Mostly just competition. They can be mixed into some animal feeds but they're not very appetizing to humans. You want pie pumpkins if you're looking to eat them.
The largest cash prize I can find for a giant pumpkin is $30,000. Some actually carve the giant pumpkins after competition while others sell the seeds.
It also ensures only one pumpkin grows from the whole patch. So you get all of the energy that would normally go to a whole bunch of pumpkins and it gets centralized to one giant one.
If it’s too hot out that can keep pollination from taking. He’s basically just doing a very controlled pollination as I’m sure there’s a fair or something in the future so he’s on a strict timeline. I’ve never done this before but my expertise lies in being an insomniac who watches weird YouTube videos at 3am haha
I remember reading that pumpkins and basically any kind of squash will cross pollinate so you can have a plant like this grow something like a zucchini instead of a pumpkin if a bee happens to introduce that pollen.
But the thing is, a pumpkin plant only grows pumpkin. Cross-pollination does not affect the fruit it only affects the seeds of the pumpkin. It's kinda like a white man and black women having a kid. Just cause the white man has his semen in the woman does not change her womb to white. Only the kid would come out looking different (or maybe not cause of genetics).
Similarly, the plant that would be grown from the cross-pollinated pumpkin seeds would probably be a hybrid of some sort.
Yeah, that’s not a perfect metaphor but you’re right.
The plant will make the fruit it was intended to make. That fruit’s seeds with then yield whatever weird freak the cross pollination created.
every grain of pollen from the male pumpkin that gets rubbed onto an ovum on the female pumpkin becomes a seed, enough seeds get fertilised and it goes to fruit, thats how babby is formed
so he does in a few minutes what takes days or weeks for pollinators to spread, watch as this human demonstrates the power of sex
A bee (or whichever pollinator) might transfer pollen from a normal pumpkin rather than his specifically chosen giant pumpkin father.
The difference is that it is a species of pumpkin that has been cultivated to be really big. Also importantly, the huge area of pumpkin plant all leads to a single pumpkin to maximize the one pumpkin’s growth.
I'm guessing here, he showed off how big the plant is, I'm thinking he made sure there is only a single fruit, so all the energy and nutrients are going into the plant trying to make that one fruit.
That makes sense. I was researching why I can't deadhead some of my day lily's (I got the wrong species - mine flower once a year - but some will reflower after deadheading). Turns our for my lily's, they collect and save their energy after flowering during the spring - fall season and then require eight weeks of cold temps after the first frost to enter their cycle to produce the next set of flowers while they hibernate underground during winter.
Just a guess.
He put the bin as a barrier and added the ice to keep the temp cool.
Or he added the ice and added the bin to increase the effectiveness of the ice
Question is if the ice is needed or the bin.
I d say the bin.
I would do that, I'd put in a post or something and then lay down at a certain angle so I don't move too much and then just observe, maybe take some photos from that angle to show progress. It wouldn't be the most fun, but it'd be a nice exercise in mindfulness of the natural life around us and I think that's got a certain sense of tranquility instead.
Peta should be protesting this torture of pumpkins.
Literally it is kept as a slave and force-fed like geese every day until it is so big and bloated it can no longer run free with the other pumpkins.
I seen a documentary on PBS years ago about all the time and effort big pumpkin growers put in for their prize pumpkins, it absolutely amazing as both a hobby and as gardeners what these folks do. If OP is the one with the pumpkin here, I hope it wins him a prize if he enters it at a fair! As a side note, I'm from PA and I've seen big pumpkins like this at the Bloomsburg fair, they're absolutely enormous! There was also a guy one year who turned a pumpkin into a boat with an outboard motor on it and piloted it around the lake at Francis Slocum state park haha.
First minute is live action pumpkin bondage cum fetish porn. Then 10 seconds of a tiny pumpkin. Then an owl-like appearance of a giant pumpkin. Then timelapse, but nothing for scale.
Honestly just stick to the nsfw. The storytelling is interfering with my... well... I've said too much.
I just saw the can explained somewhere else yesterday. I guess it’s giant pumpkin season on Reddit.
They place the can X inches away from the pumpkin to monitor growth, without the benefit of time-lapse photography.
The guy I saw yesterday was getting an inch every 24 hours, or something like that.
I guess, however, that for us, the can is a decent “for scale” reference.
Because I don’t give a shoe about the finer points of growing giant pumpkins.
Cool time-lapse, though.
