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A Minnesota horticulture teacher won the world record for heaviest pumpkin at a competition in California.
The first competition giant pumpkins were grown by William Warnock of Ontario, Canada. His first record was 365 lb (166 kg), measured at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In 1900, Warnock's 400 lb (180 kg) pumpkin was exhibited at the Paris World's Fair, and won a bronze medal. He beat his own record four years later, and began to provide advice ...
The record for the world's heaviest pumpkin, 1,247 kg (2,749 lb), was most recently set in 2023. [ 59 ] A festival called Pumpkin Weeks ( Kurpitsaviikot ) is held every October in Salo, Finland , at which thousands of different-sized pumpkins and carved jack-o'-lanterns are presented to tourists.
The current world record holder for heaviest fruit is a pumpkin weighing 2749 pounds (1.247 tonnes), which was grown by Travis Gienger. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Smallest and lightest fruit
A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o'-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms). Travis ...
A pumpkin named after basketball legend Michael Jordan weighed 2,749 pounds, set a world record and won the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay.
For the first decade of its existence, the Keene Pumpkin Festival regularly set the record for the most lit jack-o'-lanterns, culminating in the figure (as recognized by the Guinness World Records) of 28,952 lit jack-o'-lanterns on October 25, 2003, [10] but this was broken when Boston, Massachusetts, collected 30,128 on October 21, 2006. [11]
A 2,560-pound pumpkin was crowned the heaviest in North America at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California, on Monday, October 10, breaking a previous record ...