A couple of days ago, I came upon a pomelo fruit at the roadside along my usual walking route. The fruit was in great shape and I assumed it fell from a nearby tree that grew along the fence of one of our neighbors. One thing going for the pomelo or suha as it is also called is that it has a thick skin/shell that doesn't easily break should one fall from a tree. That's true even if it fell to the concrete pavement.
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| The pomelo I found was in great shape and I assume was already ripe from the tree (hinog sa puno) |
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| Other fruits are not as fortunate. Our neighborhood streets are full of ripe mangoes that are crushed upon hitting the pavement. |
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| We could not reach the mangoes that grew from the top branches of the tree at our home. Many just fall in our garden beyond the net that we set-up to catch old branches and leaves from the tree. |
Other fruits in our neighborhood end up like the mangoes in the previous photos. When in season, there are a lot of crushed kaimito, avocados, and santol on our streets. Is there a way to save these, probably harvest the fruits and put them up for sale? Revenues can be shared among resident-owners of the streets and whoever will be making the effort to help harvest and coordinate with owners of the trees.
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