Travis Gienger from Anoka, Minnesota set a new record with his pumpkin and won the Northern California Annual Pumpkin Scale Major Championship. (Photo/AP )
A horticultural teacher in Minnesota, USA planted a huge pumpkin, weighing 2,560 pounds (about 1,161.2 kilograms). It set a record for the heaviest pumpkin in China in the pumpkin weighing competition held before Halloween on the 10th.
AP and CBS (CBS) reported that Travis Gienger from Anoka, Minnesota, set a new record with his pumpkins and won the Northern California annual pumpkin scales championship.
Jinge said: " Minnesota is very good in the middle of this year, but the spring we have over is really hard. So it shouldn't be possible to plant it in Minnesota. It's like winning the championship in the Tour de France with a big wheel. You know, you can only hope, but it succeeded."
Jinge drove for 35 hours and carried his huge pumpkin to the Half Moon Bay south of San Francisco . In the end, the hard work was not in vain. At the 49th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off) set a record.
Jinger also won the same competition championship in Northern California in 2020. The pumpkin he brought today broke the record of 2554 pounds (about 1158.5 kg) that was just set in New York last week.
According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest pumpkin in the world is currently planted by an Italian in 2021. The pumpkin weighs 2702 pounds (about 1225.6 kg).
A American gardening teacher waters the pumpkins he planted in his backyard 10 times a day and fertilizes twice. Finally, he planted a 1,066 kilograms of overlord pumpkin, and won the 2020 Pumpkin World "Super Cup" championship on October 12.
Comprehensive The Associated Press and the Star Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minnesota, reported that the giant pumpkin "Tiger King" planted by Travis Gienger, a 40-year-old gardening teacher in Minnesota, won the 2020 California "Half Moon Bay" pumpkin competition championship with 2,350 pounds (about 1,066 kg). The Half Moon Crested Pumpkin Competition is known as the "Super Cup" in the pumpkin world. The winning pumpkin will receive a $7 bonus per pound. In other words, Ginger will receive a $16,450 bonus.
Travis Ginger is a horticulture professor at Anoka Technical College. He has been growing pumpkins with his father since he was a teenager. In the past six months, due to the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the United States, he spent more time at home. He used his free time to plant pumpkins, watered the "Tiger King" 10 times and fertilized twice a day, and then planted the overlord-level pumpkin.
Jinge said that when the "tiger king" grows the fastest, he can grow 53 pounds (about 24 kilograms) a day. However, before he was about to set off for California to participate in the competition, he did not measure his weight for the "Tiger King" and hoped to give himself some surprise.
He later drove with his friends and transported the "Tiger King" to Half Moon Bay 2,100 miles away. He said he was quite nervous all the way because once the pumpkin bumped into a slight crack, it would cause him to lose the competition. They were the last group of contestants to arrive at the competition site and won the competition in surprise.
However, Jinge's "Tiger King" is still the second-heavy pumpkin in this 47-year-old competition. The 2018 champion pumpkin has more than 2,500 pounds (about 1,134 kg).
Currently the heaviest pumpkin in the world is the champion of the 2016 Giant Pumpkin European Championship, where the Belgian farmers planted more than 2,600 pounds (about 1,179 kg).
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