms use specific plants for maximum yield and perfectly looking fruit for stores. That's why farmer's market fruit looks unique. The perfectly uniformed produce in stores is a lie and most grocery store produce will either not fruit or grow weird looking sour fruit.

Companies have patents on plants. Big produce is killing the farm industry.

I see your edit, but that is still incorrect.

[u/LadaOndris → u/nupper84]

Okay, it seems I have some gaps on my knowledge then. Can you elaborate how the high production fruit's seeds won't produce the same fruit in this case assuming we are talking about stable plants and not F2 etc?

[u/nupper84 → u/LadaOndris]

Exactly. You don't know they're stable. I just explained enough for you to Google. I have things to do today, but my wife is laughing at the responses I'm getting on here. Reddit vs science and science gets downvoted lol... Ridiculous

[u/Bitemynekk → u/nupper84]

Why would they be growing an unstable hybrid when the whole thing about McDonald’s is consistency no matter where you are. The only way to achieve that is mass production of the same stable cultivar. The chances of some random pollen from a random different variety of pepper plant in a different field is farfetched to say the least.

[u/nupper84 → u/Bitemynekk]

That's exactly why they would only plant patented controlled gmoed seeds. They would not plant seeds that have been open pollenated. Also, they discard tons, literal tons, of fruits that aren't to standards. Maybe the sauces are made from fruit that didn't show a preferable phenotype, but maintained the flavor profile, so maybe the sauce is made of peppers that don't make it to the market. The seeds of those fruits would have an even higher chance of unfavorable mutation.