Exploding watermelons and exploding hysteria





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Linda Chalker-Scott


9 thoughts on “Exploding watermelons and exploding hysteria”

  1. Kenny, I’m not sure what exactly causes the split in every case, but my understanding is that if the outer tissues have already finished expanding but the internal fruit tissues continue to accumulate water then you get splitting. Generally, we’re warned to cut back watering during fruit set to avoid this. Inappropriate use of growth regulators could alter the fruit’s ability to take up water (in other words, take up more water later in development). I just don’t know for sure, since it’s an area outside my expertise.

  2. The phrase “failed to render control” leads me to believe it’s a Microsoft Sharepoint thing. Plus, I get the error whether I use Chrome, Mozilla, or IE.

    I’m subscribed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGardenProfessors in Google Reader. The link I follow from Google Reader to read Jeff’s Bt post looks like this: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGardenProfessors/~3/–3uXkegrGA/bt-in-the-bloodstream.aspx

    I dunno. It’s more of an annoyance more than anything else, because once I get here, I can navigate to the error-free page for the post. At least I know there’s a new article to read when something pops up in the RSS feed 🙂

  3. I was definitely disappointed that the watermelons were just splitting and not actually exploding. I wonder why a watermelon exploding is so funny. Especially if unsuspecting people are around. Candid Camera should look into this.

  4. Linda/Dirt Gently – Not to hijack the (very good conversation), but I get the same error myself. I suspect I’m subscribed through the same feed (I have it on my Yahoo page). It’s been going on for at least a month (it was totally broken at one point).

  5. Linda/Dirt Gently/Jo , I always get this error in my Mozilla (and mentioned in in an other comment some months ago). What I do is strip everything that follows .aspx in the address and delete for example “?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGardenProfessors+(The+Garden+Professors)” . Something in this variable is messing it up.

    Here in Greece water melons, when fully ripe, have a very special tension inside and can crack open with a soft slap of the hand. This happens with homegrown water melons we raise in a back yard that have no growth hormones added. Surely, just a bit of growth hormone can tip that tension off the scale and have them erupt spontaneously.

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