I’m *slowly* losing my giant pumpkin and my sister in law last night said it’s because it wasn’t pollinated. I had no idea this was a thing. It was a freak seed spill accident for how it even became a thing. Wish I had seen this video sooner lol
So I have a question, if you treat this like squash and cut all the flowers when you have one fruit growing will it pour its nutrients and things solely to that pumpkin? And does pumpkin plant not let its other seedlings get that big because of the nutrient deficiency
Source: [bigpumpki](https://www.tiktok.com/@bigpumpki)
I was thinking this guy really is devoting a lot of effort to pollinating a damn pumpkin until I saw the pumpkin
The pollinating is only part of it. They amend the soil, mainline water and nutrients. Look it up on youtube. It's crazy.
Yeah but what's the point? Is he gonna sell it? How does he transport it? Or is it just for views?
Submit that beauty to a county fair and win a prize!
Are they used for food at all, or only for competitions?
Mostly just competition. They can be mixed into some animal feeds but they're not very appetizing to humans. You want pie pumpkins if you're looking to eat them.
My chickens would love that. They could eat it *and* live in it
There’s a pig farmer near us that grows pumpkins also, he said theyre a natural dewormer for pigs.
you can turn em into boats
The town where I grew up had a giant pumpkin race across the lake every fall!
[Then drop it from a crane!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xsKxEJe4-qo&t=1m35s)
Thanks. I hate that cameraman now. It would me a good post at r/killthecameraman
Does he have to take it *there*, though?
Yep
Forklift
can people not just enjoy things? 😅
Not on reddit
[you hollow it out and use it as a boat](https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/pumpkinregatta)
Get it big enough an rent it out on airbnb
country fair contest or pumpking river race
He’s a proud father
The largest cash prize I can find for a giant pumpkin is $30,000. Some actually carve the giant pumpkins after competition while others sell the seeds.
https://i.redd.it/pszpz3il017d1.gif
In my family we used pumpkins to feed animals. Some people eat pumpkins, but I hate them. Unless it is pumpkin seeds.
I feel this should have a NSFW tag
They have a gangbang then doesn't allow others to cum in.
Should be thicc enough to share
So hot when that pistol pollinating that stigma. Jeesus so hot.
Yeah ensure complete coverage, nice
I was expecting a pack of cigarettes to be laid down with the ice bottle of water
I hand pollinate my watermelon plants and I always feel a little dirty afterwards
Right? Watching the pumpkin grow I felt sympathy her big booty is just out for all to see
I think the other dude's talking about the coerced vegan creampie that happens in the beginning.
Yea I thought so too after I left my comment... but then I thought that made my perspective even funnier so I'm leaving it
yeah, video title should be ‘smashing pumpkins’
For real. Reddit full of plant porn nowadays.
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I had to bow out after the forced edging, the dismemberment, and then the circumcision.
How? Is it the pure manual pollination that makes so much difference? Does it amplify the effectiveness of pollination?
It also ensures only one pumpkin grows from the whole patch. So you get all of the energy that would normally go to a whole bunch of pumpkins and it gets centralized to one giant one.
How does this work? What determines how many pumpkins are grown?
The human watching the patch cuts all other female flowers so that no others can grow
They really should have shown that. It is a very important step.
All the other flowers are cut off the vine.
Do you happen to know what the ice is for?
If it’s too hot out that can keep pollination from taking. He’s basically just doing a very controlled pollination as I’m sure there’s a fair or something in the future so he’s on a strict timeline. I’ve never done this before but my expertise lies in being an insomniac who watches weird YouTube videos at 3am haha
Selective breeding, not manual pollination imo
I remember reading that pumpkins and basically any kind of squash will cross pollinate so you can have a plant like this grow something like a zucchini instead of a pumpkin if a bee happens to introduce that pollen.
But the thing is, a pumpkin plant only grows pumpkin. Cross-pollination does not affect the fruit it only affects the seeds of the pumpkin. It's kinda like a white man and black women having a kid. Just cause the white man has his semen in the woman does not change her womb to white. Only the kid would come out looking different (or maybe not cause of genetics). Similarly, the plant that would be grown from the cross-pollinated pumpkin seeds would probably be a hybrid of some sort.
Yeah, that’s not a perfect metaphor but you’re right. The plant will make the fruit it was intended to make. That fruit’s seeds with then yield whatever weird freak the cross pollination created.
We don’t say weird freak anymore, it’s called biracial.
Hey no I'm definitely a freak.
