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A Minnesota horticulture teacher won the world record for heaviest pumpkin at a competition in California.
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.
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 ...
Rafflesia arnoldii, the world largest flower in Bengkulu - Indonesia. With a flower growing up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in diameter, 3–4 m (10–13 ft) in perimeter and 10–12 kg (22–26 lb) in weight, Rafflesia arnoldii is the world's current largest individual flower. They grow in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo islands of Indonesia.
The gourd weighed 2,560 pounds and netted a Minnesota teacher $23,000.
Billy and Benny McCrary, holders of Guinness World Records's World's Heaviest Twins. Alayna Morgan (1948–2009), heavy woman from Santa Rosa, California. Ricky Naputi (1973–2012), heaviest man from Guam. Carl Thompson (1982–2015), heaviest man in the United Kingdom whose weight at death was 413 kg (911 lb; 65 st 1 lb).
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 ...