This Record-Breaking Pumpkin Weighs 2,560 Pounds

This is one massive beast. Travis Gienger, a farmer from Minnesota, just broke the North American record for the largest pumpkin. He was crowned champ at the 50th Annual Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival held in Half Moon Bay, California. Travis drove his gourd 35 hours to attend the event, where he was clearly up against some hefty competition. The horticulture teacher also won the prize in 2020. Inside Ediiton Digital has more.

[MsWDWFAN]

What do you do with a pumpkin that large? Is it edible? I think a professional pumpkin carver needs to create a piece of art on that beast! 🎃🧡

[ChakatNightspark]

A pumpkin weighing 1, 226 kg (2, 702 lb 13.9 oz) was grown by Stefano Cutrupi (Italy) from Radda in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy, as ratified by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth. It was weighed at the 10th Campionato della Zuccone pumpkin festival held in Peccioli, Italy, on 26 September 2021.

So 142 pounds under the World Record Pumpkin

[MrHype]

There it is. It’s the great big pumpkin.

[codzilla]

If he's a fisherman on the side, you might want to check inside for lead weights 🎣 LOL.

[LoveHandle]

That pumpkin just captures the overall spirit of Halloween, in pounds.🎃

[Nick-cwog]

They need to check the inside for fillets or weights just to make sure.

[LanesAviationYT]

How many pumpkin pies do you want?

*”Yes”*

[amethystsavage]

Now let’s make it into the largest pumpkin pie 🎃🥧

[mewinthedark]

imagine while it was being loaded on scale it caved out through the bottom🤣😂

[SanFernandoValleyRose]

Wow what a whopper! I love Half-Moon bay it's so beautiful there.

[RenegadeLK]

That's going to make a lot of pumpkin pies.

[cuongtkong]

I see 3 different kinds of pumpkins at 0:35.
From left to right . . . regular pumpkins, giant pumpkin, and human pumpkin.

[nedmacallen]

You have to check that pumpkin for lead weights!!

[ChrisGamingNL]

I was about to make a your mom joke but decided not to do it 😂

[Mscrimsondragon]

How do they keep it from rotting before it gets that big? Mine reach a certain size, and turns to mush...

[HyperionBlueGT]

Very amazing with a great pumpkin that weights 2, 560 pounds. 😲

[amandaperez]

Bro can make enough pumpkin pie to feed all of North America bro

[mythical]

This reminds me of the Mr Bean episode for the Watermelon competition ;D

[JJVPlayz]

iM vEry HuNGry

Hungry Pumpkin hehe

[kaitlynleeanna]

Make sure there’s no weights in that pumpkin 🥴😂