Posted on 10/04/2022 11:20:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A New York grower broke a national record when his giant pumpkin was officially weighed way more than a ton.
Scott Andrusz of Williamsville, brought his massive pumpkin to the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, N.Y., where it tipped the scales at 2,554 pounds.
Andrusz's pumpkin broke the national record for pumpkin weight, which had been 2,528 pounds.
The pumpkin fell short of the Guinness World Record, 2,702 pounds, which was set by Stefano Cutrupi in Italy in 2021.
Andrusz may soon have competition for the title, as Travis Gienger of Anoka, Minn., has a pumpkin grown from a seed from Cutrupi's record-breaking gourd.
Gienger's pumpkin is to be weighed Oct. 10 at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in California.
Ping!................
Anybody check it for lead weights?
Hope it’s not loaded with fishing weights/sarc.
My brother grows those - the pumpkin was almost done and the stem broke off for some reason dashing his hopes of winning the local competition.
Thing is: What do you do with a massive pumpkin like that?
Make a lot of pies?...........................
Toast pumpkin seeds for 1000 people?
Hogs love ‘em.
Deer eat them
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The canned pumpkin that you’ll probably use for pie this season has no wild counterpart today
Beat me to it....”weights in Pumpkins!...get the f...out of here!”
Yea, doesn’t look like a ton.
Enter it into weight competitions. They're no good for anything else.
Check it for lead weights. Or injected concrete. Or just water
Wow...... I tried to grow a giant pumpkin but failed. I just did not have adequate continuous sunlight.
At the time, the record giant pumpkins were in the 900 pound range.
The stems are water pipes several inches in diameter that suck up water and convert it into pumpkin.
A major problem is hauling the pumpkin to the show. At 2,000 # + a big truck is needed and a forklift or crane needed to load it.
That’s a big pumpkin.
Did anyone check for walleye stuffed inside? ;^)
The local produce stand sold thousands of pumpkins for Halloween and always closed for the season the day after. I would go in with my truck and they would give me a dump truck load of all the pumpkins left on the lot. One year I had two dump truck loads.
I would dump the load next to my free range chicken house. (Had about 200 layers) The pumpkins would freeze solid and the chickens would peck at and eat them all winter. Called them chicken pumpkin pops.
The egg yolks were bright orange.
(A trick I learned was to feed the chickens alfalfa hay. That gave them the minerals, balanced their diet, and stopped them from pecking their necks)
How much bigger can pumpkins get?
Gee, and I thought I had big ones last year.
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