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2,560-pound pumpkin wins California contest; sets record
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Travis Gienger from Anoka, Minn., stands behind his profitable pumpkin on the forty ninth World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. AP Picture/Haven Daley)
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. – A horticulture trainer from Minnesota set a brand new U.S. document Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after elevating a large gourd weighing 2,560 kilos.
Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota set the brand new document and received an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California.
Gienger drove the gargantuan gourd for 35 hours to see his arduous work repay on the forty ninth World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
Gienger, who additionally received the identical contest in Northern California in 2020, broke a document set final week in New York the place a grower raised an enormous pumpkin weighing 2,554 kilos.
A grower in Italy holds the world document for the heaviest pumpkin. He grew a 2,702-pound squash in 2021, based on Guinness World Information.
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