Brian Just

Sweet pepper breeder. Passionately promoting creativity in plant breeding! 🎨 🧑🏼‍🌾🧬📈🫑

[Brian Just @2BJust]

It’s harvest time in Florida. Each bag contains fruit from a single plant that has been crossed to a specific other line. Seed will be extracted and plants grown from it will be evaluated in the next cycle. Chances are, it won’t be good enough. #plantbreeding

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@PecanC8 Not true. Lobe count on bell peppers has nothing to do with the “sex” of the pepper. Pepper plants are hermaphroditic and have male and female parts on the same flower. Lobe count is due to a combination of genetics and environment. There isn’t any difference in flavor either.

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@PecanC8

[Brian Just @2BJust]

Lobe count in bell peppers can range from 2 to 5 or more. It is determined by a combination of genetics and environmental conditions at the time of fruit setting. It has nothing to do with the sex of the pepper! More on that later...
#bellpeppers #peppersex #supermarketbotany

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@feelsdesperate Have you been to Sinaloa?

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@feelsdesperate You have never had Sinaloan seafood, it seems. I’ve been all over the world and I stand by my opinion that Sinaloan seafood is the top cuisine i have encountered.

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@RamonaRichey @johncardillo @GovRonDeSantis No. Which is exactly why they will want to raise revenue in some other way.

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@RamonaRichey @johncardillo @GovRonDeSantis It’s still not clear whether and how other things would change. I can be convinced but I’m looking for clarity. Would love to see some county and local governments come out in support and explain how this tax elimination won’t have any effects on services or anything else.

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@BenStrine2 @DearOldState_16 @TrynaBeLogical @JordanSchachtel That would be a great outcome.

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@FlimflamSlim @TrynaBeLogical @JordanSchachtel I won’t vote for it until I see the plan for the other tax increases. Devils in the details. Sure no property tax sounds good, but what is the alternative? Will disproportionately affect low/mid income families? I can be convinced, but they need to sell it by being transparent

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@jonbrooks @RonDeSantis That’s exactly the point. Show me the alternative. You have to know this in order to vote yes.

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@flanders_tim Apparently it’s affecting some productions now from what I’ve heard. Did it all start in the nursery then spread to the production? Or did some of the field infection start from inoculation from field sources?

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@psimatrix @Suzierizzo1 It’s just misinformation. Many reasons why the field would be left unharvested (disease, low market price). Most farm workers are here legally on H-2A visas.

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@Suzierizzo1 There are many reasons a field would be left unharvested. This happens sometimes when the price of watermelon is too low to make it worthwhile to harvest (caused by overproduction usually). Most farm workers are H-2A visa holders and not illegals and are still here and working

[Brian Just @2BJust]

Are these actual existing gene edited products or just ideas of them? Wasn’t aware there were many products available after all the hype. Would be cool if it actually delivered.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Is this one of the benefits of Brexit?

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@Rainmaker1973 I usually top off the toothpicks with wood glue

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@davidpattersonx Try automating bell pepper breeding. I feel safe in my career for now. The amount of specialized equipment and software needed would be incredible. I have been hearing about robotic harvesting for over a decade with little progress. Harvesting is one tiny piece of the puzzle

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@DarcangeloJim @VladTheInflator Our financial systems and Ponzi schemes such as housing and social security won’t function properly with an extremely low fertility rate as we have. Need immigrants of some sort to prop up asset prices. Why this particular group? Probably because many will stay and be productive

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@davidpattersonx I’ll begin to maybe believe it when I get a good automated telephone menu. Still not there after decades of trying (?). Hell, my oil change still takes 3 people.

[Brian Just @2BJust]

@davidpattersonx Utterly wrong. Get out from behind your computer screen. 2030 is less than 5 years away. So in 5 years all the stuff that people do will already have a robot that has been designed , tested and perfected? No one even really understands what I do somehow I’m going to be replaced?