These are not your regular garden variety pumpkins, these are the "giant pumpkin" breed!!

Photograph by @paradise-found

Mama Bear and I took a drive yesterday, on the way we passed by this huge pumpkin patch. WOW, I thought!! This would make a wonderful post for my Steemit friends to observe!!

Photograph by @paradise-found

So I turned the car around and got out for the photo shoot and video. Knowing it would be hard to tell they are the huge variety, I placed a 16 oz. water bottle next to one near the fence for a photo. This way you have a reference to the size.

Giant Pumpkin Video

video by @paradise-found

Giant Pumpkin facts

A giant pumpkin is an orange fruit of the squash C. maxima strain commonly weighing from 150 pounds to over one ton.

World record giant pumpkins by year

2016 - Mathias Willemijns, 2,624.6 pounds (1,190.5 kg)
2014 - Beni Meier, 2,323.7 lb (1,054.0 kg)
2013 - Tim Mathison, 2,032 lb (922 kg)
2012 - Ron Wallace, 2,009 lb (911 kg)[5]
2011 - Jim and Kelsey Bryson, 1,818.5 lb (824.9 kg)
2010 - Chris Stevens, 1,810.5 lb (821.2 kg)
2009 - Christy Harp, 1,725 lb (782 kg)

Record for Country

Belgium 1,190.5 kilograms (2,625 lb) set 2016, by Mathias Willemijns
Germany 901 kg (1,986 lb) set 2016, by Wuersching
South Africa 506 kg (1,116 lb) set 2016, by Shirley Olivier
Spain 469 kg (1,034 lb) set 2003, by Carlos Perez

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