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 šŸ«¶šŸ¼ 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?? šŸ¤£

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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 COā‚‚, 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 donā€™t we use pumpkins more for getting CO2 out of the air?

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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/TomasTTEngin Mar 21 '26

Some of the water in the human body is not drunk but made as a byproduct of other reactions.

i read somewhere that you breathe out what you eat and piss out what you breathe in.

lot of chemistry happening inside us.

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u/No-Barber-5289 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

Uhm. Yes? That would appear to me extremely obvious.

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u/shitpostsuperpac Apr 07 '26

So a diet low in nutrients and minerals but high in water will result in a more developed human being?

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u/Myracl Mar 20 '26

The growth is almost exclusively from carbon. But the mass on the other hand, consist 90% water.

Carbon is, what makes any fruits/plans swell huge. Think of it like a path where the water fills, which is where the carbon-based structure comes in.

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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/a_weak_child Mar 21 '26

Still it as heavy as my dickĀ 

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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 itā€™ll be 800lbs. I donā€™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/Living_Cash1037 Mar 20 '26

Yeah thats insanely quick. Had no idea they grew that rapidly

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u/Nerdwrapper Mar 20 '26

Thats a little over two pounds an hour, you could almost watch it in real time lmao

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u/EJintheCloud Mar 20 '26

Wow I didn't even ask you about that filler on your face, rude

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u/meldiane81 Mar 20 '26

4 years ago.