A video capturing a nightscape lit up with neon-colored squares a passenger noticed on an evening flight from HCMC to Melbourne has gone viral on TikTok with over 14 million views.
Brad Stewart noticed the luminescent sight from his airplane window final week and posted the clip on the video-sharing platform, asking “Can someone please inform me what these are?”
His video shortly captured consideration from TikTok customers, with many saying they’re rows of dragon fruit farms illuminated at night time.
A video shared on Brad Stewart’s TikTok account exhibits a nightscape lit up with neon-colored squares from his airplane windown on a flight from HCMC to Melbourne, December 2023.
A person named Jay wrote: “Dragon fruit farms. Synthetic mild to maintain the plant rising longer.”
One other person additionally commented: “Dragon fruit farms with synthetic mild make year-round manufacturing doable.”
Dragon fruit is principally grown in Vietnam’s south-central province of Binh Thuan and in southern provinces of Lengthy An and Tien Giang.
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Dragon fruit farms are lit up with LED lights in Binh Thuan Province. Photograph by VnExpress/Viet Quoc |
For years now, dragon fruit farms are at all times lit up at night time with LED lights as a method to stimulate fruit manufacturing through the low season.
Based on lighting producer Atop Lighting, one method to prolong the rising season and enhance the yield of dragon fruits is to make use of LED develop lights through the night.
“Through the use of LED develop lights, farmers could make the daylight longer and trick the vegetation into pondering that it’s nonetheless summer time,” it stated on its web site.