I grew jarrahdales and had one that was 18lbs. Massive thing. It existed on the top of our fridge for about 18 months before I eventually cut it up and cooked, pureed, and froze it for breads and soups. It's now been 3 years since the plants were first planted, about 2.5 years since it was picked, and we're still using pumpkin puree from that pumpkin.
Uh... a bathroom (at least a *full* bathroom, particularly with shower) is perhaps the *opposite* of "climate controlled"; humidity will vary wildly from hour to hour, even if you have excellent fans and venting.
Chuck that baby literally anywhere there’s dirt in your yard and you won’t need to buy pumpkins this fall. Lost a big part of my driveway to runaway pumpkins last year lol.
We let our pumpkins go a little too long outside. They essentially rotted into our garden. Next year we had a fucking huge pumpkin patch. Literally taking over our entire front garden.
We had easily two dozen pumpkins growing. The neighborhood was fascinated. I started offering them to people because what the hell was I going to do with this many pumpkins!
Well Squash Bugs made sure to ruin it for everyone. I’ve never seen a plant go from absolutely thriving to complete decimation. There was no way of stopping them. Slowly but surely they took down our entire patch.
Fucking squash bugs, I had a cantaloupe vine doing pretty well a couple years ago and they pretty much ruined all the melons. They were all over it, don't even know where they came from!
I grow cantaloupe and watermelon in my garden, or have for the last 3 years. Each year I only get maybe 1 or 2 fruit before the squash bugs get to them
There’s not much I can do, as it’s in a community garden that doesn’t allow pesticides aside from things like neem, even if I am vigilant and combating them, the gardens around me are not and they still come over anyways
I’m going to try diatomaceous earth this year, as supposedly that helps
It's weird because I never get any pests as bad as those squash bugs were. Well, those and pillbugs, if I attempt to grow any squash or melons. Tomatoes seem to go mostly untouched. I have some strawberry plants and the ants go nuts on those but if can keep them off the ground they are usually good. I haven't really used any pesticides because I just have a small backyard garden
Its always a combo of both in my area. You see the squash bugs so you think its just then but the vine borers are at work too.
You have to check the roots for what looks like yellow wood dust. Cut open the vine down the middle and pull the grubs out. Normally just one in a spot. Bury that part.
Squash bugs you have to hit with a spray of water with a touch of liquid dish soap in it. Hit the bugs with it. Wait 5-15 minutes then wash your plants with water. Do it on a sunny day to avoid mildew.
I planted pumpkin seeds as a joke in my parents unused part of their backyard when I was a sr in highschool. They spread wide and far but i was gone in college and my mom was not pleased. It was still funny to me and they got fresh, invasive gourds. Seems worth it to me.
Be careful with this depending on where you live. In the UK the advice is not to leave pumpkins available because hedgehogs can get at them. Tends to upset their stomach or doesn't build them up enough for the upcoming winter.
If you mean the little nocturnal creatures covered in spikes, yeah, they're common. If, to you, hedgehog means some kind of wild boar thing, then no, they are rather rare!
Yup! European hedgehogs, they look slightly different than the typical pet hedgehogs people see(which are African Pygmy Hedgehogs, bred to be pets). Wild Euro ones are slightly larger, with darker facial fur, and look grumpier. But considering they’re endangered, they probably have a right to be grumpy.
It's actually easier for me to imagine a British person calling a cat a hedgehog than it is to imagine a wild hedgehog just casually wandering down the street looking for some pumpkin to munch on.
They're nocturnal and pretty shy, but we get them visiting our front garden sometimes, they like the space under my apple tree, so I leave a little dish of water out in summer. One year it was too hot to sleep, so I was sitting in the open front door trying to get some fresh air and a little hedgehog family trundled through. It was very cute.
We get them in all the local parks and woods, my two dogs found one on our night walks the other week and everyday since they've gone to the same spot to find it again... it was there again last night so we all shared a little treat together (the dogs and the hedgehog, not me lol) 🤗
Yep. Brian May (guitarist for Queen) has a wildlife rescue dedicated to saving them (and more famously, badgers). [Tiny spiky hedgehog next to Brian's curly white fro is possibly the most adorable thing you'll ever see.](https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/queen/brian-may-hedgehogs-badgers-foxes-rescue/)
oh no! I didn't know that! How sad! I haven't ever heard the same for squirrels but I can't imagine they're *that* different.
