[HN Gopher] Our Better Nature: Great Pumpkins
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Our Better Nature: Great Pumpkins
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 49 points
Date : 2024-10-22 19:04 UTC (4 days ago)
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| sharpshadow wrote:
| Would be fun if somebody would grow them in a big acrylic glass
| cube to make them come out square.
| bookofjoe wrote:
| Start small: https://www.amazon.com/SCI-Cuisine-International-
| Square-Pres...
| quesera wrote:
| Brings back memories from the early web:
| https://www.ding.net/bonsaikitten/
| steveBK123 wrote:
| You could use a square melon mold
| https://www.amazon.com/Watermelon-Growing-Mold-Sapodilla-Tra...
| dtagames wrote:
| Disney has been doing Mickey-shaped ones for a while[0] in the
| greenhouse at The Land at Epcot.
|
| [0] https://www.delish.com/food-news/a29003871/disney-world-
| epco...
| dylan604 wrote:
| No pics of the title subject? Pics or it didn't happen.
| dtagames wrote:
| I saw it in person ages ago. Didn't take any pics, lol.
| Sorry.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Yeah, but unless you wrote the article, the fail isn't on
| you
| pvaldes wrote:
| They would have a burst acrylic cube on return. This fast
| growers are simply too big and too heavy to be contained
| pvaldes wrote:
| (ehum... vegetable steroids ->
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberellin ).
|
| Genetic and care help, a lot, but there are fertilizers and
| "fertilizers".
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| I dimly recall a _Daedalus_ DREADCO column which, starting from
| hydroponics, was exploring the limits of artificial vegetative
| growth, and came to the conclusion that under the right
| conditions, it was all a question of how much energy one was
| willing to pump in.
|
| Maybe we need a fleet of satellites beaming formed microwaves
| down to our giant Cucurbitaceae?
|
| (my wife kept prompting me to harvest my radishes this summer;
| by the time I actually got around to it, they'd grown to sizes
| ranging from a small potato to an entire fist)
| Mistletoe wrote:
| I was hoping you were wrong but nope. We can't even have
| pumpkin growing contests anymore without PEDs.
|
| >Gibberellic acid: In the young fruit stage of pumpkin, apply
| 10-20mg/L gibberellic acid solution to the young fruit, apply
| once every 5-7 days for a total of 2 to 3 times, which can
| obviously promote hypertrophy and accelerate maturity, which
| can improve quality.
|
| >https://m.plantgrowthhormones.com/info/for-pumpkin-
| planting-...
| smusamashah wrote:
| > especially as they mature and gain from 30 to 50 pounds per day
|
| That's about 0.25 grams per second. Or 15 grams per minute. If
| put on a scale, i am assuming you could witness it growing in
| near real-time.
| adrian_b wrote:
| The greatest part of that continuously added mass is just water
| pumped from the soil.
|
| When you compute the added dry mass per second, divided by the
| mass of the plant, the rate is still big, but much less
| impressive.
| adriand wrote:
| That's what I'm going to tell myself when I stand on the
| bathroom scale in the morning. "I'm not fat, if I just
| compute my dry mass, I'm in superb condition."
| Swizec wrote:
| > That's what I'm going to tell myself when I stand on the
| bathroom scale in the morning. "I'm not fat, if I just
| compute my dry mass, I'm in superb condition."
|
| So fun fact: I like to weigh myself before and after long
| runs on sunday (15mi+). 5lbs to 7lbs difference. All water.
| You really can sweat off 7lbs of your weight in a couple
| hours if you want to.
| bookofjoe wrote:
| Reminds me my little brother in high school, running for
| hours in a rubber suit to make his weight.
| basch wrote:
| probably mostly respiration?
| ReptileMan wrote:
| And not a single Blandings Castle or Lord Emsworth joke.
| joe8756438 wrote:
| I've had terrible luck growing pumpkins until this year when I
| put five root bound starts in the former bedding of my goose
| flock. All the starts were tangled together in a two gallon pot,
| didn't even bother separating. Those plants easily produced
| 200lbs of pumpkins.
|
| My neighbor, who gave me the starts and took much greater care
| with the plants, had all of his die from various pests and
| diseases.
| dylan604 wrote:
| I had a pumpkin patch growing earlier this year that was
| decimated by bugs. I tried every "organic" method of treating
| the bugs to no avail. It was all just for the lulz, and
| specifically wanted to avoid pesticides. The bugs won
| joe8756438 wrote:
| My takeaway from that experience is that nutrition is the
| best way to prevent disease/pests. once there's a problem
| it's probably too late.
| dylan604 wrote:
| The plants were healthy until the bugs. The vines were
| growing, the leaves were huge, and they had just started to
| produce flowers. I've never seen the type of bugs, some
| stink bug type of beetle, in my yard ever before. Now that
| I've removed the dead plants, there's no sign of the bugs.
| For as many as there were, I'd expect to see some
| remaining. It's always a learning experience growing new
| plants
| metalman wrote:
| Giant vegtable growing contests are ancient and in certain
| pacific island populations,social status is closely conected to
| the size/quality of the yams that someone grows the first true
| gigantic pumpkins were grown just down the road from me,and giant
| pumpkins are growing (hidden) everywhere,highly competitive and
| subject to ANY tactic to grow/get a bigger pumpkin or judging by
| the paranoia,finding a way to induce splitting in a rivals
| pumpkins,as any hole or split,suspicious marks,disqualify a
| pumpkin from competition
| simonw wrote:
| "In 2023, Minnesota resident Travis Gienger, who teaches
| horticulture, aptly enough, broke the world record for the
| biggest pumpkin. His 2,749-pound entry beat the old record, set
| in 2021 by an Italian farmer, by 47 pounds."
|
| I was there for that! I used my photo of the moment he beat the
| world record in my blog post about GPT-4 vision prompt injection
| attacks: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-
| prompt-inj...
|
| Here's my Mastodon thread from this year's competition. Travis
| competed (and won) again but didn't get a new world record,
| though another competitor did set the record for the largest
| pumpkin ever grown in California:
| https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/113306150061413548
| cactusplant7374 wrote:
| How much does that cost to grow?
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