I'm going to enter this big gourd next year.
Posted on 10/08/2007 1:13:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
The record was shattered today in the Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, with the winning gourd weighing in at 1,524 pounds.
The grower, Thad Starr, takes home the first prize of $9,144 or $6 per pound.
The 40-year-old from Pleasant Hill, Ore., beat more than 70 competitors, including three-time winner Joel Holland, who came in second with a 1,384-pound pumpkin.
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That is, as they say in the business and ol’ pea patch, a BIG ‘UN!
That’s a lot of pie....yummmmmmmmm
I'm going to enter this big gourd next year.
Will they check it for illegal steroids?...............
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Thad Starr from Pleasant Hill, Ore. celebrates after winning the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Weigh-off with a contest record of 1,524 pounds in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. Starr wins six dollars for each pound, which equals $9,144. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
The three heaviest pumpkins are on display at the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. Thad Starr from Pleasant Hill, Ore., wins with a contest record with his 1,524 pound pumpkin. He wins six dollars for each pound, which equals $9,144. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Looks sorta like Hildebeeste’s rump.
I saw a special on some of the folks that grow these babies, they feed them all kinds of stuff, there’s a science to it, ait lmost seems like a dark art. you become consumed with growing them. ;-)
it almost
John Price, 14-months-old, sits on the contest winning pumpkin of 1,524 pounds at the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. Thad Starr from Pleasant Hill, Ore., wins six dollars for each pound, which equals $9,144. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Was driving up 1 to Pacifica yesterday and passed by one of the competitors. It was HUGH!
You can’t be series!
My great-grandparents grew huge pumpkins for the county fair. They made a slit in the vine of the pumpkin and ran a candle wick from the slit to a bowl of buttermilk and “fed” the pumpkin that way. They would grow them 100 pounds or more.
..but it ain’t round..that is just not right.
The biggest we ever grew were nowhere near 100 pounds,, but they sure made good pies and jack’o’lanterns. That’s a good trick with the wick.. ;-)
How does one go about getting it to the contest to be judged?.......
Hey if you weighed 1500 pounds, you’d have a hard time fighting gravity and look just like it, I reckun. physics is physics.. ;-)
Sorry!
Second place at best!
Winner at this year’s Topsfield Fair (north of Boston)1,689 pounds.
They use forklifts and straps handle with care,, they use straps and lifts to move them,, get them on a pallet and forklift them to a big truck and drive very carefully.
Imagine losing one of them puppies on the freeway.. :-}
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