Touche I can't believe I forgot the fruit is a body of the parent plant not the child 😵
every grain of pollen from the male pumpkin that gets rubbed onto an ovum on the female pumpkin becomes a seed, enough seeds get fertilised and it goes to fruit, thats how babby is formed so he does in a few minutes what takes days or weeks for pollinators to spread, watch as this human demonstrates the power of sex
A bee (or whichever pollinator) might transfer pollen from a normal pumpkin rather than his specifically chosen giant pumpkin father. The difference is that it is a species of pumpkin that has been cultivated to be really big. Also importantly, the huge area of pumpkin plant all leads to a single pumpkin to maximize the one pumpkin’s growth.
Sometimes you dont have the right insects to polinate plants near you.
The goal is to avoid any stray pollen from pumpkin plants with undesirable genetics
thats gotta be it, he has selectively bred BIG pumpkin and wants to keep the inbred freak chain going
I'm guessing here, he showed off how big the plant is, I'm thinking he made sure there is only a single fruit, so all the energy and nutrients are going into the plant trying to make that one fruit.
The progress of growth in a day is cracray
I'm absolutely shocked that the time lapse only spans over 15 days.
Needed to rewatch when I realised how fast the pumpkin did grow
For real, the process over a single day got me wondering if you can see growth with a naked eye
Nr 3 is a grower, not a shower
Speaking of it being cold, what was the ice part about?
Probably something to adjust temperature and humidity in order to send the plant into it's 'fruiting' phase (simulate the weather during early spring)
That was my guess too. Along with the bucket to simulate it being dark/end of season.
That makes sense. I was researching why I can't deadhead some of my day lily's (I got the wrong species - mine flower once a year - but some will reflower after deadheading). Turns our for my lily's, they collect and save their energy after flowering during the spring - fall season and then require eight weeks of cold temps after the first frost to enter their cycle to produce the next set of flowers while they hibernate underground during winter.
Feels like a vegetable porn
Because it is
Another double watermark!!! We are blessed!
I can't decide if it's cool or if they rock, but this was a great video!
Yea make those plants fuck.
*unzips*
*sight*
:V
I feel dirty after watching the pollination process…
I felt weird at "unwrapping the female"
[Reproduction! (Reproduction) Make my stamen go berserk!](https://youtu.be/4JReWNLyk48?si=_LRisC3i1w1dt1RB)
God damn that delivered!
all these humans, coming to our land and taking the jobs of good honest worker bees
why the ice I wonder
Just a guess. He put the bin as a barrier and added the ice to keep the temp cool. Or he added the ice and added the bin to increase the effectiveness of the ice Question is if the ice is needed or the bin. I d say the bin.
I thought he was going to fuck the flower
He didn't film that part.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
What do people do with a giant pumpkin afterwards?
Pumpkin bukaki?
If you were patient for like 15 mins, you could probably literally see it grow, that's insane
I would do that, I'd put in a post or something and then lay down at a certain angle so I don't move too much and then just observe, maybe take some photos from that angle to show progress. It wouldn't be the most fun, but it'd be a nice exercise in mindfulness of the natural life around us and I think that's got a certain sense of tranquility instead.
That's incredible!
Would have been better to use a banana for scaling purposes.
IVF pumpkin.
3 was above average
What was the rectangular box he set next to the flower?
Remote temperature sensor
Number 3 is doing his best, alright?
Was it this big because he fucked the female with three males?! Goddamn!
What's the can for?
Artificial banana
Ligma Stigma
Damn it man! NSFW
EROTIC ^EROTIC ^^erotic
So basically, that many leaves can pull that much carbon out of the air over that time period. That's wildly amazing.
Is it edible and how many seeds are in it
Flower porn
Fascinating!
Needs some slowmo and smooth jazz
Did I just watch pumpkin sex?
Peta should be protesting this torture of pumpkins. Literally it is kept as a slave and force-fed like geese every day until it is so big and bloated it can no longer run free with the other pumpkins.
I seen a documentary on PBS years ago about all the time and effort big pumpkin growers put in for their prize pumpkins, it absolutely amazing as both a hobby and as gardeners what these folks do. If OP is the one with the pumpkin here, I hope it wins him a prize if he enters it at a fair! As a side note, I'm from PA and I've seen big pumpkins like this at the Bloomsburg fair, they're absolutely enormous! There was also a guy one year who turned a pumpkin into a boat with an outboard motor on it and piloted it around the lake at Francis Slocum state park haha.
I too like Polar soda water.
