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Nah, that's just a watermelon at a different stage of ripeness. (I eat like five or six watermelons a year) I've gotten one like that, it's rare because we kno

Nah, that's just a watermelon at a different stage of ripeness. (I eat like five or six watermelons a year) I've gotten one like that, it's rare because we know how to pick em these days.

markdown 4y ago
The seeds are dark brown/black, so it's ripe. And you won't find a watermelon these days with swirls in it.
- throwawaymaths 4y ago
  You can if you buy seeded watermelons? Here is a modern picture of a modern watermelon with slightly less dramatic swirls. If you had bought it a few weeks earlier the swirls would be more prominent: http://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/wp-content/uploads/sites/29639/2015/12/watermelon.png http://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/wp-content/uploads/sites/29639...
  - throwawaymaths 4y ago
    You can also see the swirls come out dramatically if you take a seeded watermelon and leave it in (a very cold, to avoid mold) fridge for a few weeks!
- zdragnar 4y ago
  Nonsense. It isn't just a matter of ripeness, but also how many times the flower was pollinated. I got one from a friend's garden much like it last year.
Buttons840 4y ago
Wouldn't that be like me painting a bowl of fruit (a common thing to practice painting) full of green oranges and green bananas? Why did this renaissance painter decide to paint an unripened fruit cut and prepared for eating?
- thfuran 4y ago
  I don't know, why did Dali paint melted clocks?
  - Buttons840 4y ago
    Fair enough. But are we certain that renaissance watermelon were more like current watermelon than this picture portrays? How do we know? (I don't know the answer, but if someone wants to continue the thread, I'd be interested to read more.)
    - boomboomsubban 4y ago
      Another Renaissance watermelon painting https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Brueghel_-_A_still_life_of_a_watermelon,_cherries,_peaches,_apricots,_plums,_pomegranates_and_figs,_with_lilies,_roses,_morning_glory_and_other_flowers_on_an_acanthus_stone_relief.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Brueghel_-_A... Some people disagree with this, but for more information look at https://imgur.com/a/zN8Kv https://imgur.com/a/zN8Kv
  - zdragnar 4y ago
    The surrealist movement grew out of Dada, which was a reaction to WW1 and the introduction of machine guns and mustard gas. "If this is what the pinnacle of science and reason has gotten us, we must undo it" Clock faces are always flat surfaces- wall clocks, wrist watches, sun dials, etc. The gears and hands require rigid, flat surfaces. If you're going to put a normal item in a surrealist painting, and choose a clock, making it a melting clock is essentially an obvious choice.
- AngryData 4y ago
  From what ive read in the past those patterns can also be cause by just generally poor growing conditions. Which can be cause any number of things like soil composition, water and soil pH, too much shade, weed or pest infestations, lack of water at the right times, etc. All things that today are easily fixed by a quick trip to the store to buy pH up or down, fertilizer, pesticide, or a hose. Ive seen a similar pattern before in a watermelon before too, and it was in a small home grown watermelon, the only one of many but all from the same seed pack. Although I don't remember the specific growing conditions to say what could have been the cause, it did certainly seem under developed compared to its peers. It got picked because it was obviously not growing any more and would have been at risk of rotting in the dirt if we just let it sit there forever doing nothing for another month.

Nah, that's just a watermelon at a different stage of ripeness. (I eat like five or six watermelons a year) I've gotten one like that, it's rare because we know how to pick em these days.

markdown 4y ago

The seeds are dark brown/black, so it's ripe. And you won't find a watermelon these days with swirls in it.

throwawaymaths 4y ago
You can if you buy seeded watermelons? Here is a modern picture of a modern watermelon with slightly less dramatic swirls. If you had bought it a few weeks earlier the swirls would be more prominent: http://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/wp-content/uploads/sites/29639/2015/12/watermelon.png http://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/wp-content/uploads/sites/29639...
- throwawaymaths 4y ago
  You can also see the swirls come out dramatically if you take a seeded watermelon and leave it in (a very cold, to avoid mold) fridge for a few weeks!
zdragnar 4y ago
Nonsense. It isn't just a matter of ripeness, but also how many times the flower was pollinated. I got one from a friend's garden much like it last year.

Buttons840 4y ago

Wouldn't that be like me painting a bowl of fruit (a common thing to practice painting) full of green oranges and green bananas? Why did this renaissance painter decide to paint an unripened fruit cut and prepared for eating?

thfuran 4y ago
I don't know, why did Dali paint melted clocks?
- Buttons840 4y ago
  Fair enough. But are we certain that renaissance watermelon were more like current watermelon than this picture portrays? How do we know? (I don't know the answer, but if someone wants to continue the thread, I'd be interested to read more.)
  - boomboomsubban 4y ago
    Another Renaissance watermelon painting https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Brueghel_-_A_still_life_of_a_watermelon,_cherries,_peaches,_apricots,_plums,_pomegranates_and_figs,_with_lilies,_roses,_morning_glory_and_other_flowers_on_an_acanthus_stone_relief.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Brueghel_-_A... Some people disagree with this, but for more information look at https://imgur.com/a/zN8Kv https://imgur.com/a/zN8Kv
- zdragnar 4y ago
  The surrealist movement grew out of Dada, which was a reaction to WW1 and the introduction of machine guns and mustard gas. "If this is what the pinnacle of science and reason has gotten us, we must undo it" Clock faces are always flat surfaces- wall clocks, wrist watches, sun dials, etc. The gears and hands require rigid, flat surfaces. If you're going to put a normal item in a surrealist painting, and choose a clock, making it a melting clock is essentially an obvious choice.
AngryData 4y ago
From what ive read in the past those patterns can also be cause by just generally poor growing conditions. Which can be cause any number of things like soil composition, water and soil pH, too much shade, weed or pest infestations, lack of water at the right times, etc. All things that today are easily fixed by a quick trip to the store to buy pH up or down, fertilizer, pesticide, or a hose. Ive seen a similar pattern before in a watermelon before too, and it was in a small home grown watermelon, the only one of many but all from the same seed pack. Although I don't remember the specific growing conditions to say what could have been the cause, it did certainly seem under developed compared to its peers. It got picked because it was obviously not growing any more and would have been at risk of rotting in the dirt if we just let it sit there forever doing nothing for another month.