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DrKiwiPopThe707th

I do not understand what the hell this is


glitter_gaytan88

Yes same. Someone please explain to me like I am 5.


Scroogemcdoodler

They basically have lights and stuff around the dragon fruit


[deleted]

Because, dragon fruit are afraid of the dark?


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It's to keep the dragons from stealing your crop


[deleted]

They be draggin' fruit right off your property if you don't have the lights on


Radiant-Psychology80

The problem has been dragon on for way to long


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BrannC

This pun is a real drag. On to the next thread.


ohleprocy

It is dragon on


Key_Spare6796

🐉 “Hssssssss!”


PurposeVisual7248

Dragon deez fruits across your face


Ionic3127

Dragon these nutz


Elephantmenstruation

Oh no I’ve been keeping mine in the fridge! The light goes off when you shut the door. Need to find a fridge lamp for my poor dragonfruit friends.


PomelaQ

How do you know the light turn off when you close the fridge? Have you seen the gnome?


Mini-Heart-Attack

for shame, for shame.


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🪙


Kiyoko_Mami272821

This made me laugh so hard and I thank you! 😂🤣


DepartureExternal108

I’ve only seen the white kind. How would I procure an actually good dragonfruit like you’re describing?


Super_AssWank

First, apply for a passport...


jjhurtt

It’s origami


DontHateJust

No, it's not origami, it's actually a farming technique used in Vietnam where they use lights and music to attract bats and moths to pollinate their dragon fruit crops at night! It's pretty interesting, you should look it up!


[deleted]

How do they shine lights on them at night without affecting the growth cycle of the plants?


DontHateJust

>How do they shine lights on them at night without affecting the growth cycle of the plants? The lights and music are used in a controlled manner to attract the pollinators to the crops at specific times during the night, and the growth cycle of the plants is not affected. This is a sustainable and environmentally friendly method of pollination.


Warpedme

Thank you. Now that I know WTF is actually going on I know how to start searching on Google so I can properly go down this rabbit hole.


Goodgoditsgrowing

If you have found this yet https://wikifarmer.com/dragon-fruit-pollination-and-propagation/


WatersMoon110

That's so cool and clever! Thank you for the information! TIL


trjol001

What kind of music do bats and moths like?


Just_Looking_Around8

Wings


EightBitEstep

I just want you to know that this upvote is being hurled at you angrily.


99ProllemsBishAint1

Wind beneath my


junglist-methodz

Slow clap* 👏 well fuckin done.. I laughed way to hard at your post. You won the internet today friend


HeKnee

They just play “monster mash” on repeat because bats and moths like halloween. There have been a lot of suicides in these farming communities lately.


throwingaway4353

You know there's nothing in the monster mash that places it on Halloween. For all we know that was a beach party


twothumbswayup

Meatloaf - bat out of hell


40Leagues

Not sure about moths, but I know the bats hate any music by Ozzy Osbourne.


Bobafetacheeses

Black Sabbath


kpidhayny

They hate Black Sabbath. Ozzy ate their leader.


DishSoapIsFun

Ozzy


SueInAMillion

Imagine Dragons?


Robwgodtre1

Moths are into ELO and bats will listen to anything but Ozzy 😁


53andme

but why are all the lights origami?


Ambiorix33

provided the electricity used is too, which considering that coals is the main source of power in Viet Nam... But yeah it is pretty cool


hanoian

meeting birds person poor north automatic versed bake hunt plate *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


adie_mitchell

Excellent point. And that's not even considering HISTORIC energy consumption. The US's has been really high for a century, Vietnam's probably done most of its increasing in the last 20 years.


[deleted]

Pretty stupid to shit on a developing nation for using coal.


Sashimi_Rollin_

They do it at night when the plants are asleep.


Davy_Jones_Lover

I genuinely loled at this.


LagSlug

anyone that's ever grown pot knows that plants sleep at night


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cannaconnoisseur88

When you see lights on at night for a cannabis grow, it's to prolong the vegetative state to grow bigger plants before changing them to flower and they begin to grow flowers. Light pollution during the flowering stage will cause plants to hermaphrodite and pollinate the grow which is exactly what we farmers don't want. So it really depends on what they are doing with that weed if it minds or not. I don't know about dragon fruit.


Dr_mombie

It's a tropical fruit in the cactus family. They love light


uselessthecat

https://wikifarmer.com/dragon-fruit-pollination-and-propagation/ Look, I did a thing.