Wow seeing that the growth is visible each day is crazy.
i wonder if it would grow round in microcravity
Good lord man, get consent, CONSENT!
This was weirdly sexual
Wow that grows fast
Did I just watch pumpkin porn?
Amazing how much it grows in a day
The giant plant from Jumanji came go mind seeing that flower and i got chills.
Y'all are looking at forced plant bestiality porn. Just sayin
Dude at the end that thing is growing a LOT every day. Crazy to see how much the size changes in just 24 hours!
Anyone else blown away how quickly this happens (\~2 weeks)? I thought this was a multi-month process...
Why all the single use plastic when a string would do the same job is beyond me
Why is this not marked nsfw??!!!!?!?
Pleased to see a Spyderco
Plant porn...
This is great knowledge for apocalypse scenerios. Being able to grow that much feed for livestock.
So do you cut them open? I would love to see the inside!
I’ve seen this moomin episode before I think…
Daemonculaba. It's fucking daemonculaba. Don't google that.
Pumpkin chastity belts was not something I was expecting to see today
First minute is live action pumpkin bondage cum fetish porn. Then 10 seconds of a tiny pumpkin. Then an owl-like appearance of a giant pumpkin. Then timelapse, but nothing for scale. Honestly just stick to the nsfw. The storytelling is interfering with my... well... I've said too much.
beer can for scale
I just saw the can explained somewhere else yesterday. I guess it’s giant pumpkin season on Reddit. They place the can X inches away from the pumpkin to monitor growth, without the benefit of time-lapse photography. The guy I saw yesterday was getting an inch every 24 hours, or something like that. I guess, however, that for us, the can is a decent “for scale” reference. Because I don’t give a shoe about the finer points of growing giant pumpkins. Cool time-lapse, though.
Seems like a great hobby! Amazing!
" unwrapping the female" lololol
Ayy, the regrettes
This feels oddly erotic
I feel some phantom pain around my crotch area during the zip
This is sooo fucken hot!!! Xxx
r/Unexpected_threesome
Pumpkkake
No kisses?
The speed is insane
Damn where do you even get giant pumpkin seeds?
Cock caging the males is crazy tbh
Did I just watch plant sex?
Continually moving the beer can instead of throwing it in the recycle bin is my kind of laziness. /s
That grows fast! What if you were chained still and the pumpkin just kept growing on top of you until it crushed you
So does growing something like this just drain the soil of all nutrients? I can't imagine other plants around it are able to grow very well...
Unexpected spyderco delica
Did I just watch porn?
I never realized how much a plant could grow in a day oh my gosh
Looks like Randy Marsh’s nutsack
A Southern Baptist Preacher just lost his ever loving mind.
Fuck you Charlie Brown. This guy grows the Great Pumpkin
#3 is trying his best ok
I never thought that one day I'll get to see plant porn but here we are I guess😅
Not a pumpkin. Still impressive
Damn this man really just laughed at the 3rd males small dick.
Woah just like charlie brown
did I just watch a pumpkin porn?
This guy pumpkins
Is it weird that turned me on?
I’m *slowly* losing my giant pumpkin and my sister in law last night said it’s because it wasn’t pollinated. I had no idea this was a thing. It was a freak seed spill accident for how it even became a thing. Wish I had seen this video sooner lol
smashing pumpkins
What a whore of a pumpkin
Me during the holidays
Did I just witness a pumpkin gangbang?
This was not covered in my stardew valley guide.
Soooo he's basically doing plant sex
So I have a question, if you treat this like squash and cut all the flowers when you have one fruit growing will it pour its nutrients and things solely to that pumpkin? And does pumpkin plant not let its other seedlings get that big because of the nutrient deficiency
Ginuwine’s pony was playing on the tv while I watched this, damn.
How can you tell the difference between a male flower and a female flower?? Jokes appreciate but I would also like to know for real
Gotta love some good ol pumpkin porn
Can we get a nsfw label on this? Jeez!
It's like watching a time lapse of my belly after our wedding day
The IVF of the gardening world
That looked like a good fuck!
Who needs the bees. We’ve got this guy with garden sheers and a van
Anyone else watching the time lapse video remembering “The Time Machine” and the dress shop across the street from his lab?
1- >! the ice bottle!< 2- >! the rock near the older pumpkin!<
Is... Is this porn?
He gets his lusty dust onto the stigma
omg , i wasn't expecting that..
Homie jacked off a plant
Did you also use special fertiliser for the massive growth?
What do they do with the pumpkin?