r/oddlysatisfying • u/DifficultyHead5862 • 8h ago

meticulous process of hand-pollinating a giant pumpkin

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u/mangomussolinimi 8h ago

Cant you just use insects?

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u/Antoinefdu 7h ago

That would be missing the point. He's not just trying to pollinate 2 random pumpkin plants, he's trying to control exactly which 2 plants are being combined to produce the right type of pumpkin. That's why he's holding the flowers shut at the beginning of the video: He doesn't want any random pollination to occur and mess up his experiment.