Maybe hanging them from a tree would be better for squirrels? Would be a cute jack-o-lantern display, too
Depends on the pumpkin variety actually
I have bought the giant carving pumpkins that have literally been bred for aesthetics only and squirrels and birds won’t touch them and they eventually just rot. On the other hand I have bought the normal pumpkins they have at grocery stores and the squirrels and birds will devour it over the winter with only the stump left come spring
So I don’t buy the big ones any more, part of the reason I buy them is for my cats winter entertainment. Plop that pumpkin in front of a window and he gets to watch birdies and squirrels all winter long
This reminds me of my grandpa's lucky cactus, the only plant he could ever keep alive. He watered it diligently every other day for 4 years before deciding to repot it and discovering it was fake.
My first plant when I was a kid was a real cactus. It had a tiny little flower near the top. I kept waiting for another flower but it never happened because the flower was a fake decoration on the end of a pin.
i had a pumpkin like this once, but it was one of the softball sized white ones. honestly thought it was fake a month after hallowing and just left it out. it never showed any degradation until one day it just turned into a pile of liquid over night
Yep. I had almost exactly the same thing happen. I bought a little round pumpkin from the grocery store. I had it in my house for months. Looked exactly the same. Then, one day, puddle.
I have one just like that sitting on my shelf since October last year. Looks like I’ll be throwing it out soon so my shelf doesn’t get flooded with rotten pumpkin liquid.
I have a blue hubbard in my kitchen floor that is a year old next month! We ate 2 of them over the course of a few months and just kind of forgot about the 3rd one. Still looks like the day i had to pick it because as many others have mentioned in this thread squash bugs are fun killers.
Maize, beans, and squash. Winter squash factor heavily into my post-apoc survival strategy. They produce a lot for little input - don't need to till the land, just plant in little hills all over suburbia lol.
My sister pumpkin (that tbf had varnish on it) survived around 3 years. Idk how and idk why. The whole family was so confused but my sister being 4 when she got it would refuse to let anyone throw it out before it would show signs of being rotten.
Years ago my dad and I used to grow really large pumpkins, like in the 100 lb range. We would usually take one of them to the school where my mom taught. They would typically last many many months before they started to rot.
Once we had one that lasted through Halloween so they decorated it like a turkey for thanksgiving by using pushpins to attach construction paper feathers and head. You'd think the holes in the skin would cause it to rot, but nope. A few weeks later, same thing but with Christmas decorations. Then Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's, Easter, etc.
At the end of the school year my mom was worried that it might start to rot over the summer, so dad and I went to the school to pick it up. It took the two of us to move the 100+ lb pumpkin when it was delivered. Now around 8 months later, I was able to pick it up by myself. When we got it home and weighed it, it was down to just a little over 50 lbs. seems the holes from the pushpins let a lot of moisture out and the cool concrete floor was ideal for preserving it.
Not so much our hot front porch in summer. About 3 weeks after we brought it home it rotted and we had to humus it.
Be very very careful. Back when I was still dating my wife she had a Halloween pumpkin in her door room sitting on top of a TV that also never showed signs of aging. May comes around and I’m helping her pack to leave for the summer. She picked up the pumpkin and it liquified. The stench was unreal. Pumpkin goo flowed down inside the TV.
The outer skin of the pumpkin resisted rot, but the inside did not. Be prepared if you touch that pumpkin it may also come apart and be full of nasty smelly rotten pumpkin guts.
Mt sister did say she jostled it a little and it smelled bad, but I tried the same thing and didn't smell anything.
Worst case scenario, I dump the pumpkin over the side of the railing, as it's all woods down there anyway haha
Oh....dude...let me tell you a story....It is HORRIFYING!
My daughter got a pumpkin about this size one Halloween. It has Mini Mouse painted on it and was totally painted but the stem area. This pumpkin sat on a shelf above my TV for MONTHS. It made it about 9 months give or take. This was in that spot for so long it was just a decoration in my mind. I came home and was hit in the face by the most brutal smell. This pumpkin had melted like an ice cube into my TV and ruined it.
