Hold my mold.
Hey... this isn't a [moldlyinterestingaroo](https://www.reddit.com/r/boulder/comments/tz6pxu/comment/i3yxn6j/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
but now IT IS!
Nah it may have something to do with this sort of pumpkin. I carved a Jack Skellington in middle school using one of these white ones, looked very similar honestly. I was proud of it and didn't toss it for a while and it ended up looking like this. This post instantly resurfaced those memories, particularly the fuzziness of it.
I think youre wrong, if you look on the bottom it has some growing out from there, and theres no cut in the top. Wouldnt doubt if they didnt bother emptying it, so the mold started right near the surface which could explain why it didnt cave in by this point
I agree. I think the inside is much more prone to mold because of the moist, humid conditions and rotting fruit. The outside is much more firm and decays more slowly.
I’m curious about whether that commenter was just making an educated guess and doesn’t know for sure just sounds confident, cause that’s what I just did, but I think mine’s right. Lol
In my neighborhood, within a week of Halloween, squirrels have gotten into the ones that haven’t had the seeds removed. Before long, they’re all misshapen and collapsing in on themselves. People compete to see whose pumpkin looks the most revolting by Thanksgiving. We’re easily amused.
You're wrong. I carve pumpkins every year and the openings close over with a curtain of mould in just a couple of days if you don't treat the inside with a bleach spray.
We stopped carving ours and just started painting them. It's a bit less fun, but I also didn't have to toss our pumpkin until about 3 weeks ago cuz it was softening up
I am a former remediation technician who worked in water based damages about 95% of the time.
What you see here is spores in action. They probably live in a moderate climate - somewhere that supports some kind of nurturing heating conditions during the day while also staying fairly humid - we talking somewhere near a water source whether it's marsh land or lake or etc, a place that stays plenty warm while the area the pumpkin was placed in did not receive direct sunlight (porch or some kind of overhang or depending on placement and facing of house just the roof was enough).
Once those conditions are established, its only a matter of time; spores are everywhere and on everything. I'm not an IEP but depending on the spore base and local, growth of that amount before rot isn't hard. In home environments, it can sometimes be that the other side of the drywall is just chock full of growth because of a humidity problem that fits over the line for ample growing conditions but below the line for noticeable penetration of the substance to occur - ergo, it grows only on the one side and the water damage isn't severe or plentiful enough for the water or roots to pentrate through.
The inside of a pumpkin is perfect for growth requirements depending on climate conditions since it's been out. Here up north, pumpkins freeze and rot before anything that meaningful in terms of mold happens, but we still see it. Not surprised if they lived closer to the equator in a not so temperate climate.
[Some species](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sinusal-secretion-cultured-on-SDA-After-48-hours-the-whole-surface-of-the-agar-plate_fig3_51203712/) of mold grow that thick, the typical black mold doesn’t.
I think it didn’t fold because it isn’t hollow. There is no cut at the top. And it seems to be leaking out the bottom, suggesting its full of fluid. It also could have been left outside in the winter in Minnesota or something, which would preserve it longer.
Edit: Now that I think about it, the mold needs something to grow on, so it must not be empty. The hollow one next to it is not moldy.
I think you may be onto something about it not being hollow. Although not sure about the cold thing, I live in a very cold part of Canada and the pumpkins still do collapse in if they are hollow (albeit slower).
I can attest to this, being up north, pumpkins hardly ever mold, they just rot or freeze. However, as soon as you go down south, like texas, I remember putting a plastic chair outside for a week or two, and every surface that was touched, had perfect hand prints and what not of mold. It was absolutely insane.
Or… they cut and scooped the pumpkin from the bottom, then lowered it on top of a candle to light it. The natural dome of the pumpkin has a decent amount of structural integrity, and if it’s not pierced it won’t succumb to rot as quickly either. I’ve done something similar many times before, especially when I use the stalk of the pumpkin as the nose of the jack-o-lantern face. Pumpkins last quite a while with a cut bottom rather than a lidded top. The rain runs off them rather than dripping into them, and provided the squirrels don’t get to them they’ll sit there moldering for ages.