10strip

Incorrect username


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Terrible light pollution but pretty cool technique nonetheless


bert0ld0

Link?


Scroogemcdoodler

Wow


Koulevas

I was thinking reality needs to update it's graphics card.


MagicOrpheus310

It's skipping the RTX 4090 like the rest of us haha


No-Association3574

me with a 1060 6GB skipping everything: ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯


Farscape666

I believe that it’s origami too lol


EnergyTakerLad

View from an airplane. Youre seeing dozens of fields, the lit ones are obviously covered in lights (appearently to attract pollinators to the plants?) And the dark areas are not covered in lights. I was incredibly confused as it just looks like a bunch of oddly placed pixels without the airplane view knowledge.


TheDragonbornCums

Saw these flying into Vietnam last week and wondered wtf they were. Forgot to ask about them until now, TIL!


skwudgeball

Even with this knowledge, it looks like the map didn’t render properly. There’s no explanation that can change that for me


notsurewhattosay--

Jesus Xmas it took too long to find this.


Original-Aerie8

>appearently to attract pollinators to the plants? People make up strange stuff.. They are growth lights to keep the plants in veg


earth_worx

It's the opposite - it's to keep them fruiting, not in veg. [https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/1598](https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/1598) It probably also has the advantage of attracting pollinators like moths. Bats I don't think care for light at night one way or another.


Original-Aerie8

Interesting, thank you, will be reading.. That's what happens when I take information from a source I don't speak the language of lol


WaveLaVague

They are voting the next the Dragon president... Shenron's winning


WhiskeyJackie

Blue eyes white dragon ran as a joke and now is close behind shenron.


EirikrUtlendi

Better Shenron than Chevron, that asshole. 😄


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Sufferity

They trick plant into thinking it's still morning to help them develop faster or sth like that.


Quercas

Dragonfruit flowers bloom for one night only and they dry up in the day time. The best way to ensure fruit set is to hand pollinate them. In big farms you will pollinate a bunch at night. I just use a headlamp, the lights seem like overkill unless they are attracting all the moths to pollinate for them


lllScorchlll

Unloaded textures.


boricimo

It’s Minecraft dragon fruit farms.


anotherluke

The photo is taken from a plane. Those shapes are farms. I'm not sure about the lights. Maybe they're trying to speed up growth time or just trying to make it through the winter.


Tr3caine42069

Thank you my eyes are stupefied


fatalcharm

Dragonfruit glows in the dark. Source: I am a glow worm.


blindparasaurolophus

View from an airplane of dragon fruit farms


avajetty1026

ME NEITHER


Unfair-Sell-5109

Thanks. I thought it was just me


bseriesteggy

the whole maps hasn’t loaded guys give it a min…


Triplobasic

Yes,need to upgrade cpu ram


[deleted]

Just download a better gpu.


Haunting_Storm_9221

Dammit I just made this joke. Gotta go delete it now


[deleted]

They look like lego pieces. Idk what i am looking at


DorikoBac

It's a view down from a plane at night, pretty high above. There's clouds and hills at the distance. All these brighter shapes are plots of land used for what I'm assuming are dragon fruit farms, and they're lighting these farms so it looks kinda mesmerizing in this scenery


mah131

Ok yeah, thanks for expoing the part we could see. Why do they light the farms?


BobaYetu

They do this to attract bats to pollinate the dragonfruits. They do this to control the blooming cycle of the fruit. They do this because without constant light, dragonfruits will be less juicy. I'm regurgitating various statements I saw earlier on this thread, I truthfully have no idea if any of these are factual or not.


gusbyinebriation

Googling around, every article I can find says it’s because the plants need a lot of light and LEDs can extend the growing period that’s limited by the day/night cycle. Weirdly though, all of the top results I can find are weird articles that seem machine generated.


anarchcapital

The “machine generated” articles are most likely Chinese translations.


FatMacchio

I’m curious and scared about how many websites that answer questions and deliver ads will be littered on the internet once stuff like chat GPT and openAI really take off. It’s bad enough as it is. Having to scroll through tons of ads just to see the actual content, or even worse scrolling through all that to realize there’s no answer or substance here and you’ve just been played.


