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British Columbia, Canada

If I drilled a hole through a baby pumpkin and filled it with a toothpick and kept adding larger cylinders as it grew, then removed it when it's big enough to not fill itself in, could I grow a pumpkin with a hole through it?

6/29/2015 11:57:44 PM

Citrus Heights, CA

No.

6/30/2015 1:04:12 AM

Netherlands

It would rot.

6/30/2015 2:47:50 AM

Central NY

Lol jabby....why?.,. What was yer thought??...lol

6/30/2015 12:47:43 PM

Stanwood, Washington

Well I had a pumpkin that had a blossom split that put on an extra 200 pounds so I am sure you could keep it going at least for a while. I don't know if you would be able to get it all the way through the season though.

6/30/2015 1:44:05 PM

Johnston, Iowa

Anything is possible. Well almost anything . . .

http://www.hexapolis.com/2014/10/17/frankensteins-monster-shaped-pumpkinsteins-for-halloween/

6/30/2015 3:49:16 PM

British Columbia, Canada

Just curious! I'm not growing this year so these are the kind of questions I'll ask. Hahaha

6/30/2015 4:17:37 PM

Central Illinois

Just thinking in my head (bad idea) I wondered a few times if a pumpkin broke through to the cavity but was in some type of sealed box filled a inert gas, would it survive for quite awhile, the outside of the pumpkin would need to be sterile too, I guess ,in my head.

7/1/2015 8:12:41 AM

Winston Salem, NC

This is down the rabbit hole but baitman I think you have it. Theoretically, if you put gas ports on the box so that you could completely purge the chamber of oxygen, and backfill with nitrogen or argon, you could remove the reactive species that cause rot.

7/1/2015 10:27:47 AM