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Fact-check: planting red apple with Colgate toothpaste 

By Rashidat Oladele

 

Claim:can tooth paste and grape hasten apple germination?

 

The approach demonstrated in the video, which varies from the traditional method of planting red apples, was shared on Instagram by user @mei garden, who has over 416 thousand followers. The user claims that there is a way to plant apples in the comfort of your house using a few simple things. Since then, 15.5k likes, 13.3k shares, and 416 comments have been made on the post.

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1i0XSfSFkY/?igsh=MXJ6eWh0OTF0amE5bQ== 

NatureNews, Africa’s No. 1 nature publication was committed to presenting factual insights to the public, and especially consumers of social media contents.

 

Findings:Naturefact, the factchecking unit of Natures news has done an intensive research on google search tool

 https://www.almanac.com/plant/apples On a full guidelibe on how apple is planted although grafting https://iowaagliteracy.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/why-do-they-do-that-grafting/ is used in farming, the grafting technique used is different from what was portrayed in the movie.

 

Verdict: False the video is misleading to ignorant viewers and farmers intending to try a faster method

 

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