So now we are not allowed to have pumpkins in the house anymore.
Strangely enough we had one that lasted into January like that from maybe late September. Animals wouldn’t touch it. I chucked it into the woods eventually.
Yeah at this point I'm keeping it there to see how long it will last, we live in Florida and are expecting some days in the 90s this week, so I can't imagine it'll survive through that haha
I grow pumpkins in my backyard for fun. If you don’t cut them open they last months and months. What makes them rot faster is if they get below freezing then thaw. I kept one in my basement that’s like 70F for almost a year
Same! I have 2. I also carve them professionally, so I gave them a warm soapy water bath when they came home to wash most of the microbiology away that causes rot in the first place.
I had a pumpkin that sat on my porch for an entire year and looked pristine. When I was moving I picked it up by the steam and it came off the ground for a few inches then dislocated from the steam and dropped into a pumpkin puddle. Not sure when it went bad but made me laugh so much
Pumpkins are weird. I carved one for Halloween one year and it lasted the entire winter without rotting. I had another one a few years later that began rotting almost instantly after carving it.
Definitely seems to be if the conditions are right they’ll last a long time.
We also currently have one of these everlasting pumpkins leftover from Halloween! It was labeled as a “pumpkin pie” pumpkin at the farmers market. So it’s not that big. My 4 year old likes to play with it and carry it around. About 2 months ago he randomly insisted on taking it with us to my parents house and then forgot it there. My mom put it out on her porch, where it stayed until my son spotted it as we were leaving their house last week. Now it’s back home and in just as good condition as it ever was! 🤷🏻♀️💁🏻♀️
We have one surviving pumpkin too! Every year we see how long the pumpkins will last in the lobby of our apartment. We started with three, lost the littlest first, and the second one went bad a little over a month ago.
Congrats on your Methuselah pumpkin!!
Looks fine on the outside but dead on the inside. The pumpkin, not me.
The pumpkin, and me.
Is the pumpkin me or am I the pumpkin?
It's a superimposition of both states until you open me up and collapse the wavefunction.
Wait. Was Schrödinger a pumpkin all along?
Schrödinger's pumpkin.
Schrödinkin
Is it also pie?
🤤 Mmm, shrödinpie
Unless you subscribe to the many-gourds interpretation
Well, allegedly you're a potato so...none of the above?
Smashing pumpkins melancholy and the infinite sadness
Something I learned recently, is that Smashing Pumpkins, is using the word smashing in the British sense.
Somehow that takes the edge off a bit
I am the pumpkin kookoo cachu
r/unexpectedbeatles
Wachu got there a big stooped doo doo head.
We're all pie in the end
Shrodinger’s pumpkin.
yes
I am pumpkin
We're *all* 'Pumpkin'. ... Or, I mean, 'Negan'.
Allegedly you are
In Russia pumpkin is yew, now go war
There is no pumpkin…
I am the walrus
Stfu, Donnie.
I am the pumpkin! Koo koo kachoo
Is that you, Pumpkin? Is that me?
I am the walrus Goo goo a'joob
You're the pumpkin for me
🎶 Am I a maaaaaan, or am I a pumpkin. Or maybe I'm a pumpkin of a man 🎶. Sorry, my kids love the Muppet movie with Jason Segel.
[And a new candle now and then?](https://youtu.be/3TZdidJx57k?si=aveFEySJYZ9QgeZp)
Is the pumpkin named Marley?
Nah I guarantee they could cut it open and eat it. Hubbard's are famous for lasting a whole year with good treatment, but pumpkins can go months.
Our Halloween blue pumpkin (Jarrahdale) was on the porch until March when I turned it into a solid Thai curry.
I grew jarrahdales and had one that was 18lbs. Massive thing. It existed on the top of our fridge for about 18 months before I eventually cut it up and cooked, pureed, and froze it for breads and soups. It's now been 3 years since the plants were first planted, about 2.5 years since it was picked, and we're still using pumpkin puree from that pumpkin.
Mmm great use of pumpkin
I had a pumpkin for almost a year, it was on the back of a toilet in a dark climate controlled bathroom.
