[hophead]

"Well, they might be getting close to the limit - what is the maximum air speed a pumpkin can withstand without disintegration?"

These guys grow their own engineered pumpkins in secret patches. They are really into it. I went last year and had a great time. Its hard to find people like these chunkers having a better time with life.

[GSlob]

If a growing pumpkin is encased in a (removable) plexiglas tube, it will have to grow in the shape of longish cylinder. Not quite HPBT, or BT spitzer, but coming closer.

[Chode]

yeah... you could grow them in long metal sleeves the same diameter as the tube so they would grow longer than wide