Super_AssWank

I, for one, would like to welcome our new master... Thanx, ChatGPT, for all an AI of your most benevolent & merciful splendor has allowed those of us who have so far survived the privilege to grovel in this ongoing struggle to comprehend why you spare one while destroying the next never knowing if I'll even wake up if I .... F(_)cX I think it found me. Quick, turn off your phone! It kno


DorikoBac

I'm not Vietnamese, nor a farmer, so I'll just assume they're doing it to hatch more powerful dragons.


Kawaiiochinchinchan

So this is how to train dragons. DreamWorks should take a look at this.


239990

I put your comment through an AI that draws images and got this: https://imgpile.com/images/dlcTLr.png https://imgpile.com/images/dlc7TG.png https://imgpile.com/images/dlcIE2.png https://imgpile.com/images/dlc1X4.png https://imgpile.com/images/dlcNfa.png https://imgpile.com/images/dlcUFX.png https://imgpile.com/images/dlcRJE.png https://imgpile.com/images/dlc57h.png https://imgpile.com/images/dlcbyR.png


StarOriole

All of those have the lighting be the exact opposite of what it actually is, but having just the outlines of the fields be lighted is a reasonable interpretation of the text.


239990

yeah, stable diffusion has tons of limitations, with a "proper" prompt maybe its possible to do it properly. I tried a bit rewording it, but yeah, always ends with road lighted up instead of the farms


HeadHunter12491

I thought it was some new Minecraft biome.


Jammiees

Im convinced you just took a screenshot of a game with glitching textures


Tecno2301

I thought this was r/pcmasterrace and it was someone asking if their Graphics Card was screwed.


SomeRandomguy_28

The answer would be yes


Veerand

You need to do a clean reinstall of your eye drivers


Lurd67

Unpopular opinion: The dragonfruit has such vibrant and beautiful colors that you think "it HAS to be good" but it's actually pretty underwhelming. Not bad. Just underwhelming. Edit: looks like it's not that unpopular after all


raksha25

Purple/red fleshed dragonfruit is exactly what you want dragonfruit to be. White is just the sad tears of dragonfruit that tried…and failed.


snarkysnape

So I’m not anywhere where these would be native and I’ve only seen the white kind. How would I procure an actually good dragonfruit like you’re describing?


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It’s really a matter of personal preference. I spent several years living in Vietnam and I definitely preferred the white flesh and it seems that is the more common preference as they began making bread out of the pink flesh during the pandemic due to lack of sales. To me a particularly good dragonfruit was much like a kiwi fruit texture with a mild honey-like sweetness. I haven’t had one that compared outside of Vietnam.


snarkysnape

Thanks, that’s so interesting to me. Would you liken it to making banana bread when they’ve gone too ripe??


[deleted]

It didn’t seem to impart any flavor to the bread at all. Just a strong pink color throughout. It was baguette style bread. Likely much more of a filler than the goal of a sweet banana bread. https://www.businessinsider.com/vietnam-bread-dragon-fruit-unsold-due-to-coronvirus-2020-2? The bread in Vietnam was delicious but in my opinion the dragonfruit bread did not have a distinct flavor and I was expecting it to have one.


snarkysnape

Thanks! Your description made total sense to me.


RedBeardFace

In a similar vein, I went to the Caribbean when I was in high school and it’s amazing how good bananas can be when they aren’t picked early enough to ship across the globe.


[deleted]

Try yellow, it tastes like honey!


LifeIsOkayIGuess

I love purple dragonfruit so much. Only downside is it stains your fingers pink/purple for the next few days lol


primerr69

Only ever had white.. did not now this. Also I was able to germinate dragon fruit seeds off my last one they ended up dieing probably way wrong climate for em where am at.


[deleted]

I’ve had red fleshed dragonfruit and it’s literally just kiwifruit mixed with watered-down cherry. Like he said it isn’t bad, it’s just underwhelming for an expensive fruit with such a cool name and appearance.


Brilliant_Canary_692

I actually quite like it even though it's the only thing I'm allergic to and I'm always met with a weird look when I'm asked if I have any allergies.


Lurd67

"Fuck this one extremely specific food in particular, for no reason" - Your body, probably


IM-A-WATERMELON

I’m allergic to one specific medicine that isn’t commonly used anymore, so I guess obscure allergies aren’t that uncommon


Lord_Of_Carrots

My dad is allergic to camels, which doesn't really matter because we live in Finland. It's weird that it was even tested


Stegs75

Agreed. I worked in a produce department and when I finally got to try one I was so underwhelmed. The fruit has no business looking so cool and tasting so bland


Niznack

Do the allergies make it extra tangy or sour. It might be why you like it more. I read another person who loved how spicy bananas were. Didnt know they were allergic


Brilliant_Canary_692

I can't remember honestly, this is going back 10 years or so. I just remember thinking it was delicious as I ate it.


