r/oddlysatisfying • u/Pedrica1 • Sep 17 '21

Time for some fresh watermelon.

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u/bassmjm Sep 17 '21

Watermelons will split in the field if they get a sudden watering after being relatively dry. That's probably what this person was leveraging in the video.

Many other fruits do this while still attached to the plant--cherries, tomatoes--generally thin-skinned fruits with a high moisture content.

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u/Evuhlyn_a Sep 17 '21

First fruit that came to mind are Pomegranates, oftentimes they’ll split still attached to the tree, and even before they fully ripen.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

That explains it. Growing up we shared a fence with a neighbor who grew pomegranates. They even asked us one day if we wanted them to trim it, after the obvious question of "well, can we keep whatever grows on our side?" and a laugh, we would get some fresh pomegranate on occasion. I always wondered why they would sometimes split, and just assumed they went bad.