Chinese Farmers Face 'Exploding' Watermelon Problem, page 1

Exploding melons huh? First analogy was that a growth hormone/agent was used days before the melons began exploding, but other other farmers in the same area experienced exploding melons also, without the treatment.
The melons are all from Japanese seeds(surely they were not exposed to radiation?), and this is the only constant factor.

He said he had used chemicals to boost their growth on 6 May, and the following day more than 180 melons exploded. Mr Liu was reported to be the only farmer from the 10 households who used chemicals.

Wang Dehong, who has been farming watermelons for 20 years, couldn't understand why his fruit also exploded as he had not used any chemicals.

Agricultural experts investigating the incident were unable to offer an explanation.

www.bbc.co.uk...

China Central Television said farmers were overspraying their crops with the growth promoter, hoping they could get their fruit to market ahead of the peak season and increase their profits.

I can't think of anything else that would cause this, than additives/chems. Unless it was super hot, but that does not seem to be the case.

Peace,
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reply to post by snowen20

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Well now you can rest easy!
Just don't buy any Chinese watermelons!

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reply to post by Cryptonomicon

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No doubt huh? I already steer clear of Chinese Seafood products, as most of them are farm raised and, as you say, are saturated with chemicals, especially shrimp and catfish. I recall several reports confirming this too.
It does seem strange, the logic of feeding the tainted melons to another food source.

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reply to post by Cryptonomicon

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Exploding fish will be much more worse, imagine the smell of exploded fish guts everywhere uhhh....stay away from the fish markets. Wait until the terrorists get their hands on this stuff.

reply to post by EDL2011

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Deep down we are all sickos.
I just ate some watermelon yesterday and I live close to China, I wonder if I will see anything like that here.

reply to post by speculativeoptimist

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Waiting for mansanto people to explain why in 5 4 3 2 ........

reply to post by Wolvo

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Lmao so thats where saddam hid the WMD's

That would be MMD no? Melons of mass destruction?
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