Monday, October 25, 2010

The Great Pumpkin

In honor of Halloween being this Sunday we have a little mixture of science and Halloween!
Check out the following video!

Pumpkin Physics

76 comments:

Zach "Hillshire" Viox said...

I wish we could grow those at rapid . I wonder how many pies you can make out of that.

Anonymous said...

@ Zach
ME TOO!!(:

CameronIan said...

thats awesome. Hey has anyone heard about the man that grew the worlds largest lemons and limes imagine how much 7UP that guy could have. This is great for pumpkin pies though.

Taylor's blog spot said...

man those pumpkins are really big but i bet i could grow a even bigger one, mabey, most likey, o.k. probly not. That is pretty cool how they grow and how they are lay when they grow affects how they turn out.

Mauricio,Courtney said...

Don don dahhhh the MONSTER PUMPKIN!
LOL! I LOVE SCIENCE IT'S SOO INTERESTING! OMG LOVE THE PUMPKINS!

Taylor's blog spot said...

yea that is cool, but what i think is cool is how they turn out and how the way they grow effects the way the turn out, and i bet i could grow the biggest pumpkin ever and i could live in it! yea i have alot planed for my life

Mauricio,Courtney said...

@ Zach LOL if only WE could grow that big! then i wouldnt be so short you are sooo right! I wonder what kind of science goes into baking those huge pies!

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

Omg those are huge pumpkins i really want to see how big they really are. It would be so cool if we really got to grow those and watch them grow a little bit every day.

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

@ian i havent heard of that but it would be cool to see and i love 7up

Anonymous said...

I think that is a very big pumkin i wish that i had that big pumkin
Sarah Savard

Peters,Jennifer said...

Wow! How in the world di it get sooo big? It seems almost impossible for a oumpkin to grom up to 1800 pounds, but apparently not! I would like to see this pumpkin for myslef.

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

thats a huge pumpkin!!! we could fit jen in there!!!!! haha (:
but how did it get that big i mean its ridiculosly huge! i wish i could grow a pumkin like that!

Andrew Gibbous McCarthy said...

If i had one that big i would hollow it out and sleep in it.Or carve it in a giant face

Peters,Jennifer said...

@ Courtney
I would love to kknow the science that goes into making huge pies too! Maybe if they take the biggest pumpkin and make a oie, they can make the world's largest pumpkin pie!

Andrew Gibbous McCarthy said...

@ zach
that would be awsome it would be the school pet

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

@ jen peters
i wold also like to see the pupkin!
its 1800 pounds?!!!?



HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!(:

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

@ zach viox
i also said i wish we could growm pumpkins that big everyone coukld have pumpkin pie(:!

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Luke said...

I want to have a pumpkin house!

Savard, Samantha said...

that is so cool how they acn grow a pumpkin that big. I wish I had one of those seeds. I wonder how much u have to pay for those!:)

Lamping Ally said...

Those pumpkins are so big they look fake. You could make a pretty awsome jack o lantern with a pumpkin that big ha! (:

Anonymous said...

WOW! HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF PUMKINS GROWING SO LARGE! i HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT UNTIL NOW! CAN'T WAIT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW PUMPKINS GROW SO DANG LARGE.

Anonymous said...

@ally i agree that the pumpkins look so fake. I thinks it would be awesome to grow a pumkin that big!!

Rembold,Abby said...

omg, i want one! those pumpkins are huge! it would take forever to carve and get all the seeds out though.

Anonymous said...

That is so cool! I mean I don't even think that guy knows why the pumpkins grow that big, :)

Lamping Ally said...

@Zach I love pumpkin pie so that would be awesome if they made a huge pie out of one of those.
yummy (:

Rembold,Abby said...

@ luke

if you had a pumpkin house it would eventually rot and then it would just plop down!

Tyler said...

how do u get a pumkin to be sooo big i listened and it never did tell you how to get it so big

stalbaum,lauren said...

i wish i could hide in there and jump out and scare someone

@ ian
only you ian... only you :)

Tchase said...

OMG this is so cool. those are HUGE pumpkins! thehy got all deformed from being so heavy thats awesome

Smith,Courtney said...

WoW! those wher huge! i have never seen a pumpkin that big in my life!

bekah said...

wow that is big. that would be cool if i could grow one that big. i wonder how long it would take and if it would break

Anonymous said...

Alana Gulley
I had no clue pumpkins could get that big!You could probably make 100 pumpkins out of that! Wgat also amazed me was that it got over 500 pounds!!!!! This was a very interesting video(:

Anonymous said...

Alana Gulley
@ T Chase
I agree taylor this is really awesome and kinda wierd looking when they got deformed

Greve, Julia said...

its the great pumkin charlie brown!
i wish i had one that size to carve

Anonymous said...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!THAT IS AWESOME I ALSO WISH WE COULD GROWQ THOSE AT RAPID WE HAVE ENOUGH ROOM OUTSIDE EVERYAROUND THE SCHOOL IS COVERED WITH FEILDS EXPECT THE FRONT!IT REMINDS ME OF THE MOVIE JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH!WHO WANTS TO BE JAMES?LYNDSEY ROBERTO!-/

hutson,cody said...

That was so wierd how deformed they were but those would make awesome jackolanterns. I also wonder how much those cost.

Tchase said...

@alana gulley (howver you spell it)
yeah ikr this pumpkin stuff is amazing

Anonymous said...

