Contrary to popular belief, pears still grow in bottles! Whoever doubts this, let him personally repeat what has been done for decades, if not centuries by the skillful hands of experienced gardeners.
More inside than outside
They say that when the first Zhiguli left the assembly line of the Volga Automobile Plant, the lucky ones who managed to buy them were surprised that the outwardly small car seemed larger inside than outside. But this is not the topic of conversation.
Souvenir bottles with liqueur or Calvados, or just vodka, containing a pear or some other fruit, are not uncommon for a long time. But the mystery of how the fruit, which was rather big in size, turned out to be inside, torments many. Indeed, purely technologically, it is not particularly difficult to weld the bottom of the bottle after the notorious pear has been loaded into it. It is more difficult not to burn the fruit.
Considering how many similar souvenirs are brought from abroad, it becomes clear that traditional technologies do not work here. It is necessary to come up with something new, non-standard.
The inquisitive human mind is capable of many things. So it is with various fruits in bottles. If you do not invent nanotechnology, but approach the issue with peasant ingenuity, the result can be simply stunning. However, there is no particular innovation in this process, starting from the 19th century, European gardeners and winemakers were engaged in such pranks, and it is worth noting not without success.
And last but not least, the traffic jam
It's no secret that for the normal development of the same pear you need light, heat, nutrition and the pear tree itself. You can't do without it. In fact, as soon as the future fruit is pollinated and began to develop, it is already possible to carry out appropriate manipulations with it.
They are not as difficult as they might seem at first glance. A fairly strong branch with an ovary is lowered into the neck of the bottle, which is fixed to a tree. Most often, all kinds of plastic nets are used for this purpose.
Thus, on one fruit tree there may be more than a dozen future alcoholic souvenirs. The ovaries develop slowly in bottles fixed on a tree, and the gardener only monitors the process. Helping the tree and the future fruit in the bottle to achieve the necessary conditions.
After the fruits have formed and ripened, I carefully remove the bottles with the contents, remove the stalk and thoroughly wash them, fill them with alcohol.
So it turns out that no one puffs or pushes the pear grown in this way by hand into a bottle, nature takes care of everything, except with a little help from a person. The main thing is not to forget to put a cork in the bottle at last.