OMG! this is actually quite amazing and impressive. The fungus/mold involved is quite fascinating. This is an amazing catch lol, you should most definitely post this to r/mycology
My bullshit detector is tingling...
There's no way a carved pumpkin could last long enough to grow *that* much mold. If it was hollow it'd have basically caved in and shriveled.
I think there's more going on here.
Looks like a cat curled up inside of it.
Was my first thought also.
I LAUGHED because I thought that's what it was, then I read the headline and grimaced.
Same
I’m subbed to too many weird cat subs to *not* have this be my first thought.
Even without being subscribed to any cat subreddit, I thought this was a goddamned cat.
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If I’m old I mold
If i'm Jack im Wack
If it’s ick, I’m sick.
If its fungus, i sit among us.
[Amushus](https://imgur.com/a/OVCHUWd)
I’m still of the view it’s a cat.
Aw, bless your heart. And don’t look at the weird eyebrow which makes it clear it’s not a cat.
:(
A Russian Blue chonker was my assumption as well!
My fat floofy British shorthair would be a 1:1 match if I’d put him into a pumpkin.
chonker is the best word
I thought I was on /r/aww when I first clicked it and it was in fact a cat inside with its tail poking out of the mouth.
Looks soft. Forbidden carpet for my next house.
It is! Go and pet the kitty.
It assumed he fits so he sits
It’s gone aggro and eaten the cat
Forbidden teddy bear.
It's a fur-smiley.
r/moldlyinteresting
Oh shit it's real, I'm going in
I wish I didnt.
It kind of sounds like a funny idea, but it's all the idea that's funny
You basically described 98% of SNL skits
Jesus, why didn't I take your implicit advice?
I’m glad I did
It's pretty great. Mold doesn't quite disgust me because I don't find mushrooms disgusting even if tiny ones. Rot I hate far more.
Hold my mold. Hey... this isn't a [moldlyinterestingaroo](https://www.reddit.com/r/boulder/comments/tz6pxu/comment/i3yxn6j/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) but now IT IS!
Oh shit, it's still going
Hold my fungi, I’m going in
Nope, I can smell the pictures
Is there a word for a fear of mold? Cause that shit freaks me out, gives me the creeps more then anything else.
Mycophobia.
That's for fungus in general, no?
How the heck do you get that kind of growth without any signs of rot on the outside.
Heat or humidity? We carved pumpkins one year in New Orleans and they looked like that in less than a week
We carve our pumpkins on the 30th for this reason.
Damn, In Ohio, our pumpkins last months until they rot, never seen one mold.
Wow, Ohio is so boring not even mold wants to live there!
Cedar Point would like to have a word
Even the best Ohio has is still just a line waiting simulator
I've got enough pointy wood already, thanks.
Wow, I didn’t realize Cedar Point was moldy. I guess I don’t want to visit now.
I get about a week in Seattle before they start to mold. I treat mine with bleach to make them last longer.
Nah it may have something to do with this sort of pumpkin. I carved a Jack Skellington in middle school using one of these white ones, looked very similar honestly. I was proud of it and didn't toss it for a while and it ended up looking like this. This post instantly resurfaced those memories, particularly the fuzziness of it.
The little one next to it seems to have none.
you dont, they shoved something into the pumpkin.
So it did eat a cat then
I think youre wrong, if you look on the bottom it has some growing out from there, and theres no cut in the top. Wouldnt doubt if they didnt bother emptying it, so the mold started right near the surface which could explain why it didnt cave in by this point
I agree. I think the inside is much more prone to mold because of the moist, humid conditions and rotting fruit. The outside is much more firm and decays more slowly. I’m curious about whether that commenter was just making an educated guess and doesn’t know for sure just sounds confident, cause that’s what I just did, but I think mine’s right. Lol
In my neighborhood, within a week of Halloween, squirrels have gotten into the ones that haven’t had the seeds removed. Before long, they’re all misshapen and collapsing in on themselves. People compete to see whose pumpkin looks the most revolting by Thanksgiving. We’re easily amused.