SAM SAVARD,THAT IS AWESOME I WONDER HOW MUCH THOSE SEED ARE?EVERY HALLWEEN NIGHT MY FAMILY HAS A TRADITION THAT AFTER TRICK OR TREATING WE GO OVER TO MY AUNTS AND BAKE THE PUMPKIN SEEDS I KNOW IT SOUNDS GROSS BUT IT IS REALLY GOOD!i wish my mom could cook one of those hahahahahahahahahahahha lol!lyndsey roberto!

Sydney,Vest said...

WOW! there huge! i dint care how weird they look there HUGE! my family and i got a pumpkin vine and let it grow this year, we had a total of 3 pumpkins and were pretty good size, bbut nothing as good as those huge ones! i thinkn it would be really cool to be able to grow those here. i wonder that to Zach!

hutson,cody said...

@Zach Viox


I agree that would make a lot of pies and they would be very YUMMYLICIOS!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

@ T Chase ohh my jesus i know its so amazing i with h i had a pumpkin that big in my front yard i would use it as a lawn chair!

waters,gabrielle said...

Wow that pumpkin is HUGE!! Iwish i could grow one that would be so cool. My naber has a small garden and he grows some pretty big pumpkins and one year he gave us one and we could not get it in side it was to big!GO PUMPKIN PIE!!

bader,lindsay said...

that was cool i never knew that these pumpkins could get this big i wish i could grew one of my own

Tchase said...

@alana gulley
ikr!! like pumpkins are awesome seating!! i wish i had a big pumpkin to use as a bed!! :P

Riley, Olivia said...

WOW!!! those pumpkins are huge!!! i want a pumpkin like that to carve for halloween. I wonder what my neibors would think if it was in my front yard... Interesting ideas...

Anonymous said...

Alana Gulley
@ T Chase
NO!!! I wouldnt use it as a bed that wuould be so uncomfortable to sleep on!!!!!!!!

walter burkart said...

thats cool i wish they sold pumkins that big at stores pumpkin pie yum

johnson, allison said...

Allison johnson that would be cool if you could grow pumpkins that big. How could they get that big?

Anonymous said...

sam keethler- i love pumpkins its all about halloween and i love halloween but back to the real world its prety intresting how big pumpkins can grow. ps. have a great halloween

johnson, allison said...

@moehring deeanna i also wish that anybody could grow huge pumpkins. it would be cool. allison johnson

alyssa weber said...

that video was super cool!
i wish we knew of a way to keep them from colapsing so that they wouldn't look so alien

John Dinger said...

i have always wondered why big pumpkins are deformed. now i know. that was interesting. (have a happy halloween too sam keethler.)

thanks for a great quarter mrs.hoffman

alyssa weber said...

@zach
i wish we could go those at rapid too we could have pumpin pie every day!

Anonymous said...

Oh wow! thats insane, i didnt know pumpkins could get that big
_sara Voigt

gaddis,breanna said...

my aunt once told me that there have been people that grow that big of pumpkins then they make boats out of them then race them in water like an actual boat!!!!!

cirkovic, daniel said...

That is cool. HUGE pumpkins in that video. I never knew that some places of the pumpkin grew faster than others. Intersting.

gaddis,breanna said...

@ally
i hate pumpkin pie!!! but it would be cool to see that big of a pie!! hhaa




B
HAPPY HOLLOWEEN!!!
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Jenkins,Tom said...

imagin going home saying,"ma!get the oven ready, i grew a 18/20 ton pupkin!

MooreKassidy said...

That pumpkin Is Huge (The one they filmed growing.) I want to grow a pumpkin,(:

cirkovic, daniel said...

@ Zach Viox

Yeah that would be cool if we can grow pumpkins that big. It would be cool to see how many pies we can make.

Dupont, Noah said...

Now im craving pumpkin pies and pumpkin spice doughnuts...
Also those pumpkins are HUGE! I immediatly thought of Charley Brown XD

Calderon, Heidi said...

OMG!! This was an amazing video. it was hilarious though at how big the pumpkin was when that little boy was walking by the row of pumpkins. I wish that i could grow a pumpkin that bigg. Haha as big as that pumpkin is it could make a thousand of pumpkin pies.(:

rentz,monica said...

I wish we could grow pumkins like that here.If we had a a pumkin like that we could make alot of pumkin pie.

rentz,monica said...

@ zach

That would be cool to have pumkins that big here.

Thorp,Jayden said...

That is one big pumkin that would be hard to carve thats i what think.

Schwab,Izzy said...

that is one small pumpkin... JK that is huge! hmmm i like pumpkins!!!

Thorp,Jayden said...

@ zach viox
yeah 6 th grade would be set for pie day

Joseph Pegg said...

Joseph Pegg-

I did not know that pumpkins can get that big. Somebody can live in there.

Reis, Elizabeth said...

Thats a reeeeallly big pumpkin. How do you get them to grow that big? I would be really mad if something happened to my giant pumpkin. Too bad I dont like pumpkin pie though !

Anonymous said...

josh parsons-That is amazing how they grow the pumpkins to super size. That would be interesting to learn more about and make one myself.

Anonymous said...

i know did you think thoose pumkins where huge
@taylorblog spot
Sarah Savard

Peters,Jennifer said...

@Elizabeth Reis
Yea I totally agree with you I would not want ANYTHING to happen to my huge pumpkin. I mean after all the hard work to get it that big and all!

Lamping Ally said...

@ Breanna
That is so cool that they would race big pumpkins like that in water haha! (:

Anonymous said...

WOW!!! HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIABLE!!
i mean really 1800 that is huge!! i would love to get a pic of that in person.that is so cool!!
--Sydney Polking

Anonymous said...

what is the biggest pumpkin you have ever grown or bought