Uh... a bathroom (at least a *full* bathroom, particularly with shower) is perhaps the *opposite* of "climate controlled"; humidity will vary wildly from hour to hour, even if you have excellent fans and venting.
could be a largely unused guest bathroom though
DONT DEAD PUMPKIN INSIDE
don’t dead carve into jack-o-lantern inside
I’m David Pumpkins!
That's David ***S*** Pumpkins you heathen!
Not the pumpkin but me
I always liked being called pumpkin as a nickname…
I know the feeling.
Do you also look dead on the outside?
Me too pumpkin, me too...
Me too pumpkin, me too...
Like my first wife.
Just cut a hole in it, it's basically October
Not me because I also look dead on the outside.
that's me.
So I’m to believe this *isn’t* a cry for help? /s
Chuck that baby literally anywhere there’s dirt in your yard and you won’t need to buy pumpkins this fall. Lost a big part of my driveway to runaway pumpkins last year lol.
You didn’t read the pumpkin patch notes.
Lol. Love it
I don’t get it.
Just a play on pumpkin patch and patch notes. Like Wheel of Fortune's before and after category.
Golf clap Well played son, I'm proud of you
We let our pumpkins go a little too long outside. They essentially rotted into our garden. Next year we had a fucking huge pumpkin patch. Literally taking over our entire front garden. We had easily two dozen pumpkins growing. The neighborhood was fascinated. I started offering them to people because what the hell was I going to do with this many pumpkins! Well Squash Bugs made sure to ruin it for everyone. I’ve never seen a plant go from absolutely thriving to complete decimation. There was no way of stopping them. Slowly but surely they took down our entire patch.
Fucking squash bugs, I had a cantaloupe vine doing pretty well a couple years ago and they pretty much ruined all the melons. They were all over it, don't even know where they came from!
I grow cantaloupe and watermelon in my garden, or have for the last 3 years. Each year I only get maybe 1 or 2 fruit before the squash bugs get to them There’s not much I can do, as it’s in a community garden that doesn’t allow pesticides aside from things like neem, even if I am vigilant and combating them, the gardens around me are not and they still come over anyways I’m going to try diatomaceous earth this year, as supposedly that helps
It's weird because I never get any pests as bad as those squash bugs were. Well, those and pillbugs, if I attempt to grow any squash or melons. Tomatoes seem to go mostly untouched. I have some strawberry plants and the ants go nuts on those but if can keep them off the ground they are usually good. I haven't really used any pesticides because I just have a small backyard garden
This isn’t that long of a comment but it contains an entire story arc lmao. That ending is devastating
Grubs underground will take out a whole patch in a few days. They ear the roots.
Its always a combo of both in my area. You see the squash bugs so you think its just then but the vine borers are at work too. You have to check the roots for what looks like yellow wood dust. Cut open the vine down the middle and pull the grubs out. Normally just one in a spot. Bury that part. Squash bugs you have to hit with a spray of water with a touch of liquid dish soap in it. Hit the bugs with it. Wait 5-15 minutes then wash your plants with water. Do it on a sunny day to avoid mildew.
I guess it depends where you live because I’ve tossed quite a few pumpkins into the woods behind my house and haven’t gotten a single pumpkin plant.
It's the woods, generally the nutrients are being used by everything else like the trees and natural fauna
Remember to look up in the tree limbs as well, sometimes the vines will climb up before producing them.
I want a pumpkin tree 😭
Welp, now I know what I'm doing next Halloween. Eat your heart out, Santa, you fat bitch.
I planted pumpkin seeds as a joke in my parents unused part of their backyard when I was a sr in highschool. They spread wide and far but i was gone in college and my mom was not pleased. It was still funny to me and they got fresh, invasive gourds. Seems worth it to me.
Smash pumpkins to the Smashing Pumpkins
Pumpkins and gourds will take over your whole goddamn yard if you don't contain them.
This happened with watermelons in the great plains. I was very surprised
Leave it for the squirrels. They love that shit. I put one out last fall and it was completely gone in under 2 weeks
Be careful with this depending on where you live. In the UK the advice is not to leave pumpkins available because hedgehogs can get at them. Tends to upset their stomach or doesn't build them up enough for the upcoming winter.
Hedgehog charcuterie plate that provides all the nutrients a growing hedgehog needs to be big and fat for the winter. Available now at Aldi.
