Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Pistachios have always been popular among those who knew about them, but America didn’t produce a commercial crop of pistachios until 1976, which explains why I thought “pistachio” was just a color when I was young. Pistachio trees require certain conditions that made growing them in Iran profitable, but not so much in the US.
Any successful trees take a decade to mature, and then only produce pistachios every other year.The botanically inclined experimented with planting the precious trees in the American South and California. But the true start to pistachio domination came with the founding of the Chico New Plant Introduction Station in the early 20th century. Paraphrasing…
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