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I’d like to see one of these that grows nice and round. I wonder if you could rig up some kind of growing frame / harness to prevent them from getting flattened by their own weight.
The Japanese do stuff like that with vegetables and fruit, like putting tomatoes in forms to make them square.
I was at the grocery store the other day and they had these pumpkins that were grown into a mold of a face on one side. Looked like an old man trying to escape from inside. If they weren't $40 I would have definitely bought one
You won't be able to weigh one with the harness and its sudden removal could lead to a real tragedy.
That's true of SO many things!
Yeah I mean really design a mechanism specifically for this. Like slowly lower it as it grows, so that it supports it own weight but without deforming. Maybe lowered into some crater-like hole dug into the ground.
Designing a harness is not that hard but it simply cannot sustain its own weight while forming a perfect shape. Thats like trying to make a water balloon retain a perfect shape. If it was possible, someone would have already done it, trust me.
Could suspend it by the harness to weigh?
It would be near impossible to prevent cheating when anything other than the pumpkin is involved. Thats what I meant by you cant weigh it.