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Do you like lemons? How about pomegranates? According to a viral video, home farmers can have it both ways by growing lemon-pomegranate hybrids in their kitchens through simply planting a capsule containing a seed of each fruit into a pot of soil: Although this video is often shared along with comments suggesting that the creation of this lemon-hybrid fruit is on the up-and-up, this video was actually created as a joke by Adrian Kozakiewicz. Kozakiewicz, an author, photographer, and invertebrate breeder who gained some viral fame in 2017 by posting dozens of images of himself with various insects on his face to Instagram, originally shared this video to his YouTube page InsecthausTV in June 2017. That posting was accompanied by various links to his social media profiles as well as the one word caption: Joke :) Kozalkiewicz hasn't provided much information about how (or why) he created this video. However, it's safe to say that this footage was indeed created as a humorous prank and that it does not show the genuine creation of a lemon-pomegranate hybrid. For one, creating a hybrid fruit is a long and complicated process slightly more involved than placing two seeds into a capsule: Furthermore, this isn't the first hybrid fruit video that we've come across. This lemon-pomegranate hybrid fruit video is eerily similar to a banana-kiwi hybrid fruit video shared as an April Fool's Day joke in 2014.
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