Ripening Avocado pears

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I have always wrapped unripe ones in newspaper & dumped in a cupboard to speed up their ripening.
The other day, I was told to put them with bananas.
There were six - time to conduct an experiment !

Put 3 amongst 2 bunches of bananas, and the other 3, wrapped in newspaper & in the cupboard.
The ones sitting with the bananas are almost ripe. The newspaper covered ones are still hard.
Coincidence ??
 
Very interesting. Me and my mom used to love mashed up avo with lots of salt and pepper on buttered toast. YUM.

Anyway....she also always used to wrap them in newspaper in a dark place. Interesting with the bananas. I heard that as soon as one fruit starts ripening it releases a certain chemical or hormone or something. This gets pickedu by the other fruit and they then also start to ripen. Same goes for when they go off. Cant remember now where I heard this and if it is true or not.
 
grantza said:
I have always wrapped unripe ones in newspaper & dumped in a cupboard to speed up their ripening.
The other day, I was told to put them with bananas.
There were six - time to conduct an experiment !

Put 3 amongst 2 bunches of bananas, and the other 3, wrapped in newspaper & in the cupboard.
The ones sitting with the bananas are almost ripe. The newspaper covered ones are still hard.
Coincidence ??
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What you doing with so much bananas?
 
Bananas produce ethylene which can help ripen other fruits.
 
DONT TELL ANYONE, WE'LL BE RICH I TELL YOU, RICCHHHHHHHH
 
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But in all seriousness,this be an ooooold trick :)
 
You should have made a control group as well. :D IE, avos with nothing around them.
 
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