How do farmers grow giant, supersized fruits and vegs?
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It starts with trying to select the best seeds / varieties for doing it. Some farmers will selectively grow and propagate their plants to try and maximise size over several generations if they’re really trying to get the biggest fruit possible.
Then getting the right soil – to get a supersized fruit you need to have a large amount of nutrients in the soil – particularly the ones that encourage strong grown for that particular fruit (e.g. for pumpkins you need a lot of potassium and phosphorus)
You need to pay attention to how much water they’re getting too by using something like deep drip irrigation – it’s a balancing act because you’ve got to keep up a constant flow of water but also make sure your plants don’t sit in soil that’s too damp.
You need to thin your plants out too.I.e. rather than growing multiple fruits off the same plant you’ll thin it down to the best few and then ultimately the one you’re going to try and get supersized so that all the nutrients are going to the one fruit.
Then it’s just patience and a bit (a lot) of luck
Growing supersized fruits and vegies is really something you just do for fun too – more often than not the trade off for getting oversized fruits is that you sacrifice a lot of the taste so those giants fruits/vegies you see will usually taste like shit.
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