Friday, November 1, 2013

  Heaviest pumpkin: Tim Mathison breaks Guinness World Record (VIDEO)

NAPA, CA, USA -- A giant pumpkin from the valley broke the Guinness World Records' record during a weigh-off at Morgan Hill in the South Bay; the pumpkin, grown for 105 days in a backyard in east Napa by grower Tim Mathison, tipped the scale at 2,032 pounds at the 23rd annual Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off, hosted by Uesugi Farms,
setting the new world record for the Heaviest pumpkin, according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/ .
Heaviest pumpkin: Tim Mathison breaks Guinness World Record
  Photo: Tim Mathison, from Napa, celebrates setting a new world record with his 2,032 pound pumpkin during the 23rd Annual Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off at Uesugi Farms. Photo: Lora Schraft ( enlarge photo )

The Guinness World Records' record for the heaviest pumpkin weighed 911.27 kg (2,009 lb) when it was presented by Ron Wallace (USA) at the New England Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off at Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, Massachusetts, USA, on 28 September 2012.

  Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the longest line of carved pumpkins numbers 1,301, achieved by Save-On-Foods (Canada) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on 28 October 2013.

  "I was surprised. I didn't think it was going to go that heavy. ... I was very surprised and happy," said Mathison, a lumber salesman who attributed his success in part to this year's mild temperatures.

  "The weather was very good this year."

  For his efforts, Mathison, 56, earned more than $14,220, and an extra $1,500 for breaking the California record — which he set Oct. 5 with another of his pumpkins. Mathison said he may receive a $16,000 bonus if his world record is not surpassed before Nov. 1, The Nappa Valley register reported.


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Heaviest squash: Joel Jarvis (Video)

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Heaviest swede: Ian Neale

Largest Fungus: Tropical Chinese fungus

First all-black petunia: Black Velvet

Largest maple leaf: Eve Steel

Largest puffball: Finley O'Neill

Largest Pumpkin: Chris Stevens

Longest cucumber: Clare Pearce

Smallest Waterlily: Nymphaea thermarum

Most diverse repository of crop seeds: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Biggest Mango: Sergio and Maria Socorro Bodiongan

Oldest Living Palmer's Oak: Jurupa Oak

Tallest Zinnia: Everett Wallace Jr.  and Melody Wagner

Tallest living Christmas tree: Coeur d'Alene

Smallest orchid: Lou Jost

Largest maple leaf: Hailey Nickolson

Most tomatoes grown on a single truss: Graham Tranter

Tallest rose bush: Robert Bendel

Largest pumpkin: Christy Harp

Heaviest gooseberry: Bryan Nellist

Tallest Cactus: SDM College of Dental Sciences

Largest rutabaga: Scott Robb

Largest cabbage: Steve Hubacek 

Longest Cucumber: Yitzhak Yazdanpana

Largest organic cucumber: Segee family

Largest potato: Khalil Semhat

Largest rutabaga: Norm Craven

Most cobs on a maize plant: Mark Wozencroft

Longest cucumber - Alf Cobb

Largest marrow: Ken Dade

Longest Spaghetti Bean: Toni Velardo

Longest water spinach: Li Hui

Largest horizontal wall of flowers: Thompson and Morgan

Tallest Amaranth plant: Jesse Eldrid


Oldest living tree: Swedish spruce


Longest dandelion: Bjorn Magne


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