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  • @[email protected]
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    110 days ago

    Hops are highly sensitive to the soil acidity and minerals in terms of the compounds the plants produce, so sharing plants is largely infeasible, plus because it’s the US many of them are trademarked so there’s no sharing for that reason

    • @FooBarrington
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      110 days ago

      Surely fertilizer and other additions can be used to adjust this, or genetic editing can be used to incorporate some stuff?

      Okay, but almost everything is trademarked, doesn’t mean it can’t be bought/sold?

      • @[email protected]
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        110 days ago

        That’s a lot of expense compared to just importing US-grown hops, as there’s a lot of soil to adjust

        And yeah, trademarks on plants are no joke, there’s a bunch of restrictions on buying/selling them etc.