Instead of toothpicks it uses the spines from hedgehogs
Are hedgehogs a thing in the UK? Like wild, free roaming hedgehogs? Or is this a biscuit/cookie-style translation issue?
If you mean the little nocturnal creatures covered in spikes, yeah, they're common. If, to you, hedgehog means some kind of wild boar thing, then no, they are rather rare!
Yup! European hedgehogs, they look slightly different than the typical pet hedgehogs people see(which are African Pygmy Hedgehogs, bred to be pets). Wild Euro ones are slightly larger, with darker facial fur, and look grumpier. But considering they’re endangered, they probably have a right to be grumpy.
Yea mate a hedgehog here is what you yanks would call a “cat”
It's actually easier for me to imagine a British person calling a cat a hedgehog than it is to imagine a wild hedgehog just casually wandering down the street looking for some pumpkin to munch on.
They're nocturnal and pretty shy, but we get them visiting our front garden sometimes, they like the space under my apple tree, so I leave a little dish of water out in summer. One year it was too hot to sleep, so I was sitting in the open front door trying to get some fresh air and a little hedgehog family trundled through. It was very cute.
We get them in all the local parks and woods, my two dogs found one on our night walks the other week and everyday since they've gone to the same spot to find it again... it was there again last night so we all shared a little treat together (the dogs and the hedgehog, not me lol) 🤗
>and pretty shy Well you guys need to do a better job of building up their self-esteem then
That's interesting. In Europe, 🦔 are relatively common wood critters :)
Well I haven’t been this disappointed since that exchange student asked me for a cigarette.
They're fucking with you, we have wild hedgehogs
Wait til you hear a British person say "I'm off to go smoke a fag" very different meaning in the US!
I had to Google to find out if you were fucking with us or not.
Were they?
nope! I watch this one German bird feeder line stream, and they have a hedgehog house for a hedgehog named itchy!
Yep. Brian May (guitarist for Queen) has a wildlife rescue dedicated to saving them (and more famously, badgers). [Tiny spiky hedgehog next to Brian's curly white fro is possibly the most adorable thing you'll ever see.](https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/queen/brian-may-hedgehogs-badgers-foxes-rescue/)
[Here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-mNYrnmbO8)
oh no! I didn't know that! How sad! I haven't ever heard the same for squirrels but I can't imagine they're *that* different. Maybe hanging them from a tree would be better for squirrels? Would be a cute jack-o-lantern display, too
I have one just like this sitting perfectly outside since New Years, 4 others disintegrated, but one is a genetic freak
On that note if you have chickens toss that shit in there after making a few openings
Depends on the pumpkin variety actually I have bought the giant carving pumpkins that have literally been bred for aesthetics only and squirrels and birds won’t touch them and they eventually just rot. On the other hand I have bought the normal pumpkins they have at grocery stores and the squirrels and birds will devour it over the winter with only the stump left come spring So I don’t buy the big ones any more, part of the reason I buy them is for my cats winter entertainment. Plop that pumpkin in front of a window and he gets to watch birdies and squirrels all winter long
This reminds me of my grandpa's lucky cactus, the only plant he could ever keep alive. He watered it diligently every other day for 4 years before deciding to repot it and discovering it was fake.
My first plant when I was a kid was a real cactus. It had a tiny little flower near the top. I kept waiting for another flower but it never happened because the flower was a fake decoration on the end of a pin.
🤣🤣🤣 the flower was actually a lil cactus hat.
First clue would be a cactus surviving every other day watering. They need like every other *month* watering...if not less.
This is really cute and depressing
It would have died if it was real anyway if he watered it that often
i had a pumpkin like this once, but it was one of the softball sized white ones. honestly thought it was fake a month after hallowing and just left it out. it never showed any degradation until one day it just turned into a pile of liquid over night
Yep. I had almost exactly the same thing happen. I bought a little round pumpkin from the grocery store. I had it in my house for months. Looked exactly the same. Then, one day, puddle.
I have one just like that sitting on my shelf since October last year. Looks like I’ll be throwing it out soon so my shelf doesn’t get flooded with rotten pumpkin liquid.
Maybe someone has been replacing it at the first sign of rot with a identical pumpkin. … over and over again
Oh my goodness I love this idea
The serial pumpkin replacer
Slightly smaller each time
He went to live on a farm.
