If there’s a way, nature finds it. So when Donna Porée (@donna9p) locked up her apartment to quarantine with her husband, the sack of potatoes she left behind refused to give up and just rot. No, no… The potatoes had searched for sources of life throughout the whole 3 months of Donna’s absence.
When the woman came back home, she couldn’t believe the progress the vegetables have made. “It’s very surprising but the potatoes have punctured through the joints of my kitchen,” Donna told Bored Panda.
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While cleaning up, Donna decided against eating the potatoes or throwing them away. After all, their tremendous will to live demanded something a little more respectful. “I carefully removed them from my apartment and replanted them in a vegetable patch outside,” Donna explained.
In the process of doing so, there was one more thing that needed to be taken care of. “When I was relocating the potatoes, I couldn’t help myself and measured their sprouts. To my amazement, some were almost 1 meter (3.3 feet) long!”
After seeing Donna’s pics, people started sharing their own photos of accidental potato sprouts.
#1 And Now We Know Where Pringles Come From
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#2 Potatoes Were Hiding In My Pantry. They Look Like Some Sort Of Sea Creature
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#3 This Bag Of Potatoes In My Basement
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#4 A Potato I Found Under My Kitchen Counter Looks Like Some Sort Of Alien Forest
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#5 Sweet Potato Sprouting
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#6 The Microwavable Potatoes I Left Over Winter Break Sprouted
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#7 Apparently If You Rotate A Sprouting Potato Every Few Days, They Get Confused.
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#8 Yesterday I Turned This Potato Upside Down, And Today I Got A Practical Lesson In Gravitropism, The Tendency Of Plants To Alter Their Growth With Respect To Gravity. Bonus: It Turned Into A Lobster
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#9 I Had A Heart Attack
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#10 Won’t Be Photographing Any Mountains Or Foreign Destinations In The Foreseeable Future So I Decided To Take Some Shots Closer To Home
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#11 Box Of Potatoes That Has Been Left Unopened For About A Year
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#12 When You Left Somewhere 5 Months Ago, Come Back And Didn’t Realise You’d Left Some Potatoes In A Cupboard
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#13 I See Your Tomato, And I Offer You A Bucket Of Seedy Potatoes And One Kitty
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#14 This Potato Has Been Growing For 3 Weeks
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#15 Delicate Sweet Potato Sprouts Look Unearthly And Beautiful, Like Martian Coral
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#16 My Dad Found A Horror Potato Sprouting In The Back Of Our Pantry Drawer
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#17 My Potato Is Ripe I Think
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#18 Forgotten Purple Potatoes
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#19 This Sprouted Sweet Potato I Forgot In My Pantry Looks Weirdly Pretty
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#20 This Is What Happens When You Leave A Bag Of Potatoes In A Closet For Almost A Year
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#21 Old Potatoes Planted This Morning
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#22 I Forgot About The Last Of The Potatoes
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#23 Found A Sprouted Potato At Work…
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#24 These Sprouting Potatoes
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#25 My Friend Forgot About A Bag Of Potatoes She Bought Six Months Ago.
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#26 What Happens When You Leave Potatoes In The Cellar For 6 Months
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#27 Left A Sprouting Sweet Potato In My Cupboard For A Little Over A Year. Here Are The Results.
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#28 We Forgot About Our Bag Of Potatoes And They Sprouted…a Lot
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#29 I Found This Sprouted Potato Today, Which Was Hiding In A Cupboard For Along Time. The Roots Tell The Whole Story That The Plant Cant Tell. .seems Like A Familiar Story? Welcome To The Lazy Gardeners Club
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#30 I Started Cleaning Out My Nest. I Began In The Kitchen, Here Are Some Potatoes That I Left In The Cupboard For Almost A Year.
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