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Fun fact of the day
Topic Started: Aug 14 2014, 06:17 AM (398 Views)
Elystriana
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That's...definitely.....blue. :huh:

Reminds me of something in a webcomic... XD
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towr
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Hmm.. The picture's fake, at least.
http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Science/blue-strawberries-genetically-modified-by-fish-genes-facts-analysis.html

Well, you know what they say: when something sounds to good to be true...
Still, from the number of people selling it, you'd think it's real. If it's a hoax ebay should pull the listings.
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Snofox Kari
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well, it's easy enough to make blue (or probably more like purple) strawberries without genetically modified seeds....just add food coloring when you water it :lol:
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Elystriana
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That would be kind of fun to try, I think. :P

The strawberry in the picture does look fake, although to me it looks more like someone painted the actual strawberry, instead of just photoshopping the picture. :ninja:
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well, it's easy enough to make blue (or probably more like purple) strawberries without genetically modified seeds....just add food coloring when you water it :lol:
I'm not sure that would work. Wouldn't the roots filter out the coloring?

Though I suppose it has a better chance of success than those seeds off ebay.
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Snofox Kari
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no, they wouldn't...it's an old elementary science experiment, water a plant with coloring and you'll see how the plant takes in and distributes water as the coloring makes its way through the veins to all the plant

usually done with a cutting from the plant, like a flower or leaf, but it works with roots as well
especially with a small one like strawberry patch, regular watering with dyed water should show fairly well (larger plants would require a higher saturation before it started to show, if at all, though tree fruits might show signs of the coloring even if the tree itself doesn't)
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Hmm. I think there are actually whitish strawberries. So blue coloring should work then. But I'm still skeptical. If only because someone surely ought have done it.
And not all colorings are created equal (Just consider the difference between red beets and other equally red foods on your "output").
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yeah, there's be differences depending of the plant as well as the quality of food coloring, and probably also depending on how much you use in each watering (just in terms of saturation, but the end color could be affected the same way

if strawberries weren't so delicate, i'd try this just for the fun of it...but i've never been able to grow a strawberry plant on purpose :Y


i'm not sure these white strawberries are different from normal ones, though... from observations of the plant usually they're from the same plant, just didn't grow properly or get the right nutrients, but mostly just not nearly ripened yet (at which point it'd probably start off bluer and get purple-ish when it does fully ripen, maybe nearly black-ish at peak ripeness...yummy)
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All the same, I rather want to try to colorize fruit now.

Wondering what kind of water (and food coloring) resources it would take to color apples. How cool would a purple red delicious be though?
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some fruits have been crossbred by use of clippings...i wonder if a nearly ripe apple might stay attached to a short cutting long enough to make it happen

probably be much easier and more effective than trying to get the whole tree ('course, you'd need to somehow get yourself a cutting of your desired fruit tree that has the nearly ripened fruit on it...and it may be a bit delicate, dont want the fruit falling off before you can water it)


...hmm....i have an apple tree, i could probably test this with fujis if we get any this year...but that's pretty much a whole year before they're harvestable

not sure it'd work with a freed fruit....unless you do it the "cheating" way and just soak it in food coloring...ya know? like you do to dye easter eggs? what doesnt get absorbed would roll off the peel and it might end up nice for pranking if only the inside gets colored :lol: "ohmygawsh this red delicious has blue insides!"
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That could be fun. That does complicate the question - even if you got food coloring to get to the apple, would it affect the skin? I think more likely you'd change the color inside, if you could change either.
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i think it might depend on the consistency of the peel, some might show more than others, but surely the inside would be more greatly affected than the peel in the case of an apple (considering they tend to have waxy peels as opposed to other fruits, though a citrus might have similar absorption for outer peel in comparison to the inside)
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The waxy peel might very well keep any color out, because water-soluble dyes probably can't cross that barrier. And if they're fat-soluble, then it'd color the peel.

I suppose you could try injecting it, but that would leave marks.
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could poke smaller holes around the stem and bottom where it's harder to see before soaking it, though :3 still have marks, but not noticeable unless you know to look for 'em
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