Glad to see Meatball is still with us

This pumpkin: *"This prison... To hold... ME?"*

The fragrance that’ll come off that when it finally pops open is gonna be legendary

Resin prison would be a kick-ass punk band name

That pumpkin is going to free himself and haunt the world with his cuteness

When pumpkins rot, they liquefy. Made the mistake of leaving one on the dining room table a little too long while waiting to carve it. That's probably where all the liquid is coming from

When the gas pressure gets high enough that thing will become a supernova

It makes it so much funnier how worried they sound about the pumpkin breaking out to get revenge 😂😂

It's probably cracking because it's pressurizing. It's letting out liquid AND off-gassing. Better hope that thing is contained when it decides to pop.

"When will he bust out and escape his eternal resin prision?" and the pumpkin smiling 😭🙏

Its probably undergoing anaerobic decay, which is resulting in pressure build-up. Gasses are trying to escape but they can't, so they're trying to make a way out.

Oh nah that’s his villain origin story 😂

The resin is holding in his power. The day he breaks out is the day the universe crumbles.

"I don't know where the water is coming from" *a literal fruit encased in resin*

Happy peaceful people living life is what I stay entrenched in the fight against the bad guys for.

The smile, like it can smell it, and its just waiting for the day everone else does, too

The pumpkin is decomposing. Fresh flowers do it, too, in resin. If you don't want a blob of brown/black mush you have to dehydrate it first.

The extra water is from the pumkin liquidification. It won't mold cause no germs can get inside, BUT it's still going to age and liquefy.

This is so random i love it

The Great Pumpkin will feast on your souls for imprisoning him. All hail the Great Pumpkin!!!

You cannot contain him He will escape And he will have his revenge All you can do is to delay the inevitable, and pray he will have mercy to be quick

“A couple attempted to preserve a pumpkin in resin for multiple years, this is what happened to their brains”

I once had this pumpkin a while back that lasted for a few years, lost track of it not too long ago, so that’s that

Fun fact, if that resin was basically undegradable then that pumpkin would eventually turn into literally everything but a pumpkin and eventually it will reform into a pumpkin

I love how his face is just :D as he’s on nefarious timing 😂

"trying to escape his resin prison" is also a great way to describe my early 20's

if society ever falls this pumpkin would be really cool in a museum

It is so lovely that plastics are used for silly projects like this, because we don't have any kind of plastic problem yet.

The human desire to entomb things for all eternity never ceases to amaze me.

Drying out the pumpkin is imperative if you want to preserve it. You can try stuffing it with something absorbant/allow air flow to help it keep it's shape. I'd try spraying with 75-99% isopropyl alcohol to help it along. Once the rind is cured, dried, and hardened, you can seal it however you want

This is the cutest looking pumpkin ever❤

"I don't know where water is coming from."😂😂

The pumpkin is still decomposing, so fluids of the pumpkin will built up as bacteria eat it away, causing gas to build up. This building up pressure on the resin, if the pressure is high enough it will crack part of the resin if not all (not likely if it was one solid piece of resin). Since you mentioned the resin block is made from two different pours of resin; this causing two different layers that are connected by the stickiness of the second resin pour, and a crack is forming then the gasses in the block has enough pressure to slowly break apart at the intersection of the two resin layer. Best thing to do is throw it out. The crack can get bigger and cause the gas and fluids to leak out, which will cause a mess and smell very bad that you may vomit smelling the 1 year old decayed pumpkin flesh. Best way to prevent all of this was to freeze the pumpkin entirely to kill most bacteria, then soak it in some type of preservative liquid for about 24-72 hours to make all the cells in the pumpkin be filled with the liquid, then to pour one continuous layer of resin over the pumpkin, leaving all bubbles out. To make sure no air is in there leave the pumpkin top open and get rid of an air bubbles inside the pumpkin, once that is don add the top back on and pour till all of the pumpkin in cover d with idk 2-3 inches of resin on top of it. That could potentially make the pumpkin last for a couple of years if not technically forever in the reain

Be careful. There could be a huge pressure building up on the inside, from the rotting gases.

they captured the spirit of halloween.

The spoopiness cannot be contained…..

The pumpkins retained humidity from the water which was already in it. As it expand pressure builds on the weaker parts of the rind and it can explode or cause a crack.

As the plant cells begin to die and deteriorate, they lose their structure in the water inside of them leaks out. It’s a unnoticeable amount of water when it’s one sell, but when a whole pumpkin is rotting all those cells that die leak their water

That's awesome. I left rocks in a tumbler for a year once just to see what would happen.

it's only a matter of time until the pumpkin king arises...

