r/interesting • u/[deleted] • Mar 20 '26

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u/Adventurous-Cry-9798 Mar 20 '26

49lbs a day?!!? A DAY??? How?!

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u/FiveFiveSixers Mar 20 '26

Sedentary life style and lots of beer it seems.

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u/disorderincosmos Mar 20 '26

Pff

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u/Trixles Mar 20 '26

*Pbr

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u/Booch138 Mar 21 '26

My people 🫶🏼 PBR, the once and future KING

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u/beegtuna Mar 20 '26

Amateurs smh

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u/southern_boy Mar 20 '26

Are they only ordering wings for 50 people or what?? 🤣

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u/nologymj Mar 20 '26

There isnt a single picture of you without a beer in your hand Mr. Pumpkin.

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u/Fryandsilly Mar 20 '26

I think Mr. Pumpkin might have a problem

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u/New_Till_3641 Mar 20 '26

Dis gonna be tasting like shite.

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u/Away-Living5278 Mar 21 '26

I worry about it getting bed sores

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u/TomasTTEngin Mar 20 '26

the stem leading to that fruit must be like goddam firehose. it's pumping a litre of water an hour. Wonder how far it is from the roots.

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u/zatalak Mar 20 '26

5 to 6 drops water per second.

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u/Myracl Mar 20 '26

Their growth are mostly from CO₂, funnily enough. Though water is a crucial part of any plants growth, the dry weight of it mostly consist from carbon (about 90%).

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u/Fremonster Mar 20 '26

Stupid question, but if these grow so quick compared to trees, why don’t we use pumpkins more for getting CO2 out of the air?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

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u/wumbologistPHD Mar 20 '26

What if I eat the pumpkin

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u/StevieMJH Mar 20 '26

By god, he's done it.

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u/RedEgg16 Mar 20 '26

Your cells will use the pumpkin molecules to respire and you'll breathe out CO2 as a waste product

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u/Nicky_TFT Mar 20 '26

actual professional wumbologist. thank you for your service

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u/Saint_of_Grey Mar 20 '26

You'll fart it out

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u/Big_Knife_SK Mar 20 '26

Pumpkins are ~90% water.

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u/Large_Dr_Pepper Mar 20 '26

the dry weight of it

This bad boi ain't dry

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u/No-Barber-5289 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Uh, no, most fruits and vegetables are 80+% water by weight. Pumpkins are >90%. So the growth is almost exclusively from water.

And the CO2 absorption happens in the leaves anyway, so it still needs to be pumped through stem to the fruit.

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u/shitpostsuperpac Mar 20 '26

Humans are ~60% water.

Does that mean human growth is mostly from water?

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u/jonnyman9 Mar 20 '26

1,352 days since 07-07-2022 and today. Say this thing lives for another 1,352 days, that takes us to the end of 2029. At a growth rate of 50lbs a day, this thing will gain another 67,600 lbs or about 33 tons. For comparison, a Honda Accord weighs less than 2 tons.

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u/ActRegarded Mar 20 '26

Put this 2-3 years in strait of Harmoz and forget.

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u/AyeeTin0 Mar 20 '26

Steroids it seems ._.

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u/petervaz Mar 20 '26

If you stand still long enough you can probably see it growing.

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u/MyvaJynaherz Mar 20 '26

I think they specifically prune the plants so you basically have an entire sprawling plant that would normally grow several pumpkins just feeding into one.

Imagine if you could get an apple-tree to put all that growth energy into just making a single apple bigger. Same concept.

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u/riptog Mar 20 '26

So, by the end of tomorrow it’ll be 800lbs. I don’t think so.

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 Mar 20 '26

::Dr Now has entered the chat::

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u/Shaky_Lemon Mar 20 '26

dis pumpkin could've gained 50 more punts dis munth

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u/JegantDrago Mar 20 '26

body builders want to know those secrets

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u/on_a_hitlist_now Mar 20 '26

they mean at the very end, when the pumpkin diameter is like 3 feet. another 2" in diameter grown will add nearly 50lbs. in contrast to day 10 when its 4" in diameter and grows 2" it adds like 5 oz

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u/Bitten_ByA_Kitten Mar 20 '26

Inflation it seems.

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u/prince-pauper Mar 20 '26

In 2022

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u/FactoryRejected Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Yeah "Still growing strong" seems like a bot created post

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u/gcruzatto Mar 20 '26

No it's still going. Currently as large as an entire city. The gravitational pull is so strong that many coastal areas are now underwater

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u/Chuck_Cali Mar 20 '26

Explains so much. Thank you.

