Exploding watermelons! Acres of crops erupt

www.msnbc.msn.com...

Danyang farmer Liu Mingsuo ended up with eight acres of ruined fruit and told CCTV he couldn't sleep because he kept picturing exploding watermelons.

this could be thrown in the jokes forum but this is a true story .. exploding watermelons .

and i just had to share it .. lol

i mean how freaking stupid are they?

S&F Great find.

Kinda got me thinking though...

They're putting that stuff on all kinds of fruit and ultimately we're eating some of it. No wonder we're all getting fatter & fatter. Maybe one of these days when I'm feeling especially bloated, I'll hold my breath and give a wee grunt to pass wind and....and......

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Originally posted by Tasty Canadian
S&F Great find.

Kinda got me thinking though...

They're putting that stuff on all kinds of fruit and ultimately we're eating some of it. No wonder we're all getting fatter & fatter. Maybe one of these days when I'm feeling especially bloated, I'll hold my breath and give a wee grunt to pass wind and....and......

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/933c5b277b77.gif[/atsimg]

lmao nice gif. but seriously a friend pointed this out to me or else i would have missed it enitrely ..

hes good like that sometimes

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good find

On a serious note, maybe they'll learn from this and not spray their crops with so many
different chemicals. Somehow I doubt it though. When there's money to be made some
people will do lots of things they shouldn't.

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Explanation: S&F!

Here is some data on the chemical growth enhancer that was used....

forchlorfenuron [alanwood.net]

Status: ISO 1750 (published)
IUPAC: 1-(2-chloro-4-pyridyl)-3-phenylurea
CAS: N-(2-chloro-4-pyridinyl)-N′-phenylurea
Reg. No.: 68157-60-8
Formula: C12H10ClN3O
Activity: plant growth regulators (growth stimulators)
Notes:
Structure:

Pronunciation: for-klor-fěn-ūr-ǒn Guide to British pronunciation
InChIKey: GPXLRLUVLMHHIK-UHFFFAOYSA-N
InChI: InChI=1S/C12H10ClN3O/c13-11-8-10(6-7-14-11)16-12(17)15-9-4-2-1-3-5-9/h1-8H,(H2,14,15,16,17)

And an Australian Governement document pdf on forchlorfenuron and its safety etc...

Evaluation of the new active
FORCHLORFENURON in the product SITOFEX 10 EC PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR [apvma.gov.au]

Personal Disclosure: I wonder if Monsanto has anything to do with this. Or even the petrochemical companies that produce it for the agricultural markets???

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thanks OL for your awesome very awesome addtion to my thread i really appreicate it .

tho i did laugh when i read the story ..

According to the Xinhua news agency, 20 farmers in a village in Jiangsu province planted IMPORTED SEEDS FROM JAPAN, with 10 households saying their watermelons began exploding last month.

I wonder when they were imported from JAPAN?

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I hope the farmers all washed their hands REALLY GOOD after spraying that stuff and BEFORE hitting the urinal, else something else might explode.

They should call the Chemical growth enhancer "Gallagher."
Sorry, that was a dumb joke.