Just a hobby of mine

[johnraleksa]

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I do this as a fun hobby, get a lot of different reactions. The first bottle on the left is a pear from my tree on the farm. I have been trying now for the last 4 years to get two pears in a bottle with no luck. This year I tried it with the apple and it worked. What do you people think of my hobby.

 

[johnraleksa]

View attachment 157961View attachment 157962I do this as a fun hobby, get a lot of different reactions. The first bottle on the left is a pear from my tree on the farm. I have been trying now for the last 4 years to get two pears in a bottle with no luck. This year I tried it with the apple and it worked. What do you people think of my hobby.

That pear has been soaking in vodka for 6 years and has kept it shape .

 

[necchi]

I'm doing cucumbers in a wine bottle this year

 

[Urban Coyote]

Yeah, pretty cool but could you get a pear inside a powder horn?

 

[johnraleksa]

Yeah, pretty cool but could you get a pear inside a powder horn?

Maybe, but you couldn't see it.

 

[Phil Coffins]

That pear would be tasty now!

 

[TDM]

That's very neat! And, for some reason, I have a number of empty liquor bottles lying around here if you need some more!

 

[colimr]

It's witch craft ....... LOL

 

[Dude]

Ok - I know about ships in a bottle, but not fruit.

But fruit can't be made to go through the neck and then expand. I'm guessing a bud was placed in the bottle and once matured, the branch was clipped?

Kinda cool.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

Better change out the vodka on a regular basis.

 

[johnraleksa]

Ok - I know about ships in a bottle, but not fruit.

But fruit can't be made to go through the neck and then expand. I'm guessing a bud was placed in the bottle and once matured, the branch was clipped?

Kinda cool.

Right for me it not a easy thing to do . A group of Monks do it and sell it by the thousands. Maybe they have better trained trees

 

[hanshi]

That either takes magic, a juju man or high level cleverness.

 

[new2bp]

While not too unusual it is cool, and what is even better is that it is cool to YOU. It is also how the Japanese get square watermelons - they just put the fruit in a box as it grows. They do this to maximize shipping efficiency since it all costs so much (a mostly ripe melon is almost a hundred dollars over there)

I regularly nuke my browser info at work, and so my youtube random recommendations on the homepage get pretty interesting. Got onto a pattern for a while of watching inventive limited space gardening, where vines etc are trained and watermelons are grown hanging in little hammocks, etc. Seems like combining the growing technique so you end up with blossoms near things that will easily support bottles as they grow, etc. with your bottling hobby could prove... fruitful.

 

[hawkeye2]

Remember the old egg in a bottle trick? Soak the egg in vinegar and when the shell softens roll it into a shape that will pass through the bottle neck. It will return to its original shape when it dries out.

 

[Capnball]

View attachment 157961View attachment 157962I do this as a fun hobby, get a lot of different reactions. The first bottle on the left is a pear from my tree on the farm. I have been trying now for the last 4 years to get two pears in a bottle with no luck. This year I tried it with the apple and it worked. What do you people think of my hobby.

That's different alright.