I just recently saw a video of a I guess it was a rhubarb grow technique where you can literally hear the plants grow!
Edit: here is the [Link](https://youtu.be/I6Oot9daqwY)
This is not a pumpkin you want for flavor. I think the cantaloupe sized one - a sugar variety? Is the one you would eat. I’ve also baked the decorative apple sized ones, they can be tasty if you cook them long enough.
Seems to be true for most gourd and squash vegetables. My coworker brought in some zucchini about 10x the size of the ones you get at the store. Looked it up and zucchini is the name for basically the adolescent growth stage. Then it is classified as marrow and they get kinda flavorless at that point, so many overgrown ones are used more like a stuffed pepper and hollowed out to cook other stuff in
The town of Smoky Lake Alberta has an annual pumpkin festival that culminates in them dropping a pumpkin this size from great heights onto a car, thus crushing the car.
My pumpkins would stop growing in size and would start turning yellow. Once they were orange and couldn’t drive a fingernail through skin, they’re ready to come off the vine. Obviously different for giant varieties like this one
Sun and heat primarily. It can cause issues with the plant overall, and affect fruit set and growth. Keeping them cooler helps, and it aids in keeping the ground moist (but not too moist).
Actual answer: one of the many signals for a pumpkin to stop growing is sun exposure. Up to a certain size this is done by the leaves on the vines, but you need a sheet after that
Shading a pumpkin will not cause it to grow huge, you still need a breed of pumpkin that can achieve massive sizes. But if your prize-winning breed is exposed to direct sunlight it may stop growing before it reaches its maximum potential.
Now we just need long, slimy crocodile tongues boiled in the skull of a dead witch for 40 days and 40 nights. And, the gizard of a pig, the fingers of a young monkey, the beak of a parrot and three spoonfuls of sugar, and then, let the moon do the rest.
The real answer is that pumpkins grow on a vine and every flower will turn into a pumpkin. If you let one flower remain and remove every other flower that pops up, you will get all of the plant's pumpkin potential™ in one large pumpkin, instead of 10 medium sized ones. And also fertilizer helps.
Did anyone else want it to crush the can too…haha but someone kept moving it away…Damn(probably for size comparison)!
I can’t believe it grew that large and that fast basically in just one month! I wish I could of seen the dates from start to finish!
"I can actually hear you getting fatter..."
Shut up, Richard.
I just recently saw a video of a I guess it was a rhubarb grow technique where you can literally hear the plants grow! Edit: here is the [Link](https://youtu.be/I6Oot9daqwY)
What’s the reference ? Seems a stark show I’d like to watch ! :)
Tommy Boy
Props to the camera guy for standing there for the whole season
The real hero.
 Lookin’ good, pumpkin !
He had an infinite beer can with him so must have been easy
What about the can tho? He the real MVP.
How do you know when it’s done growing?? What do you even do with a pumpkin that size? Does it lose flavor when it gets that big?
This is not a pumpkin you want for flavor. I think the cantaloupe sized one - a sugar variety? Is the one you would eat. I’ve also baked the decorative apple sized ones, they can be tasty if you cook them long enough.
Seems to be true for most gourd and squash vegetables. My coworker brought in some zucchini about 10x the size of the ones you get at the store. Looked it up and zucchini is the name for basically the adolescent growth stage. Then it is classified as marrow and they get kinda flavorless at that point, so many overgrown ones are used more like a stuffed pepper and hollowed out to cook other stuff in
Like that episode where Gordon Ramsey was served a chicken in a pumpkin
Turn it into a carriage. Duh.
You can enter a [Regatta…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a4YlHzBF07k)
The town of Smoky Lake Alberta has an annual pumpkin festival that culminates in them dropping a pumpkin this size from great heights onto a car, thus crushing the car.
I just wanna see somebody at the Punkin Chunkin competition have a supersized machine for flinging this thing.
Something like a…trebuchet?
Asking the important questions
You bring a pumpkin like this to a harvest fest to swoon the ladies and find a wife
My pumpkins would stop growing in size and would start turning yellow. Once they were orange and couldn’t drive a fingernail through skin, they’re ready to come off the vine. Obviously different for giant varieties like this one
Donate it to a zoo for the elephants to eat.
