"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
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> wrote in
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>>> > I love almonds. I am not sure why anyone would demonise
>>> > them?
>>>
>>> When it takes 20 gallons of water to grow one and you are in
>>> the middle (or beginning) of an epic droiught it makes for an
>>> easy target.
>>
>> It takes one gallon of water to grow an almond, but 3.3
>> gallons of water to grow a tomato. Almonds sell at a premium
>> compared to tomatoes.
>
> That is cracker economics at its most risible. You cannot grow a
> single almond, you have to grow a tree which will produce many
> almonds (I would imagine close to 100 almonds per tree if my
> experience in Andalucia is similar), each if them requiring a
> "gallon" (or more accurately 4 litres) of water. You can however
> grow a few tomatoes instead of a hundred.


WAY more than 100 almonds per tree.

On 5/24/2015 3:38 PM, taxed and spent wrote:
> "Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
> ...
>> wrote in
>> :
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>>>>> I love almonds. I am not sure why anyone would demonise
>>>>> them?
>>>>
>>>> When it takes 20 gallons of water to grow one and you are in
>>>> the middle (or beginning) of an epic droiught it makes for an
>>>> easy target.
>>>
>>> It takes one gallon of water to grow an almond, but 3.3
>>> gallons of water to grow a tomato. Almonds sell at a premium
>>> compared to tomatoes.
>>
>> That is cracker economics at its most risible. You cannot grow a
>> single almond, you have to grow a tree which will produce many
>> almonds (I would imagine close to 100 almonds per tree if my
>> experience in Andalucia is similar), each if them requiring a
>> "gallon" (or more accurately 4 litres) of water. You can however
>> grow a few tomatoes instead of a hundred.
>
>
> WAY more than 100 almonds per tree.
>
>
But regardless it still works out to roughly a gallon per nut.

"taxed and spent" > wrote in
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>> That is cracker economics at its most risible. You cannot
>> grow a single almond, you have to grow a tree which will
>> produce many almonds (I would imagine close to 100 almonds
>> per tree if my experience in Andalucia is similar), each if
>> them requiring a "gallon" (or more accurately 4 litres) of
>> water. You can however grow a few tomatoes instead of a
>> hundred.
>
> WAY more than 100 almonds per tree.

In 1967 in Andalucia, a non-commercial tree would not have produced
as much...but I was merely showing how ludricous the comparison
was.

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