Need help🫤....effing title too short 😡🤬😡

A few days ago I got given a whole bunch of fresh lemons off a friends tree.
I put them straight into my fruit bowl .

It's only been like 5...6 days - and they've gone mouldy !

The apples and the limes I have in there, (and were there first ), haven't .

So my questions are :
1. Do I have to wary be now of my other fruit doing the same ?
2. If so, how do I stop that ?
3. And why did the lemons get moldy in the first place ?

Anybody?🤷

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dirge

I think you might have uncovered one of the big drivers behind the wax they put on most fruit.

OogieBoogie · F

@dirge better wax than pesticides I suppose

dirge

@OogieBoogie even with pesticides, I think they wax most commercially produced fruit.

OogieBoogie · F

@dirge I do know that some fruits naturally have a type of waxy coating ...like apples .

I've picked some that almost seemed sticky they had so much natural wax on them.

It's hard for me to relate as in aus I don't think food producers do that here .

dirge

@OogieBoogie oh. maybe not. per wikipedia it's almost all for visuals of the fruit anyway, so theory may be blown. I've never heard of using wax in place of a pesticide. I've seen places that use a thick, sticky soap, but ... I dunno, I think I might have started with a point, but here we are.

OogieBoogie · F

@dirge hahahah 😂