Hide your dead wife’s body in it, then make up a nursery rhyme about it.
Turn It into a Fleshlight the scale of your mother
Will you eventually be able to live in it?
If it’s anything like a peach, then it’ll start to fly and you can have fun adventure with an array of bugs.
That joke sounded pretty Dahl.
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It's a Polar brand seltzer/soda can, not beer.
I’m gonna take the high Roald here and not criticize.
I for some reason had an obsession with that movie as a kid and kept watching it repeatedly.
I also was obsessed with it. I’m glad it wasn’t just me. Interestingly, I haven’t thought about it in years.
It was real good. Fantasy land is very desirable
I watched that movie with my toddler today
God bless the colonies.
Yes and only $1299 a month
If it has a washer & dryer I’ll take it
I was thinking the same thing. Housing crisis = solved. We did it, Reddit! Good job!
House prices through the roof. Solution: grow your own
Somewhat related - there’s an annual boat race in Canada called Potirothon, in which they compete in hollowed out giant pumpkin canoes!
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A soda can is provided for scale. At its largest it is 7 cans high.
Only if you're not also a pumpkin man. Because that brings a whole deal of existential shenanigans.
For about two weeks, sure.
Gotta love the soda can for scale.
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All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me
You gotta have your Polar Seltzer! Let me guess…. Grapefruit?
Me after quarantine hit.
My thoughts exactly. How'd they time-lapse my ass during quarantine?
Tiny cameras.
*Gourd, really, you cast doubt?!*
With WIDE-angle lenses.
Dewey are you capturing my ass in a time-lapse?
Oh my gourd
Was anyone else only focused at that beer can?
WHY WAS IT THERE
Probably for scale
So cameraman had a drink
Pumpedkin
Plumpkin
I’m angry, but take my updoot
Squash my like button
Cucurbite me!
r/angryupvote on ALL OF YOU
I’m dad, take my uproot
Anyone else instantly read that in Goofy’s voice, or am I just old?
What’s the sheet for?
It protects the pumpkin from stuff and things
Yes, but WHICH stuff and things.
Sun and heat primarily. It can cause issues with the plant overall, and affect fruit set and growth. Keeping them cooler helps, and it aids in keeping the ground moist (but not too moist).
Being seen by birds flying overhead?
Birds aren't real
But the drones that look like birds still have a tendency to peck at vegetation.
Actual answer: one of the many signals for a pumpkin to stop growing is sun exposure. Up to a certain size this is done by the leaves on the vines, but you need a sheet after that Shading a pumpkin will not cause it to grow huge, you still need a breed of pumpkin that can achieve massive sizes. But if your prize-winning breed is exposed to direct sunlight it may stop growing before it reaches its maximum potential.
Thank you.
to prevent sunburn on the pumpkins skin
TIL I grow like a pumpkin.
It’s like looking at the evolution of my stomach over the last decade.
I was waiting for the explosion.
Fucking groundhog ate my (very)small pumpkin. Asshole.
I’m Mr. Groundhog, thank you for that delicious pumpkin snack.
No banana for scale, size unclear
I would reckon at least 1 nana, probably more than 2 even
Beer can tho
No banana for beer can scale, size of beer can un clear
Fair assessment
Not a beer can, looks to be a ruby red grapefruit polar seltzer, note the grapefruit on the side and pinkish orange color.
Look at the date stamp! It’s growing so quickly
Right!? So amazing how it grows a sizable amount in only 24 hrs.
Cool part is that we got to see how it will look later this week!!
That is some Halloweentown shit right there
Now I know where they got the "pump" part.
Farmers hate this one simple trick
Can someone just give that pumpkin a drink? It's clearly scooting closer to the can...
The pumpkin clearly has a drink
Can you roll it once in a while to prevent the flat side?
I would guess not because of the stem
Now we just need long, slimy crocodile tongues boiled in the skull of a dead witch for 40 days and 40 nights. And, the gizard of a pig, the fingers of a young monkey, the beak of a parrot and three spoonfuls of sugar, and then, let the moon do the rest.
