Grow a square watermelon

This is really, really easy to do. (Note: you may be able to use this technique to grow other stuff in the form of a square ( actually in the form of a cube) and apply the general idea to other shapes.)

Step 1 Materials and tools

You need 6, 8" square, 3/8" thick (or thicker) sheets of polycarbonate plastic. (Lexan)

You will need 4 gate hinges and 2 hinged clasps with flat head machine screws and hex nuts plus at least 8 or more 1" to 1-1/2" long, thin wood screws and possibly a 36" length of angle iron or aluminum angle (cut to 8" lengths to yield four pieces) if you have thinner polycarbonate, a power drill and hole saw, and a hand saw or power saw such as a jig saw.

Comments

[myakka]

How about triangular( pyramid) shaped ones. Or dodecahedrons!

[myakka]

Or how about make the entire alphabet

[kjohnson40]

we grew a square honeydew (by accident) it was in a cement block we used to "fence" the garden with.

[jameseyboy]

HELP barbies on the bbq

[tinker234]

wow i love this

[moonchylde]

I wonder if this would work with tomatoes, or if the boxes would be too heavy for the vine to support. Another thought I had was two-liter pop bottles (watermelons with feet; they'd also be good for watermelon spikes :P), though I'm not sure if the fruit wouldn't split the plastic. I might experiment with this.

[geoslim13]

to quote Eurotrip "Gotta love that exchange rate!"

[yiumanwan]

does it taste diffrent like sweetness

[aseaheru]

soil might change the taste, also chemicals, water, but thats all that might change the taste

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

nope exactly the same exept shape

[ReCreate]

Wow how did you make large text??

[Derin]

<h1>like this i guess</h1>

[ReCreate]

Hmmm...no...

[qballcat]

Hmmm....yes.  you just do it in the instructable, not on the comments.

[axlrose]

That is so awesome how you can grow square watermelon and sell them for $82.00

[bFusion]

Yeah, but you have to live in Japan for that to happen. Everything, large fruit especially, is expensive over there.

[aseaheru]

1st of season/perfect are more expencive

[awesomeman2468]

in a historical note I believe this was started in china and in most recently the chinese made melons with the mascots from\for the bejing olimpics

[indestructibleguy]

would it work with apples? then you would cut a small cube from inside an fill it with caramel and chocolate syrup... hmmm....

[paperclip32]

I think if you made this box and put a pipe on the middle,you'd have a holed fruit of which you can stuff.

[indestructibleguy]

will the fruit grow around it?

[paperclip32]

It should.I've seen Mickey shaped ones in Disneyland too.

[chocogrape]

I think those are regular apples with marshmallows for ears.

[paperclip32]

I said that further down.

[hawkfrost64]

you can use a cinderblock.

[That Inventor Dude]

genius

[Kofoed]

god, that looks so cool :D

[mikeyx]

I like watermelon :P

[I died with my head in a washing machine]

me too ! :)

[I died with my head in a washing machine]

I read about these in an old magazine witch was about 20 years old so its not exactly a new idea :)

[mavr1ck1]

So what. Writer didn't say it was original, just described how to grow it square. Why would you want to tear them down, it makes you look small and weak.

[p88lux]

True.. Disneyland grow their cucumbers in the shape of mickey mouses head.. seen on the travel channel a few months ago..

[I died with my head in a washing machine]

cool :)

[paperclip32]

They had mouse candy apples too,but not grown like this.They just used marshmallows for ears.Still good though.

[madmada]

lol, reminds me of the time 'homer' brought a square watermelon in the episode when they went to japan :)

[Ward_Nox]

you tried it with pumpkins?

[Vladimyr]

There's another really cool Instructable for doing something similar with gourds. Check it out!! http://www.instructables.com/id/Portrait-Gourds-Grown-in-Molds/ Very cool, btw.

[gameboy7oa]

What's next?!?! You should totaly make a oval shaped watermelon!!! It would be one of a kind!

[pyro1324]

or a house shaped!

[Ikedog1995]

you're a genius!!!