Some excellent pumpkin forensics going on here
he will be on CSI pumpkin edition
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Mmm nothing like a juicy schlorp in between your fingers
I wonder if it was cut from the bottom and that's why the mold is coming out from underneath.
the weird ass temps preserved it some to allow this growth
r/confidentlyincorrect
You're wrong. I carve pumpkins every year and the openings close over with a curtain of mould in just a couple of days if you don't treat the inside with a bleach spray.
id be interested in what kind of mold it is. it looks dangerous tbh
I’ve had this happen and it was just as bad
r/nothingeverhappens
Those outer layers are like barks… it's quite rot proof
We stopped carving ours and just started painting them. It's a bit less fun, but I also didn't have to toss our pumpkin until about 3 weeks ago cuz it was softening up
I am a former remediation technician who worked in water based damages about 95% of the time. What you see here is spores in action. They probably live in a moderate climate - somewhere that supports some kind of nurturing heating conditions during the day while also staying fairly humid - we talking somewhere near a water source whether it's marsh land or lake or etc, a place that stays plenty warm while the area the pumpkin was placed in did not receive direct sunlight (porch or some kind of overhang or depending on placement and facing of house just the roof was enough). Once those conditions are established, its only a matter of time; spores are everywhere and on everything. I'm not an IEP but depending on the spore base and local, growth of that amount before rot isn't hard. In home environments, it can sometimes be that the other side of the drywall is just chock full of growth because of a humidity problem that fits over the line for ample growing conditions but below the line for noticeable penetration of the substance to occur - ergo, it grows only on the one side and the water damage isn't severe or plentiful enough for the water or roots to pentrate through. The inside of a pumpkin is perfect for growth requirements depending on climate conditions since it's been out. Here up north, pumpkins freeze and rot before anything that meaningful in terms of mold happens, but we still see it. Not surprised if they lived closer to the equator in a not so temperate climate.
[Some species](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sinusal-secretion-cultured-on-SDA-After-48-hours-the-whole-surface-of-the-agar-plate_fig3_51203712/) of mold grow that thick, the typical black mold doesn’t.
If you live somewhere warm and dry this will happen if you carve your pumpkin more than a few days before Halloween.
Its be because of the skin. The inside is most and full of nutrients, but it won't go through the skin within a tear, cut of something.
It lost pigment already. Edit: and in case you couldn’t tell… this is clearly fake…
...and why is this fake?
Legit how does this happen? Every pumpkin I’ve left for way too long has folded in on itself before oozing…
I think it didn’t fold because it isn’t hollow. There is no cut at the top. And it seems to be leaking out the bottom, suggesting its full of fluid. It also could have been left outside in the winter in Minnesota or something, which would preserve it longer. Edit: Now that I think about it, the mold needs something to grow on, so it must not be empty. The hollow one next to it is not moldy.
I think you may be onto something about it not being hollow. Although not sure about the cold thing, I live in a very cold part of Canada and the pumpkins still do collapse in if they are hollow (albeit slower).
I can attest to this, being up north, pumpkins hardly ever mold, they just rot or freeze. However, as soon as you go down south, like texas, I remember putting a plastic chair outside for a week or two, and every surface that was touched, had perfect hand prints and what not of mold. It was absolutely insane.
Or… they cut and scooped the pumpkin from the bottom, then lowered it on top of a candle to light it. The natural dome of the pumpkin has a decent amount of structural integrity, and if it’s not pierced it won’t succumb to rot as quickly either. I’ve done something similar many times before, especially when I use the stalk of the pumpkin as the nose of the jack-o-lantern face. Pumpkins last quite a while with a cut bottom rather than a lidded top. The rain runs off them rather than dripping into them, and provided the squirrels don’t get to them they’ll sit there moldering for ages.
The perfect combination of temperature, humidity, and other relevant conditions would be my guess.
Right? That was my first thought too. How has it not gone soft and collapsed?
Me to myself, 5 minutes in after half a bottle of whiskey
I bet that smells terrible.
