If breadfruit are not dropped onto a pile of leaves or lowered to someone and they hit the ground, the breadfruit is ruined as it will turn brown within an hour when they normally can be stored for up to one month.

The young man retrieving the breadfruit from this tree, while 30 feet up in the tree, was dropping them on the hard ground and on the roof of the house below him far more often than getting them to fall into a soft pile of leaves below him.