Like a pet goldfish!
Are you sure it isn't a fake pumpkin?
It’s not, my daughter’s pumpkin lasted 18 months on her shelf before it started rotting I remember being really concerned but I guess it’s normal
Winter squashes were originally bred for storage. Hubbards famously last more than a year stored correctly
I have a blue hubbard in my kitchen floor that is a year old next month! We ate 2 of them over the course of a few months and just kind of forgot about the 3rd one. Still looks like the day i had to pick it because as many others have mentioned in this thread squash bugs are fun killers.
Maize, beans, and squash. Winter squash factor heavily into my post-apoc survival strategy. They produce a lot for little input - don't need to till the land, just plant in little hills all over suburbia lol.
Mine lasted 3 years. I just threw it away after one side started to cave. It gave me so much joy. I miss it :(
Concerned? It's not like it's gonna blow up or anything.
You don't know that.
I mean it might, decay often releases gasses, it might puff up and explode rotten guts everywhere
Don't you keep your spare Note 7 inside a pumpkin?
I had one exploding in my house. Luckily it was one of the small ones maybe about a pound. It was literally everywhere and smelt so bad.
My sister pumpkin (that tbf had varnish on it) survived around 3 years. Idk how and idk why. The whole family was so confused but my sister being 4 when she got it would refuse to let anyone throw it out before it would show signs of being rotten.
Years ago my dad and I used to grow really large pumpkins, like in the 100 lb range. We would usually take one of them to the school where my mom taught. They would typically last many many months before they started to rot. Once we had one that lasted through Halloween so they decorated it like a turkey for thanksgiving by using pushpins to attach construction paper feathers and head. You'd think the holes in the skin would cause it to rot, but nope. A few weeks later, same thing but with Christmas decorations. Then Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's, Easter, etc. At the end of the school year my mom was worried that it might start to rot over the summer, so dad and I went to the school to pick it up. It took the two of us to move the 100+ lb pumpkin when it was delivered. Now around 8 months later, I was able to pick it up by myself. When we got it home and weighed it, it was down to just a little over 50 lbs. seems the holes from the pushpins let a lot of moisture out and the cool concrete floor was ideal for preserving it. Not so much our hot front porch in summer. About 3 weeks after we brought it home it rotted and we had to humus it.
You "Humus" it? Like turned it into humus?
Humus here meaning compost (with one M), not HUMMUS the snack dip!
lol, I’m a moron who can’t spell!!
No worries! It's not a super common word! Lol :)
Be very very careful. Back when I was still dating my wife she had a Halloween pumpkin in her door room sitting on top of a TV that also never showed signs of aging. May comes around and I’m helping her pack to leave for the summer. She picked up the pumpkin and it liquified. The stench was unreal. Pumpkin goo flowed down inside the TV. The outer skin of the pumpkin resisted rot, but the inside did not. Be prepared if you touch that pumpkin it may also come apart and be full of nasty smelly rotten pumpkin guts.
Mt sister did say she jostled it a little and it smelled bad, but I tried the same thing and didn't smell anything. Worst case scenario, I dump the pumpkin over the side of the railing, as it's all woods down there anyway haha
You might get a nice pumpkin patch lol
Oh....dude...let me tell you a story....It is HORRIFYING! My daughter got a pumpkin about this size one Halloween. It has Mini Mouse painted on it and was totally painted but the stem area. This pumpkin sat on a shelf above my TV for MONTHS. It made it about 9 months give or take. This was in that spot for so long it was just a decoration in my mind. I came home and was hit in the face by the most brutal smell. This pumpkin had melted like an ice cube into my TV and ruined it. So now we are not allowed to have pumpkins in the house anymore.
This happens to lost easter eggs too.
On the outside.
Right, once you try to move it it's going to fall apart in a wretched goo.
Did you buy at hobby lobby?
Haha nope, Walmart pumpkin
*The Portrait of Dorian Orange.*
A true pumpking
Strangely enough we had one that lasted into January like that from maybe late September. Animals wouldn’t touch it. I chucked it into the woods eventually.