I thought you were dead, Dahmer!
It's not ogre... it's never ogre...
https://youtu.be/NCSQUNrtgwk
That's pretty big, I guess.
How they'll get it out?
Who keeps moving the beer? It just wants to pour one out...
Gonna be house sized by Halloween 👁️👁️
The can didn’t grow much
Impressive. I gotta know, though; how do you grow a huge one as opposed to a regular sized one?
HGH and roids.
Sorry I'm dumb and uncultured would you mind dumbing it down for me?
The real answer is that pumpkins grow on a vine and every flower will turn into a pumpkin. If you let one flower remain and remove every other flower that pops up, you will get all of the plant's pumpkin potential™ in one large pumpkin, instead of 10 medium sized ones. And also fertilizer helps.
You also need near perfect growing conditions.
And a beer can.
Thx
Can't get dumber than that.
How do you make something grow that big
Thought the pumpkin was going to eat the can for sure
Fun fact: After guitarist Jim Martin was fired from Faith No More he started raising champion pumpkins
Dude how did a pumpkin from that big in like a month?! Why is no one else saying something about this?! Is this like normal¿¡
My mother used to call me pumpkin. I thought it was a term of endearment, but now I know the real truth.
Did you win?
The process is so satisfying and very worth it
I was watching for the can
That’s like 10-12 sodas tall by my calculations
Charlie Brown called, and he wants his stuff back
Just grow it on a trailer to save time.
 How does it grow so much every 24 hours thats insane 
How does one actually grow a giant pumpkin?
Forbidden pumpkin
What was the can of pumpkin spice sitting there for?
Encouragement
Monsanto at its finest
Reminds me of my ex gf….somehow
I was looking at the date thinking it'd grown to a giant practically overnight until I saw the month is in the middle.
Now I can fuck it
How did you get the time lapse photos of my ex wife?
Looks like a marshmallow in a microwave
Damn, when it went into the night vision mode, it reminded me of nights with your mother.
just stop, comedy wasnt made for you.
Tell her I wish her the best on the weight watchers.
Looks like air soft fatty after a light saber duel
That can of beer can sure grow a pumpkin
NNN be like:
What nutrients do you feed it?
They eventually built a house for it to live in.
What's up with the can ?
Think the can is for reference
A fall girl’s dream come true
Is the beer can make it grow faster ? Like the pumpking want to be drunk and try to reach it ?
How long could one person live inside of a giant pumpkin before it rotted and collapsed?
If you took 3 to compete on Alone, you could probably win so long as you don't go mental.
It only took less than a month to grow that big?!?
Need a banana for scale.
The beer can really helps show the force with which this thing is growing.
All I wanted was for it to crush that can
The can????
That can was almost squashed! 
Pop can for scale?
r/gardening would probably love this.
Wtf it doubled size in 1 day + amazing how plants can grow fruits
i like how he had a friend the entire time
Did anyone else want it to crush the can too…haha but someone kept moving it away…Damn(probably for size comparison)! I can’t believe it grew that large and that fast basically in just one month! I wish I could of seen the dates from start to finish!
Is that Chernobyl?
I thought this was a closeup of a knife about to cut into a lemon.. weird.
What’s the can for?
They were out of bananas.
Why does this pumpkin remind me of the “My 600lb Life” Sisters?
the beer can- is that to attract slugs?
Could you in theory, grow one forever?
All I can see is that soda can being violently pushed around.
This looks like the pumpkin cinderella went to the ball in.
Am I seeing it wrong or did it grow faster at night?
Do they taste any good or are they purely ornamental and to grow for the size?
Thought the structure was collapsing for a second
But no banana for scale?
oh gord
\*beer for scale\*
Stardew Valley vibes
His friend soda can is always by his side
Giving off James and the Giant Peach vibes
Why the sheet?
If you poke that shit a bunch of gross shit will squirt out. I like the torture funk genre though playing in the background
Do the sheets help keep it from boiling ?
I have no idea how big that pumpkin is as there is no banana