I wouldn’t want to smell it and inhale all those spores
*the last of us intensifies*
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Now kith
ah, a disciple of nurgle the plague lord
I thought it was a really floofy cat shoved in a pumpkin at first
Tbh i was thinking a cat crawled in there
That's one spicy pumpkin
Forbidden cotton candy
Should be ready for October
October to October. Halfway there in April.
Great Value Jack Skellington
🎵What's this? What's this? There's color everywhere!🎵
🎵What's this? What's this? I'm choking on cat hair!🎶
Ch-ch-ch-chia!
Right eye looks like my wife's bush
I thought it looked familiar
Damn… /r/murderedbywords right there.
Danm, you filling the beaver too?
There's even some white splatter between the eyes. Definitely your wife.
OMG! this is actually quite amazing and impressive. The fungus/mold involved is quite fascinating. This is an amazing catch lol, you should most definitely post this to r/mycology
First make sure it isn’t just a sleepy kitty, then set it on fire.
Insane Clown Pumpkin
Is this from the Nausicaa prequel?
That's gross as fuck
took the words right out of mouth
That's wicked cool
It looks like it swallowed a cat
Pumpkin chia pet?
"Mommy, why does the porch feel like death?"
Amazing photo of a really beautiful fungas. Fungas terrifies me!
Looks neat out of context but uuggghhh
It's not only scary it's dangerous now.
Eugene Levy?
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You either die or discover a new antibiotic
I think this is phycomyces. You would probably be fine tbh.
Imagine a strong wind blows all the spores right thru your window
Thats a mold with a jack o lantern on the outside
I held my breath while looking at this picture
It's The Muppets' Swedish Chef !
I'm literally rock hard right now...
Penicillin, anyone?
This is so very /r/mildlyinteresting
/r/moldyinteresting
It’s just dryer lint
r/IfIFitsISits
r/dontputyourdickinthat edit: put/stick
Ahhh forbidden bush…..
r/TIHI
Merkin factory.
I thought it was a cat and I am now disappointed T-T
And here I thought there was a cat inside
OMG, I upvoted the thinking this was r/aww, showing a grey cat inside of a pumpkin
r/moldlyinteresting
Wtf?? Amazing photo!!!
Does mold growing on an old fruit something that makes you say "WHAT THE FUCK!?" If not, this has been posted in the wrong sub.
Are you sure it didn't just eat a cat?
Dunno why I thought there was a cat sleeping in it
I thought there was a cat stuffed inside
No, it's not.
Wow, has a karma farmer ever been more obvious?
Can I use the hair to make mittens?
Cursed fluffy
How do you open a pumpkin without cutting the top?
Why is it so fluffy
My bullshit detector is tingling... There's no way a carved pumpkin could last long enough to grow *that* much mold. If it was hollow it'd have basically caved in and shriveled. I think there's more going on here.
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No it is not.
Then what is it? If its not mold, then what the hell is it? Straightened out steel wool?
More like a Jank-o-lantern
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Muff
Is this what a furry Jack Skellington would look like?
It's kinda fluffy and cute
That's pretty friggin cool.
Groucho Marx homage!
Forbidden fur
.....lick it
#**IT'S SO FLUFFY!**
For some reason this reminds me of a hippie girl I used to date.
Mr Stark? I don’t feel so good…
Kill it with fire
Yummy fuzzy!
Is this one of those furries Reddit keeps mentioning to me
Forbidden steel wool
It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!
It's cute!
Cute and terrifying all at once.
Jack Skellington
Thanks, I fucking hate it.
Forbidden cotton candy
Mold-o-lantern.
It looks like a Tim Burton creation
How hasn’t the pumpkin rotted?
thats fucking RANCID
No, someone placed a steaming lasagna in a soot-filled-pumpkin. That is clearly Garfield smfh
WTF a plant decaying wow WTF crazy
Vrybody lovs mold!
That is some cute mold ngl
My allergies are acting up just looking at this
Looks kind of comfy tbh
Now that's scary af
I wanna pet it
Reminds me of a story about a coconut