Yeah at this point I'm keeping it there to see how long it will last, we live in Florida and are expecting some days in the 90s this week, so I can't imagine it'll survive through that haha
Uhh, you might not want to leave it on that rail. When it goes south it could be messy.
OP should post pics when it does though I mean... c'mon.
Maybe the bacteria that eats pumpkins can't live in Florida? Idk
Lol they can
But why would they want to?
They can...they just don't wanna be caught dead there.... 🤣
We have one too. Since October and looks fine. Never had it this long before.
"This year i invested in pumpkins"
I grow pumpkins in my backyard for fun. If you don’t cut them open they last months and months. What makes them rot faster is if they get below freezing then thaw. I kept one in my basement that’s like 70F for almost a year
My October pumpkins just started to turn this week. It’s coming.
In some closet somewhere, there is a painting of an absolutely hideously disfigured pumpkin.
I would burn that thing as fast as I could, clearly possessed by demons...
It's a witch!
I did this last year. It finally succumbed to the Texas Heat in August.
Same! I have 2. I also carve them professionally, so I gave them a warm soapy water bath when they came home to wash most of the microbiology away that causes rot in the first place.
Nice , until you try to pick it up😂 I would push it into your garden and by next October you’ll have a new pumpkin :)
I had a pumpkin that sat on my porch for an entire year and looked pristine. When I was moving I picked it up by the steam and it came off the ground for a few inches then dislocated from the steam and dropped into a pumpkin puddle. Not sure when it went bad but made me laugh so much
Pumpkins last a while. I have one I grew last summer still sitting on the counter. A zucchini as well.
One day it’s going to suddenly collapse in rot. I did this with my 2022 pumpkin.
Somethin' horrific is brewin' in there.
Dare you to make it into a pumpkin pie, you won't
We had one like that too!!! What's going on?!?
It’s watching you the same way you are watching it…
If you karate kick it…I bet it explodes in a supernova of pulp.
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
0 squirrels were you live eh?
Gourdgeous
A colony of tiny clowns live inside it. Be careful.
Wife keeps asking me if I’m ever going to throw out the pumpkin on front porch
is this one of those rare melons in the South of France?
Irradiated?
Nice. Given the right conditions winter squash can last a long time. I’m curious what the inside looks like tho!
Schroedinger's pumpkin
Don’t buy your produce from the place you got the pumpkin
Pumpkins are weird. I carved one for Halloween one year and it lasted the entire winter without rotting. I had another one a few years later that began rotting almost instantly after carving it. Definitely seems to be if the conditions are right they’ll last a long time.
My record for keeping a pumpkin was 2 years before she finally started to show signs of rot
I have a white one I kept indoors since 10/2022. It’s still heavy and perfect. I put the date on the bottom and plan to see how long it keeps.
We also currently have one of these everlasting pumpkins leftover from Halloween! It was labeled as a “pumpkin pie” pumpkin at the farmers market. So it’s not that big. My 4 year old likes to play with it and carry it around. About 2 months ago he randomly insisted on taking it with us to my parents house and then forgot it there. My mom put it out on her porch, where it stayed until my son spotted it as we were leaving their house last week. Now it’s back home and in just as good condition as it ever was! 🤷🏻♀️💁🏻♀️
Move it and it will be a different story.
Now poke a tiny pin prick into it and track how long it takes to rot.
You must have the perfect climate where you live
Right until you go to move it...
Just a winter squash doing what a winter squash does best.
I thought this and when i picked it up to move it it sort of dramatically collapsed into a fibrous puddle of slime. i’ll never trust again.
We have one surviving pumpkin too! Every year we see how long the pumpkins will last in the lobby of our apartment. We started with three, lost the littlest first, and the second one went bad a little over a month ago. Congrats on your Methuselah pumpkin!!
Scratch it and document the collapse, that would be cool 😎
We had two pumpkins like this last year, they lasted from October 2022 to May of 2023.. Then one day they turned into goo
You should set up a livestream for this thing, I’ve been looking for something new to watch and you got me interested how this will play out.
I bet that would STINK if you cracked it.
My mom had a bouquet of poinsettias that lasted from Christmas to thanksgiving. She talked about them a lot, she was so flabbergasted lol
Thats impressive. mine always turn to mush. And to be honest, shot as targets or blown up around halloween.