The record for the world’s largest gourd is back in American hands!
The World Pumpkin Weigh-In Championship takes place Monday near San Francisco. The winner was a 2,749-pound pumpkin grown in Minnesota.
The previous record was for squash from Italy. For 2021, it weighs 2,702 pounds. So this one is 47 pounds heavier.
Here are more details about the largest new pumpkin ever grown. . .
1. His name is “Michael Jordan.” The man who grew up was named after him because the year was 2023. . . Jordan is wearing #23. . . He hopes it could be “the greatest ever.”
2. That grower is 43-year-old Travis Gienger. (GING-grr) He teaches horticulture at Anoka Technical College near Minneapolis and has been growing pumpkins since he was a teenager.I have it too broken Last year, the American pumpkin weighed 2,560 pounds. (This is another photo his. )
3. Benefit is $9 per pound. So he sold it for less than $25,000. This would only earn him about 10 grand, since it cost $15,000 to grow it. But he received an extra £30 for breaking the record. So he made about $40,000.
4. This is the 50th World Championship. The first time was in 1974, when the winning pumpkin weighed just 132 pounds. So this one is 20 times bigger than that one. They had to improve the scales this year to do the weighing.
5. The pumpkin we used to make the jack-o-lantern weighed approximately 10 pounds. So with about 275, you can make at least 687 pumpkin feet.
It also weighs as much as a walrus. . . to the hippopotamus. . . Or a Mazda Miata with two current Michael Jordans inside.
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