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Kansas City

Ok...maybe I'm a bit of a sadist, but I'm VERY intrigued by the concept of exploding veggies. Anyone have any stories...or better yet PICTURES of theses blown up pumpkins. Maybe this is just an urban legend.

Curious in KC!

3/18/2005 2:01:09 PM

Somers, CT

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/viewarticle.asp?id=80&gid=19

3/18/2005 2:46:26 PM

Kansas City

Cool pics, but I was thinking about them exploding without the use of TNT! Do they really blow up or just crack?

3/18/2005 2:58:35 PM

Western NY

they just crack. i've never heard them tear open, but i don't sleep in the patch, either. it seems to happen at night, when they grow more

3/18/2005 3:03:27 PM

Kansas City

Phooey...was kind of hoping to get splattered with pumpkin shrapnel! :D This pumpkin stuff is addicting! I may not have a wife for long! :P

3/18/2005 3:12:19 PM

Ohio

ill give ya my wife for a couple nickles and a beer, everyone keeps turning her down, last person that turned her down was Craig Weir, I dont think he liked her bad habbits, right Craig?,lol

3/18/2005 3:17:01 PM

Ohio

Craig, i cant find that email I sent you about trading her for a good seed you had up for grabs, Me and my wife laughed for about a half hour about that email, she was still laughing the next day, out of the blues i hear her laughing by herself in the bathroom.lol(wish i could find that email i would have posted it),lol

3/18/2005 3:22:50 PM

Utah

well i had one explode on me... intentionally.
we dropped it from 50ft onto the parking lot ...it was supposed to hit a car- but oh well... I wasn't the one who lined it up ... first i removed the seeds and then I added about 10 gallons of water ... so 671 lbs plus water ... i've got a video clip somewhere ?

but Scotty had two blown up on David Letterman... so I think he wins the exploding pumpkin contest.

3/18/2005 4:32:15 PM

Montoursville, PA

I could make a case for a blown out blossom end. One day I see it badly cracked. The next day I found it some six feet from the end, of the pumpkin.

If it did not blow out itself it was pulled out by a critter. We do have critters. The smell of fresh pumpkin may have just been to much. We did not see any drunk critters or fat sleeping theifs.

Well I could have claimed the pop stampeeded the horse and so forth. :)

3/18/2005 5:23:34 PM

well, they DO blow up with a dull bang. Back in the mid 90's I was really pushing my plants with a custom high fertilizer mixture. Had a big plant and set 6 or so pumpkins, they were volleyball size. Just got done working on the vine one evening and was leaning on the fence admiring the vine when I heard it. I went right to the spot on the vine where it came from, I kinda knew what to expect but coulden't believe it. The pumpkin had blown and was cracked like an egg shell all cracks were about 1/8" wide, just a few minutes before when I was looking at it , it was perfect. I would have never believed it in a million years a pumpkin could blow like that noise and all,but it really did. Must have been a lot of growing pressure in there. It didn't take me long to make my fertilizer blend less potent. All the pumpkins on that vine eventually split.

3/18/2005 6:55:04 PM