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Old 05-10-13 | 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Rowan
Well the smart arses can have their fun about tossing apple cores in the woods, and say the fruit was locally sourced. That last bit is actually even worse. I work in the industry. The scourge for fruit production are the various fungal infections that are blown into orchards from rampant wild trees that grow from the seeds of apple cores tossed by thoughtless or unaware individuals.


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The chances of an apple tree growing to bear fruit from a core tossed in the woods are probably one in several hundred.....

Apple trees are fungal infection waiting to happen under the best of circumstances.
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