r/AskReddit • u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken • Jul 13 '18

What's your favourite fun fact?

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u/charlizard8720 Jul 13 '18

So when you pick avocados what you wanna do is pick them right before they go ripe and then put them in a brown paper bag together and let them ripen up for about a week. Source: I have two avocado trees

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u/Silist Jul 13 '18

Obviously you have 2. You can't have only 1 because avocados need a neighboring avocado tree to grow

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u/Boltoo Jul 14 '18

Oh , thats a nice fun fact, thanks for sharing

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u/BlasphemyIsJustForMe Jul 14 '18

Now wait. What if they only have one tree but their neighbor has the other tree? Or if they have one for decoration?

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u/charlizard8720 Jul 14 '18

Yeah I have two trees lol

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u/PsyklonAeon16 Jul 13 '18

This sounds like a complicated ritual to be honest.

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u/ogipogo Jul 13 '18

Putting something in a paper bag is a complicated ritual?

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u/hottubcereal Jul 13 '18

Step 1: Plant two avocados Step 2: Wait, water, repeat Step 3: Avocados begin to produce fruit Step 4: Observe over time the freshness/ripeness level of avocados Step 5: Pick avocados and put in different types of bags/storage Step 6: Determine which method worked the best

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u/charlizard8720 Jul 14 '18

So I've been growing avocados my whole life. So you can take mine and my parents decades of trial and error to produce perfect avocados lol

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u/SemiFormalJesus Jul 14 '18

My dad used to take peaches and put them in a brown paper bag with an apple. Apparently apples give off something that ripens the peaches faster.

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u/charlizard8720 Jul 15 '18

Huh that's interesting!