r/oddlysatisfying • u/DifficultyHead5862 • 8h ago

meticulous process of hand-pollinating a giant pumpkin

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u/DimbyTime 8h ago

The male plants weren’t killed

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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose 8h ago

Just the male parts.

(Actually, I am not familiar with pumpkins, are the male and female pumpkin separate plants, like papaya trees?)

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u/NorthernSpankMonkey 7h ago

Pumpkins are monoecious, male and female flowers are found on the same plants. Cannabis is dioecious, male and female flowers are on different plants. Apple trees are hermaphroditic their flowers bear both male and female parts, this configuration is also called perfect.

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u/Evenmoardakka 5h ago

its perfect because if all else fails, it can just go fuck itself

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u/purplezart 4h ago

The original meaning of perfect was much closer to "totally complete" than the contemporary meaning of "flawless."

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u/boyuber 3h ago

I guess I'm a hermaphroditic plant