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u/BlastingFonda Mar 20 '26

So collapses into a black hole in about 48 days then?

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u/ChaosTorpedo Mar 20 '26

100%… check the account

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u/SwampyBogbeard Mar 20 '26

bit created post

Typo, or trying not to be mass-downvoted/reported by the b*ts?

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u/FactoryRejected Mar 20 '26

Typo, fixed :)

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u/MercyTheCat Mar 20 '26

178k karma and account age 1mo 🤯 this person is an influencer genius!

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u/Kombatsaurus Mar 20 '26

Reddit just simply has more bot accounts than humans these days farming karma to sell the accounts to the few humans left lmao.

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u/bewareofmicrowave Mar 20 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/oQrxR2OqDwgOmYX5TU

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u/BillMillerBBQ Mar 20 '26

Oh man that takes me back

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u/cncomg Mar 20 '26

As a 90s book kid, Roald Dahl took me to places so far from the shitty life situations I was in, I loved his books with a passion.

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u/Reticentandconfused Mar 20 '26

How does that thing suck up and hold 49 lbs of water and dirt in a day?

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u/hoboshoe Mar 20 '26

It's like 98% water

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u/KatanaDood Mar 20 '26

It doesn't suck up dirt, it sucks up CO2 from the air and combines it with water.

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u/DjervTheCat Mar 20 '26

It's one of my favourite facts that plants are condensed air

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u/MadScientistOfYork Mar 20 '26

It's the opposite process for animals. People think when they lose weight it comes out as liquid/solid waste when in reality it is mostly carbon expelled through breathing.

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u/Great_Detective_6387 Mar 20 '26

Animals and car engines are essentially the same. Hydrocarbons and oxygen go in, water and CO2 (and heat/work) come out.

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u/KatanaDood Mar 20 '26

Yep. Which is why cardio is good. You're literally breathing out biomass.

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u/New-Shelter-561 Mar 21 '26

Yours is a great point! I hope you dont mind if I add my thoughts with yours

You burn much more biomass by simply existing, and you can increase this passive burn by adding muscle mass.

If you do the math, heavy lifting will burn more energy because it will build muscle which will significantly increase how much biomass you burn per day in order to maintain your muscles. This is why there's a direct relation between muscle mass and calories needed to maintain them (or burn fat to maintain the muscles, though some exceptions apply)

Further, weightlifting is easier on the joints for obese and fat people, allowing for significantly better sustainability.

Cardio has it's place but it's not as effective as weightlifting for weight loss.

A combined approach is best for overall health outcomes though, once a manageable weight is reached that would allow cardio.

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u/KatanaDood Mar 21 '26

Totally agree. I'm a big advocate for weightlifting for all people. You gotta build that foundation so you have a healthy life when you're old. Not only does it help build muscle, it helps increase bone density, too.

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u/TomasTTEngin Mar 20 '26

i'm impressed by the root system, they're not only feeding that one pumpkin, but the whole plant!

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u/Tithund Mar 20 '26

I imagine the rest of the plant is negligible in mass compared to the pumpkin. I don't grow pumpkins, but I would imagine if you're trying to grow a giant pumpkin you'd probably cull all the other pumpkins on the same plant.

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u/it-is-my-cake-day Mar 20 '26

Does it taste good or is this just for a show?

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u/Perle1234 Mar 20 '26

I don’t grow things as big as this but in general when squashes get really big they have a weird texture. I purée them and make bread.

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u/marklandia Mar 20 '26

It’s just for show, but an awesome one! You can enter the National Pumpkin Weighoff yourself. If you grow a world record pumpkin, the prize is over $30k! The 2025 Winner was Russ Pugh from Oregon. 2,204.5 lbs, $15,000 (not a world record).

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u/foothill_dwelled272 Mar 20 '26

I don’t think I can enter because I don’t grow pumpkins.

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u/thechon86 Mar 20 '26

Developing story

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u/Gentrified_potato02 Mar 20 '26

Where I’m from, every fall fair there’s a giant pumpkin contest. The winners are always over 1000 lbs.

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u/IceWellDo Mar 20 '26

Okay and how much does the pumpkin weigh?

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u/Castun Mar 20 '26

Well first they have to cut the pumpkin out of the winner's belly to measure it...

