9 things you need to know about N.J.'s sales tax, which may be going down. TRENTON -- In a sudden move, the New Jersey sales tax has become part of the negotiations over a gas tax increase to fund road projects. After talks with Gov. Chris Christie, the Assembly early Tuesday morning passed a bill that would cut the 7 percent sales tax to 6 percent by 2018.
Propagating Breadfruit. Breadfruit is one of the easiest to grow, most abundant fruits for the amount of labor it takes to thrive. It can be prepared in endless ways for a starch or dessert. Propagation of this tree is key for many families to grow it successfully. The first two times I tried to propagate breadfruit were very successful.
Lacking seeds, and thus the capacity to propagate via the fruit, the plants are generally propagated vegetatively from cuttings, by grafting, or in the case of bananas, from pups (offsets). In such cases the resulting plants are genetically identical clones. By contrast, seedless watermelons are grown from seeds. These seeds are produced by crossing diploid and tetraploid lines of watermelon, with the resulting seeds producing sterile triploid plants. Fruit development is triggered by pollination, so these plants must be grown alongside a diploid strain to provide pollen.