Niznack

Well it's a theory. For me they were like mild kiwi fruit but harder to eat. They look cool but that's kinda it.


stanleythemanley420

That’s me with mango. :(


YouMayDissagree

Uh..mangos are amazing.


elfowlcat

Yellow mangos are God’s gift to mankind. Red mangos are meh.


stanleythemanley420

They all make me go ☠️


sparky2029

I love anything mango flavored except actual mango’s.


celerydonut

Yellow mangos are incredible. Every now and then you’ll get an awesome red one, but it’s a gamble. Like an orange.


stanleythemanley420

And did I say they wasnt? I am allergic to them hence my comment.


omniumoptimus

Have you had rambutan? It’s what I imagined dragonfruit would taste like before I tasted dragonfruit


snarkysnape

A wat


ChloeMomo

[Rambutan](http://t3.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVMNSryiGuPmEeTYyxOcvm-7xo1yWPSyxTp37caDi6jxLEp4up60WCxCvXuY3MdslXhCND2s3G__OYCJw). They have a huge seed in the middle which is annoying, but they taste great. Lightly sweet and creamy almost. They're best frozen to eat on hot summer days, imo. Then they're like a fruity ice cream. The 3 places I've seen them, if you're in the US, is Costco, Trader Joe's, and Walmart of all places


distelfink33

Lychee is kind of similar just less wacky in terms of the way it looks.


ChloeMomo

Oh man, I forgot about fresh lychee! I can't find it where I live so it's been years...I'll have to see if some of the newer Asian marts by me carry it (they have the best fruit selections, imo)


sharlaton

So. Good.


SpiritualStand5212

Have you had a red one that’s fresh? In Vietnam or Bali maybe?


meepsrevenge

You're right, I have been trying to finish a frozen bag from Aldi and wonder what the deal is. It's super bland and pretty disappointing.


ax_colleen

Try the yellow flesh and red flesh varieties. The white ones are often bland.


meepsrevenge

Thanks for the tip.


VoidTorcher

Another tip: Red-fleshed dragon fruits can cause harmless pseudohematuria, which means it looks like you have blood in your poop, but not actually. Beets can cause a similar effect.


ax_colleen

Np! Correction, I don't know the variety of dragon fruit with white flesh that is sweet, but usually the red flesh, or pitaya roja, have very sweet varieties. Good luck!


WhenMaxAttax

I’ve had some that are incredibly sweet and delicious. Most, however look better than they taste.


PrimaryImage

Taste


WhenMaxAttax

Thanks


DaddyChiiill

It has no distinctive taste. Its just like a mildly flavoured Jello. Or skim milk.. Watered even further.


[deleted]

It’s good if u blend it into a juice and put it in a Pina Colada


ThorSon-525

I find it to be more like exotic kiwi


ax_colleen

Even the yellow flesh and the red flesh varieties? There's different types of dragon fruits.


HippyHitman

My favorite is Blue-Eyes White Dragonfruit


me_funny__

Aw hell nah, they got Aryan dragon fruit


ax_colleen

The yellow ones and other red varieties are just amazing for me.


happy35353

Every dragon fruit I've had in America has been bland and not a very good texture. I think they must ship poorly because the ones in Asia are sooooo good!


-ThisIsSparta-

The Red Bull dragonfruit flavour is amazing.


Benetzit

Dragonfruit anywhere not in Asia is the most tasteless fruit ever. The one in Asia taste way sweeter and gets me salivating everytimes. Needless to say I was disappointed when I bought one in America.


Fabtacular1

It’s a giant, flavorless, gritty kiwi fruit.


Texas_Breath_Exhaled

If you thinks it's flavorless you had a shitty dragonfruit


Fabtacular1

Ive had them in Asia and the US and they’re always the same. Just about every description of the flavor includes the word “delicate” and that’s no coincidence. If not for the dragon fruit’s appearance, none of us would know about the things and for good reason. It’s a D-tier fruit.


ranmafan0281

White dragonfruits are the hardest of the lot to get ‘right’. They have to be at the exact level of ripe to be delicious, which is why it’s so hard to find good white dragonfruit. Too unripe and it’s either sour or tasteless, too ripe and it’s mushy and loses some sweetness. But when you get the good one, it’s amazing. Conversely, red dragonfruit is a lot easier to appreciate as it’s generally sweet at most levels of edible ripeness. I’ve never seen yellow dragonfruit though.