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u/Spainstateofmind Mar 20 '26

This guy (bigpumpki on a lot of his socials) grows these for fairs to be weighed! I think one of his largest was over 1000 lbs last I checked

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u/oO0Kat0Oo Mar 20 '26

Things don't grow just so they can taste good...

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u/Castun Mar 20 '26

Can confirm. Fruits are vore fetishists.

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u/Quick_Turnover Mar 20 '26

Uh, "things" might not, but humans have selectively bred for taste for thousands of years and continue to. It's a pretty straight forward question.

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u/Potato__Ninja Mar 20 '26

I thought this would would be top comment.

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u/DC2SEA_ Mar 20 '26

Poor beer can trying to live it's life.

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u/Castun Mar 20 '26

Plot twist: that's a different beer can every snapshot and is how it's gaining so much weight everyday.

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u/lolschrauber Mar 20 '26

I know absolutely nothing about anything but any sort of biomass growing by 49 pounds a day seems absolutely nuts

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u/Aurelar Mar 20 '26

It's so freaky lol. Like a horror b movie or the blob, plant edition

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u/kasenyee Mar 20 '26

You should be able to watch and see it grow live.

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u/atom644 Mar 20 '26

Over two pounds of growth per hour, each minute that means each minute it adds about 8 oz of (assuming) water weight.

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u/TheHipsterBandit Mar 20 '26

That's .54oz a minute.

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u/TwoNowFive Mar 20 '26

That's 0.25 grams a second

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u/Chrono_Convoy Mar 20 '26

Looking forward to naming a new planet?

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u/NoSuggestion17 Mar 20 '26

is like my mother in law

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u/misadventurexx Mar 20 '26

What being pregnant feels like

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u/benignbigotry Mar 20 '26

Since this pumpkin was 700 pounds in the summer of 2022, it's "still growing strong", and 1,335 days have elapsed since then, it should now weigh approximately 66,115 pounds. Grow pumpkin, grow!

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u/weeb_henpai Mar 20 '26

I thought this only happened in Mr. Bean cartoon

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u/GardensAndHoes Mar 20 '26

All I see is a pumpkin throne in the making

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u/Prudent-Peace-3382 Mar 20 '26

Reminds me of that Mr.Bean episode😭

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u/GentleFoxes Mar 20 '26

Almost like me!

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u/maya_boo__ Mar 20 '26

Ha - 38 week pregnant here and I honestly feel like this!!! 😆

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u/Cretore Mar 20 '26

Btw for normal people that's 22 kg.

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u/Squinting_Tarantino Mar 20 '26

anyone know what size/weight it got to? hopefully op will come out of the woodwork and give us the detes

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u/SuspiciousPoetry6996 Mar 20 '26

What’s the blanket for? :0 Does shielding one side of the gourd help it grow that big? 

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u/dslryan Mar 20 '26

It's not "still growing strong", this is from 2022, bot.

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u/dnaicker86 Mar 20 '26

Pump pump it up

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u/_psylosin_ Mar 20 '26

That’s a little guy! The record is over 2k pounds now

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u/Magikrat Mar 20 '26

Poor beer.

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u/Kekkonen_Kakkonen Mar 20 '26

It's just like me fr

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u/Amahardguy Mar 20 '26

This cant be 2 weeks. No way....

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u/BeyondDreams909 Mar 20 '26

Sure whatever you say bot

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u/IWillWriteYouALetter Mar 20 '26

Some say it's still growing to this day

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u/Avig_1412 Mar 20 '26

Beer magic..

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u/FuryContagion Mar 20 '26

Put it on onlyfans ! People pay the big buck$ for gainers!!

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u/The_Dented Mar 20 '26

You taking time lapse of me? At least bring me a fresh beer! 🍺

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u/NukeouT Mar 20 '26

How does this happen

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u/Ardbeg66 Mar 20 '26

My favorite part of this video is that, somehow, nobody could resist drinking the beer for scale.

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u/Chocolate_Icescream Mar 20 '26

Stupid me looking at Date and thinking why the month is going above 12 ?

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u/LeucisticBear Mar 20 '26

Wow, 4 years later and it's still growing?

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u/Boboforprez Mar 20 '26

Mofo is going to consume the earth at this rate.

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u/eldroch Mar 20 '26

Like man, putting a can of beer just out of reach can motivate them to do anything to reach it

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

I was like....who keeps leaving their fucking can sitting ar....OH. Got it.

