Travis Gienger drove the pumpkin for 35 hours to the forty ninth World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off.
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A horticulture trainer from Minnesota set a brand new US report Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after elevating an enormous gourd weighing 2,560 kilos.
Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota, set the brand new report and received an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California.
“Minnesota has an awesome midyear, however our spring in our elements is absolutely, actually powerful. So to do it in Minnesota, it simply shouldn’t occur,” Gienger mentioned. “It’s like successful the Tour de France on an enormous wheel. You realize, you possibly can solely hope, nevertheless it labored.”
Gienger drove the gargantuan gourd for 35 hours to see his laborious work repay on the forty ninth World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
“You assume driving in a snowstorm is dangerous? Attempt driving considered one of these items,” he mentioned.
Gienger, who additionally received the identical contest in Northern California in 2020, broke a report set final week in New York the place a grower raised a large pumpkin weighing 2,554 kilos.
A grower in Italy holds the world report for the heaviest pumpkin. He grew a 2,702-pound squash in 2021, in keeping with Guinness World Information.
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