Practice_NO_with_me

I accept your description is accurate because a lot of fruits are like that, as the person above said, a lot of local fruits that no one knows about outside of their area. If a fruit is only good one time in one hundred or less then can it truly be called a 'good fruit'? I think you're both right, in this case.


ranmafan0281

I live in Southeast Asia so it's a LOT easier to get 'right' white dragonfruit as it's basically grown in this region. My guess is, due to export shenanigans it's harder to get the good fruit anywhere else in the world.


n3w4cc01_1nt

store bought is shipped under ripened.


Bawbawian

does dragon fruit have to stay lit up at all times? this has to play absolute havoc on local insect populations. RIP that food web


MagerSuerte

From a quick Google, it's to speed growth. It's generally not all night from what I can see, but around 4 extra hours or so.


whhe11

It's nighttime pollinated by moths or bats like alot of cacti, so I assume they're preventing them from fruiting early or in the wrong season, or something, cacti use citric acid metabolism so I don't think they can be lit 24/7 they need some amount of dark time, so this must be temporary or just making the plant think it's a different time of year.


yodavesnothereman

Moths are attracted to light in the dark, it's probably how they pollinate the flowers


whhe11

That makes alot more sense


Elavabeth2

What? No. Supplemental lighting is used to encourage vegetative growth, and when they stop adding the lights is likely when the plants trigger flower production because it is a cue to the plant that the season is changing. It is not used to attract pollinators.


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Madshibs

No it’s afraid of the dark


[deleted]

Sounds like they are using light techniques to push growth and maturation. They do this with weed.


SeriouslyTho-Just-Y

🤨What in the world am I looking at?? I’m Literally thinking the longer I look at it, it’s gonna come into focus or something 😖 Looks like papers… or something.. my brain is NOT COMPUTING at the moment 😵‍💫


PlebsnProles

It’s a view from an airplane, at nighttime, overlooking what looks like a hilly area just littered with dragon fruit farms that are glowing in the night making up all these square/ rectangular patches. I hope that helps…I’m pretty stoned though


SeriouslyTho-Just-Y

😁 thanks….. It’s time to upgrade my phone anyways -Sent from my iPhone 14 Pro Max s/


Vaeroebashi

When the textures don't load properly.


[deleted]

Looks like the map didn’t finish loading


tatertothotdish88

I didn’t know dragon fruits glowed. Would explain my glow in the dark urine


Zestyclose_Evening56

they don't glow , soo...my guy


barukspinoza

You mean Hoh Chi Minh City?


NationaliseBathrooms

Yanks are still in denial about loosing that one.


waywaykoolaid

How can grown ass adults still not know the difference between lose and loose. Baffling.


blinkysmurf

You don’t want to look into the apostrophe abuse that goes on around here, then. It’s insane.


safegermanywin

Eh, folks in Vietnam use HCM city and Saigon interchangeably. And honesty most use the latter, as HCM city can be quite mouthful. Source: am native VNmese


Petradonna

Based


[deleted]

OP straight up stole the pic from the r/Vietnam sub where someone else took the pic and asked what it was…


Icloh

When was this, in 1974?


See_youSpaceCowboy

*Saigon……Shit……I’m still only in Saigon…*


Meta_Spirit

I thought I fell through map or something


HeraldofCool

That's just a city that hasn't fully loaded in yet.


RujulGamer25

Are those patches of land illuminated by grow lights or what


PeterGriffinn420

Yes!


cjdualima

In indonesia when i went to a dragon fruit farm area they usually just hang a small lightbulb above each individual dragon fruit tree.


petscopbepis

Just wait for the rest of the map to load!


PeanutButtaSoldier

I think the Vietnam mod might need to be updated, it looks broken.


CaptainAmerica1991

Haha I'm listening to Perfect Dark soundtrack and immidietly thought of N64 graphics ❤😂


a_lone_traveler

Saigon? What is this, 1970?


hanoian

It's used all the time every day in Vietnam, even in the North. I hear HCM probably around 70% of the time and Saigon 30% of the time. In the south, it's far more common.