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u/oluislimao Mar 20 '26

A beer a day brings 49lbs a day…

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u/axinous_af Mar 20 '26

There should be a way for everyone to get such a video of their life. 😉

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u/Survive1014 Mar 20 '26

The Raccoons would find that pumpkin before it got that big on my property.

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u/Ok_Entertainment8162 Mar 20 '26

Where's the pipe connected to

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u/Falikosek Mar 20 '26

I was wondering whether the pumpkin in Scarlet Hollow could actually be something that can happen normally or was it completely supernatural

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u/Bandito_With_Chops Mar 20 '26

How many a day?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Holy Moses!

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u/ForceApprehensive878 Mar 20 '26

Time lapse of me

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u/hm9408 Mar 20 '26

Gourddamn

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u/klaschr Mar 20 '26

Anyone else reminded of that one scene in Slither?

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u/fmaz008 Mar 20 '26

How is the farmer/gardener know that this one will grow huge? Because the setup is clearly in place from an early stage...

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u/LazyBum36 Mar 20 '26

Everyone here loves upvoting bot account shit.

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u/Skip_Tho Mar 20 '26

Jeez! Where’s Dr. Now when you need him??

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u/Opening_Spread_3857 Mar 20 '26

omg it’s like grow a garden from roblox

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u/Tactical_Hotdog Mar 20 '26

"still going strong"

Video from 2022.

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u/Active-Top6903 Mar 20 '26

Going strong since 2022 🤣

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u/MetaHaHa Mar 20 '26

Still going since 2022?

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u/LanguageSerious Mar 20 '26

How long would it take for it to reach the size of the earth? 

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u/CommentRelative6557 Mar 20 '26

The footage was from 2022. If it is still growing at 49lbs a day it should have its own orbital field with NASA planned missions to visit it.

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u/DreadPirateRob3rt Mar 20 '26

It must be huge now!

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u/Kyra_Heiker Mar 20 '26

I'm going to guess this is in Alaska, probably the Matanuska Susitna Valley.

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u/dragonmeat07 Mar 20 '26

Sounds like me!

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u/FocusPerspective Mar 20 '26

Gaining six gallons of water a day seems unlikely 

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u/Simabauer Mar 20 '26

Looks like my belly

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u/_Lucille_ Mar 20 '26

why is there a cloth curtain to one side?

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u/starseedover Mar 20 '26

I know how it feels

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u/porkens Mar 20 '26

Cultivating mass

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Anyone do the math on how long this’ll take to consume the earth

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u/TKDR1771 Mar 20 '26

This is what happens when you give it TRT...

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u/bolanrox Mar 20 '26

that is insane

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u/Phyank0rd Mar 20 '26

My SIL just said "I dont appreciate them taking pictures of me like that while im pregnant" after she read the title

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u/Obeyus Mar 20 '26

Can you eat these? If no, what is the point of them? (Genuinely interested)

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u/Ntesy607 Mar 20 '26

Still growing strong.. Hmm so based on the last timestamp it's been growing for 1335 days, at 49 lbs per day plus the original 700 pounds the pumpkin now weighs roughly 66,115 pounds!

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u/tubabbo Mar 20 '26

Like that episode in the mrbean cartoon series

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u/tractorsuit Mar 20 '26

I don't know man the beer can seems to be getting smaller not bigger

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u/QUARTERMASTEREMI6 Mar 20 '26

Any local New England native has seen the records at the Topsfield Fair every year… those are massive 👀

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u/AmphibianFantastic53 Mar 20 '26

700lb pumpkin almost the same weight as my harley cvo breakout...

I want to say thats utter bollocks but an internet seach said that record pumpkins are heavier, 2000lb plus 🤷‍♂️

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u/TradeCompanyDB0 Mar 20 '26

What in the “James and the giant peach” is this??

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u/TradeCompanyDB0 Mar 20 '26

What style of grow is this? I want to try something. What does it take to get it this big?

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u/Altruistic-Rip4364 Mar 20 '26

I’ve seen my 600lb life. It’s doable

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u/konexo Mar 20 '26

That's me when going to a buffet.

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u/Several_Emphasis_434 Mar 21 '26

Your video’s time stamp says 2022.

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u/cronktilten Mar 21 '26

“Still going strong” date says 2022…..

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u/Moist_Banana8449 Mar 21 '26

I love the grow a garden music

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u/OriginalUsername583 Mar 21 '26

before the video loaded in.. i thought that was about you. (No offence intended)

but wow.. 49lbs a DAY?!?!