Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City to the Australian city of Melbourne, he did not imagine he would see. He got a strange sight out of the plane window that has baffled the social media users. He uploaded it on TikTok and it has been seen more than 14 million times since early December. It is believed that he caught footage of Vietnam’s dragon fruit farms, which are lit up at night to trigger flowering and fruiting and extend the growing season.
The usual dragon fruit season runs when the duration of daylight is 12 hours or more per day. According to Atop Lighting, a horticulture lighting manufacturer in China, one way to extend the growing season and increase the yield of dragon fruits is to use LED grow lights during the evening. It has further said on its website that by using LED grow lights, farmers can make the daylight longer and trick the plants into thinking that it is still summer.
Vietnam was a huge exporter of dragon fruit, but the exports have plummeted since the pandemic.
Thousands of people commented on the video posted by Brad Stewart on TikTok. Some users said the lights were dragon fruit farms, but some others were convinced it was a video of confetti on a concert or nightclub floor.
One of them wrote, «My brain can’t do dragon fruit farms. lol. I see confetti.» 95,000 users liked it. Another user reacted, «Genuinely thought ur filming a concert floor full of confetti». It collected 36,000 likes. Someone else joked, «Could be dragon fruit farms or could be the world trying to render ur fast travel speed.»
Some people claimed it was «a glitch in the matrix», the moon reflecting off roofs, or even Christmas lights. One