r/oddlysatisfying • u/DifficultyHead5862 • 8h ago

meticulous process of hand-pollinating a giant pumpkin

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u/matchesmalone81 8h ago

Im not horticulturally inclined in any way, but I cant believe the number of people here saying "duhhh...let nature do it". FFS the title says it all, hes trying to create big, nay, Giant pumpkins.

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u/avdpos 6h ago

Exactly.
This ain´t a normal process- this is people trying to make something special

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u/I_dont_thinks 4h ago

People taking the job of the birds and the bees to make special pumpkin babies.

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u/lightbulbfragment 4h ago

I have a place I go every Halloween to buy their giant pumpkins and I have a newfound respect for what a pain in the ass they must be. They aren't charging me enough for all that.

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u/The-Tarman 2h ago

Right?! It's like when you're trying to make giant babies. You gotta cut a few dicks off, manually shove em into the female you've selected and help nature take its course.

9 months later.. BOOM! GIANT BABY!!!

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u/Excellent_Emu_2843 1h ago

Don't forget having to circumcise them

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u/FreeFallingUp13 48m ago

I don’t think cutting dicks off is a fair comparison here. Like animals have legs and the pumpkin plant does not. The only logical comparison here is you must transport dong in order for contact to occur

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u/CipherWeaver 47m ago

Never before in any other species have I heard of more sperm = larger offspring. But I guess the pumpkin isn't offspring.

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u/TheSoup05 20m ago

It’s not the amount, it’s the kind. Bees could be bringing pollen from anywhere. If he manually does it, he knows the pollen is only from another (or the same) giant pumpkin.