Well, I doubt they can get larger than earth, so I’d say it’s somewhere between 3,000 lbs and earth’s weight.
plump pumkins
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hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Unforeseen twist: Earth 2.0 is a pumpkin.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Do we push the billionaires onto the pumpkin or do we all go on the pumpkin?
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Someone has to do the maths on the best possible nutrient, water and solar energy ratios required by pumpkins. Maybe pumpkins win!
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
We just have to feed the pumpkins a steady diet of americans and we could hit the 2 ton mark here soon.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Naw, all the toxic chemicals would then kill the pumpkins! (see e.g. radioactive Wal-Mart shrimp)
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where are we gonna find 4 average Americans!
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Time lapse video on those things are a trip. They expand noticeably by the hour.
AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I love the can for scale.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Are they still edible or just enormous garbage and waste of resources?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
[deleted]WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You have to gut the inside to make a jack-o-lantern, and I think I remember my mom cooking with that gunk from inside at least once or twice.
Busyvar@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately giant pumpkin taste pretty bad,
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
we’ll have to test that theory with a massive pumpkin pie and pumpkin and cream cheese roll
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Suppose the pumpkin plant could be bred or genetically engineered to retain its desirable taste even at very large sizes.
Would this even improve the caloric yield per acre? Or would the bottleneck be the available energy from photosynthesis? In other words do giant pumpkins take a proportionally larger amount of leaf surface area, such that you’re not actually getting any more pumpkin mass per acre than with many smaller pumpkins?
As I understand it normal pumpkins are already pretty high up there in terms of caloric yield, so perhaps there’s not much more room to push it.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
It might be more efficient per acre, but it’s less efficient per person-hour.
As the weight goes up, the stress on the skin goes up. But the skin doesn’t go any stronger.
So you need to feed, support (literally) and manage them round the clock to control their growth and stop them from splitting and allowing pests and bacteria inside.
dumples@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I saw one of those around 2000 lb pumpkins. They are a beautiful sight. I want to grow one but I know I don’t have the space
The_v@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I probably should work on getting the bush type plant mutant into the giant pumpkin germplasm again.
The first tests were had a 400lb pumpkin into a 8’x8’ plot. They split and cracked however.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck you, don’t tell me what I know, The Atlantic.
janus2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
this is lobsters all over again
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
jack o lantern carved with a large sawz-all blade.
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How does that work? Selective breeding? Fertilizer? Growth hormones? New growing techniques? What is it that’s allowing these pumpkins to get bigger and bigger?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Giving farms water for practically free while private citizens have to buy it in bottles from the store because the water is either laden with e.coli or just…not there by the time it gets to them.
3000lb pumpkins aren’t something to be proud of. They are trophies of gluttony.
0tan0d@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your mixing commercial farming with enjoyment selective breeding. The 3k lbs pumpkin is only grown in a couple of plants. Anything growing too slow is removed ASAP and put in a compost pile. Its just a fun way to enjoy the growing season in the middle of bum fuck no where.
Soulcreator@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I’m not an expert in the whole giant pumpkin phenomenon, but it’s my understanding that the pumpkins are generally grown by hobbyists for fun rather than farmers on an industrial scale. So I don’t think it’s a trade-off on our food system, where kids are starving in Africa because farmers are wasting their resources growing pumpkins. I think it’s more of an, “look what I did” type thing.
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Sure is a good thing that you don’t have any hobbies that use any resources whatsoever otherwise you’d seem awfully hypocritical complaining about someone with a checks notes gardening hobby.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Pit them against the lobster church.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Memory unlocked, lol:
🎶
Decomposing Pumpkins!
Throw it at that plump kid
Because his mom did
Not give us good candy on Halloween!!
🎶
robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
C’mon, how did you miss the obvious: plumpkins?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
fixed.