Is this "pumpkin ancestor"?The town market is now giant pumpkin diameter as large as a bicycle. Experts: relatively rare

Jimu Journalist Ding Peng

On September 24, when a woman in Fushun, Liaoning, she took a giant pumpkin sold by a grandmother when she was in a hurry. On the 25th, the woman told Jimu Journalist that she was a giant pumpkin she took when she was on Saturday. Next Saturday, she planned to ask the grandmother why the pumpkin could grow so big.

Women's rush to take a giant pumpkin (video screenshot)

The online video shows that on the vegetable stall in a bazaar, an old grandmother is organizing the vegetables. The giant pumpkin next to her is particularly noticeable. Pumpkin has been cut about a quarter, but it is not difficult to see the pumpkin. The diameter of the bicycle wheels not far away is larger, and it seems that the entire pumpkin is seven or eighty pounds. The video publisher said: "Today I saw the ancestor of Pumpkin."

In this regard, some netizens said: "A pumpkin is enough for a month to participate in the competition." Some netizens said: "I have seen such a big one at the Vegetable Expo." "

Pumpkin exhibited in the planting exhibition area of ​​Changchun City, Jilin Changchun City

On the 25th, the video publisher Ms. Mo (Hua Name) told Jimu Journalists that she was a giant pumpkin taken on Qiandian Daji, Qiandian Town, Fushunshun City, Liaoning on the 24th. She plans to take a look at the gathering next Saturday. If the grandmother is still there, she will ask her why pumpkin can grow so big. Ms. Mo also said in the video comment area that the pumpkin seen at the scene looks larger than in the video.

A merchant near the incident also confirmed to Jimu Journalists that on the 24th, she also saw the giant pumpkin sold by her grandmother when she passed by the vegetable stall, but she had cut off halfway when she passed.

Jimu reporters noticed that at the Changchun Agricultural Expo Park in September 2021, about 600 kilograms of giant pumpkin was exhibited, which attracted the attention of many audiences. On the 25th, Xue Zhuzheng, a researcher at the Vegetable Research Center of the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told Jimu Journalists that pumpkin and nest melon are the same plant, but the names of the north and south are different. Normal pumpkin grows to seven or eighty pounds. Breeding can grow to hundreds of pounds or more.

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