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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 ...
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 ...
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 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.
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.
Jim Ford's record-setting Atlantic Giant pumpkin won the 2024 River Prairie Ginormous Pumpkin Festival weigh-off in Altoona on Sept. 28. Fond du Lac County man grows 2,551-pound giant pumpkin ...
1068 Wallace (845 Bobier x 898 Knauss [1]) was an Atlantic Giant pumpkin grown by Ron Wallace in Rhode Island, United States during 2003. [2] The fruit's progeny includes dozens of other pumpkins over 1,000 pounds, including the 1502 Wallace in 2006, [1] at the time the heaviest pumpkin in the world. [3]