Record-setting gourd wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off (1,524 pounds)

Mercury News ^ | 10/8/07 | Media News

[NormsRevenge]

That is, as they say in the business and ol’ pea patch, a BIG ‘UN!

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

That’s a lot of pie....yummmmmmmmm

[Right Wing Assault]

I'm going to enter this big gourd next year.

[Red Badger]

Will they check it for illegal steroids?...............

[NormsRevenge]

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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)

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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)

[ArrogantBustard]

Looks sorta like Hildebeeste’s rump.

[NormsRevenge]

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. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

it almost

[NormsRevenge]

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)

[martin_fierro]

Was driving up 1 to Pacifica yesterday and passed by one of the competitors. It was HUGH!

[Tennessee_Bob]

You can’t be series!

[TriGirl]

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.

[mware]

..but it ain’t round..that is just not right.

[NormsRevenge]

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.. ;-)

[Red Badger]

How does one go about getting it to the contest to be judged?.......

[NormsRevenge]

Hey if you weighed 1500 pounds, you’d have a hard time fighting gravity and look just like it, I reckun. physics is physics.. ;-)

[steve in DC]

Sorry!

Second place at best!

Winner at this year’s Topsfield Fair (north of Boston)1,689 pounds.

[NormsRevenge]

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.. :-}

[MaryFromMichigan]

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.

Sounds like an umbilical gourd.
:)