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...giant tepee in Washington State's isolated Rock Creek canyon, some 200 braves, squaws and papooses of the Rock Creek and Flathead tribes wailed, danced, and thumped tom toms. The occasion: the tribes' annual Root Festival, when members thank the Great Spirit for causing the roots to ripen and the salmon to run. The tepee was electrically lighted; in the grove outside a soft-drink and balloon vendor set up his stand, did a profitable business...
Most of the cargo would have to ripen before being sold. Then it will go to under-18s only; adults must wait for the next shipload from Jamaica...
Portuguese growers in the Azores knew a century ago that burning wood in their hothouses made the pineapples ripen quicker. (It was the ethylene gas in the wood smoke.) Following the principle, Hawaiian pineapple-growers have long been dropping pellets of calcium carbide into the hearts of their yucca-like pineapple plants. Moistened by dew, the pellets give off acetylene (similar to ethylene) which makes the plants bear earlier...
Hawaii's pineapples normally ripen only during three summer months-a short season which puts a costly strain on harvest labor and canneries. Acetylene helped a little, but not enough. Recently, some growers have switched to the long-named chemicals which agricultural scientists call plant hormones (e.g., alpha-naphthalene-acetic-acid). Most plant hormones are still experimental and not in general use, but they are currently the biggest excitement in agricultural science. By all reports, they are working like Disney magic in Technicolor...
...Chiquita Banana and I've come to say Bananas have to ripen in a certain...