sweet bananas vs plantains
How many bananas are consumed annually compared to plantains:
The United States consumes 6.4 billion pounds of bananas annually, which is more than plantains. In 2023, the US imported 4.65 billion kilograms of plantains, which is a 0.84% increase from the previous year.
average cost of bananas per pound:
As of April 2024, the average price of a pound of bananas in the United States was 63 cents, which is a slight increase from the previous year. However, prices have been around 58 cents for the past seven years. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average competitive price of bananas is 57 cents per pound
6.4B x .63cents= 4.03 billion dollars US
IMO This will be the new frontier of the "cannabis industry".
I've only dipped a toe into understanding Tripodity but from what I gather it isn't something to be done in a small grow room it takes lab-level equipment to confirm the chromosomes. Unless I missing something?
triploid breeding project
Have you come up with a plan of attack? Curious about doing something like that myself. Or at least I was before I saw that a cytometer cost $25k
and realized I'd have to sift through 100's if not thousands of mutants to find something worthwhile. Most mutants I have come across are shitty in some way (deformed, slow, won't germ or flat-out die). No ones winning POTM with
and the so-called sterility of the males makes breeding with them absolutely hard.
All that took the wind out of my sails. But don't get me wrong you could find a cut that could be distributed into the world that its abnormality is super high THC and that alone makes it worth the hustle.
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