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A Minnesota horticulture teacher won the world record for heaviest pumpkin at a competition in California.
They named the pumpkin Pohaku – Hawaiian for a stone or rock – and it broke the state record by nearly 200 pounds, coming in second behind the world-record-setting 2,749-pound monster brought ...
Jim Ford's record-setting Atlantic Giant pumpkin won the 2024 River Prairie Ginormous Pumpkin Festival weigh-off in Altoona on Sept. 28. Fond du Lac County man grows 2,551-pound giant pumpkin ...
Rafflesia arnoldii, the world largest flower in Bengkulu - Indonesia. With a flower growing up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in diameter, 3–4 m (10–13 ft) in perimeter and 10–12 kg (22–26 lb) in weight, Rafflesia arnoldii is the world's current largest individual flower. They grow in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo islands of Indonesia.
The first competition giant pumpkins were grown by William Warnock of Ontario, Canada. His first record was 365 lb (166 kg), measured at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In 1900, Warnock's 400 lb (180 kg) pumpkin was exhibited at the Paris World's Fair, and won a bronze medal. He beat his own record four years later, and began to provide advice ...
Dill's Pumpkin Patch in 2004. Howard William Dill (July 11, 1934 – May 20, 2008 [1]) was a Canadian giant pumpkin breeder who patented a pumpkin seed variety called Atlantic Giant. [2] Dill was known as "The Pumpkin King" and "The father of all pumpkins". [2] Dill grew pumpkin varieties for many years in the Annapolis Valley close to Windsor ...
A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o'-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms). Travis ...
In 2011, while attending a display at the New York Botanical Garden, he carved the world's biggest pumpkin to resemble a zombie apocalypse scene. [9] He also carved pumpkins for Heidi Klum's annual Halloween party in Las Vegas in 2011. [10] Villafane participated in the Food Network mini-series Halloween Wars that aired in October 2011. [2]