Butch Taulton, 72, picked the magic cucumber planter at the Home Depot in Charles Town, West Virginia, this summer. Six of the nine pre-planted cucumber seeds sprouted and all surpassed 30 inches ...

High speed video showing the ejection of seeds by the squirting cucumber, Ecballium elaterium. The video is captured at 10,000 frames per second, slowed down 400 times.

From 300 plants, one can easily harvest about 7,500 kilogramme(kg) by the end of the growing season. A 35kg bag of fresh cucumber, according to Akinfolarin is sold for between N3,500 and N7,000.