You would think...

You would think as a Horticulture major I would have figured some shit out by now, right? Apparently not. I woke up this morning to find my perfect bunch of bananas (some just right, some a little green, and some completely green to give me the optimal amount of time they would still be ripe) starting to ripen already! Stupid me. I put them next to Melissa's already over-ripening bananas.

If you don't know this little tidbit, the whole "banana in a bag" trick is all made possible by the hormone Ethylene. Ripening fruit produces the hormone and grocery stores either add, or block it to keep their fruit at the best ripeness to sell. Tricky, right? Well fruit doesn't need to be in a paper bag for this little hijinx to happen. Not thinking about the fact that the older bananas would be practically breathing Ethylene down my bananas' stems I condemned my bananas to an early end, and me to have to eat them all ASAP!

Sad day!