"This prison, to hold, ME?!"

I imagine gasses are building up in there. Due to the ambient bacteria that would have been present on the pumpkin. I don't think it will explode, but it's not out of the question.

Something about him trying to escape makes me so happy! Worried for you guys, tho ❤️

You are doing so much good for the environment! thank you.

That look on his little face just screams “I WILL BE FWEE!”

You will regret keeping him in your house... Don't let that smile fool you.

Can’t wait to see him this year

FINAL BOSS:PUMPKIN PAL. THE UNCHAINED

You should try freeze-drying the Jack-o-lantern before you put it into resin. It should completely prevent the rotting, but it will be fairly fragile, so be careful when starting the resin process.

Pumpkins do have a lot of water in them. Essentially you guys made a closed ecosystem in resin. The water allows anerobic bacteria to thrive in an environment like that. Neat little science experiment. Just keep it in a sturdy box in case it explodes

A real life magical artifact from Adventure Time

Reminds me of Gojo trapped in the prison realm 😂

"Its only a matter of time before he breaks free" The pumpkin: :D

Be careful of exploding caskets. Decomposing things don't like to be encased

HES ALIVEEEEE!!!! HE LIVESSSS!!!

The bacteria is trying to escape 😂😂😂

"This imprisonment won't last forever, one day I'll get out and nothing will stop me" -the pumpkin king

“This prison to hold ME?” -that pumpkin when it escapes

I’ve watched most of your videos on YT! Love you guys!

Fermentation is amazing

He's getting ready to bust out and take over the world with that cute little smile. 😂❤

He is like the Kirby of pumpkins. He is so cute and jolly but there's either nothing behind that stare or a deep profound darkness.

It’s always the cute ones you have to watch out for. Make no mistake when he escapes he’s coming for your souls.

“I always come back” -The Pumpkin

lol the pumpkin videos have been something to look forward to every year. I’ll be a little sad when it ends but these have been hilarious. Thank you for being as crazy as you are in the best way. Possible of course. 😂❤

Pumpkins are about 90% water, similar to most other gourds or melons

this supports the vampire pumpkin lore

Great, more resin for the environment

"This prison, to hold, ME?" -Sisyphus prime, ultrakill

He actually seems REALLY happy to be in his eternal resin prison.

Ahh... free at last. O Evan, now dawns thy reckoning!

“There’s a big crack in the back of him” Me too dawg. Me too.

It’s pressure. It’s gonna pop out the oven. Pumpkin babies soon.

“Trying to escape his resin prison” is a new fear you’ve unlocked in me

He yearns for freedom. He cannot be contained.

"This prison. To hold. ME?!"

He looks happier than most people

Homie is straight marinating in his own juices😂

That is the smile of a _madman_

It's cracking from the air pressure caused by the decay of the pumpkin which releases natural gases, and the water is also coming fron decay, as it decays it releases its water content when shriveling up and drying out.

"this prison to hold ME?"

"This prison... to hold, ME?!?"

That's a cute little pumpkin face ❤

Great, more stuff to sit in a landfill for thousands of years. Well done y’all.

Pumpkins take in a lot of water, about twice as much more than most plants. So it is the water. Very cute pumpkin, curious to see how it goes!

A rotting piece of something will produce energy and that energy has to go somewhere. It doesn't just disappear, after all. So the resin cracking makes perfect sense.

Definitely fermenting and creating pressure

Definitely doing this with my mom when she passes!!

THIS PRISON TO HOLD …ME?

If he breaks out hes going to wreck havoc, keep him contained at all costs

Make four of them into the South Park characters! That’s what we do to our pumpkins every year!

archaeologists gon have a field day w this one😭

Someone's gotta make this a DnD character *the almighty pumpkin,imprisoned and encased in resin by the great champion (character name here) it is said that one day,he will break free from his prison,and control his pumpkin army to wreak havoc on this land one more.*

Ah, the saga continues 😁🎃

In a million years our descendants will find him.

If you do this again, get a small refrigerator to cure it in, and pull vacuum on the initial pour, which should be a single pour. A long cold cure will effectively prevent most of this.

Since air was introduced it of course had bacteria and yeasts inside and trapped giving it almost perfect enviornment to ferment, as the pumking has water inside, since not visually rotting might end up smelling hardcore like vinegar or even alcohol xD, pumpkins naturally have sugars that can ferment

"There's a big crack in the back of him?" We all have a crack in our back

Aww, he’s gourd-geous!!! 🎃

“These chains cannot contain me forever”