Go ahead Cali' toot your horn! It's all good. - PBX Info :: Your Free PBX, PABX and Telephone Information Resource

***John_In_Dakota*** · 10-12-2004, 09:03 AM

Prize Pumpkin Weighs In At 1,229 Pounds

Grower Earns Fourth Pumpkin World Championship

LOS ANGELES -- By any standard, it's a great pumpkin.
A retired Washington state firefighter has produced the winning pumpkin at the 31st annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay.

The pumpkin was grown by 55-year old Joel Holland of Puyallup, Wash. The gargantuan gourd tipped the scales at 1,229 pounds. That's 49 pounds heavier than last year's winner. Its circumference measured 13 feet, 7 inches.

Holland grows pumpkins in his spare time. He won the contest three years in a row, from 1992 through 1994.

A contest spokesman said 80 pumpkins were in the running for the top prize. Eight weighed in at more than 1,000 pounds.

Holland won $5 for each winning pound of pumpkin -- a total of $6,145.

10-12-2004, 09:08 AM

Did this pumkin work out with Barry Bonds in the off-season?

I have a feeling Balco has something to do with this...

slagburn · 10-12-2004, 09:14 AM

That's a lot of pumpkin pie!!!

Should make for one hell of a jackolantern not to mention that you won't have any problems with kids playing smash the pumpkin.

10-12-2004, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slagburn

not to mention that you won't have any problems with kids playing smash the pumpkin.

Unless Gov. Arnold has any "super babies" before Halloween...

Pirates_Ghost · 10-12-2004, 12:25 PM

And the Pumpkin King checks in:

OK>....Things to know about this acomplishment:
1) This "Safeway Grocery" store sponsered event is NOT the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP event, but merely one of MANY Int'l weighoffs for growing the "big uns"
2) 1229 pounds is a nice accomplishment for this guy, it's NOT THE WORLD RECORD! far from it actually...The NEW WORLD RECORD was grown by a Canuck and tips the scales at over 1400 lbs! (Wan the full story? Check out my mates sight at : http://www.pumpkinnook.com/ )
3) Big monsters like this DO make Excelent carvers (provided your talented enough to cut through the up to 3 inchs of shell and not crack the pumpkin)
4) Peppos (the pumpkin is actually a smaller squash, a Peppo are the giants) do NOT make good pie...You can eat them, but they're rather bitter and "chunky", so they're not a very smooth pie filling.

and finally 5)Once again, PumpkinHollow IL was in the running for 3rd in state (my total: 735lb....Still striving for the 1000 lb club)
:P

slagburn · 10-12-2004, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pirates_Ghost

And the Pumpkin King checks in:

OK>....Things to know about this acomplishment:
1) This "Safeway Grocery" store sponsered event is NOT the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP event, but merely one of MANY Int'l weighoffs for growing the "big uns"
2) 1229 pounds is a nice accomplishment for this guy, it's NOT THE WORLD RECORD! far from it actually...The NEW WORLD RECORD was grown by a Canuck and tips the scales at over 1400 lbs! (Wan the full story? Check out my mates sight at : http://www.pumpkinnook.com/ )
3) Big monsters like this DO make Excelent carvers (provided your talented enough to cut through the up to 3 inchs of shell and not crack the pumpkin)
4) Peppos (the pumpkin is actually a smaller squash, a Peppo are the giants) do NOT make good pie...You can eat them, but they're rather bitter and "chunky", so they're not a very smooth pie filling.

and finally 5)Once again, PumpkinHollow IL was in the running for 3rd in state (my total: 735lb....Still striving for the 1000 lb club)
:P

Ummmmmm..... ok..... Of all the places to find a pumpkin expert the Nortel Portal was the last I'd look.

Pirates_Ghost · 10-12-2004, 01:08 PM

well, you've never noticed my email or other info on me, that's all

Been growing them for 4years now.

10-12-2004, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pirates_Ghost

And the Pumpkin King checks in:

OK>....Things to know about this acomplishment:
1) This "Safeway Grocery" store sponsered event is NOT the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP event, but merely one of MANY Int'l weighoffs for growing the "big uns"
2) 1229 pounds is a nice accomplishment for this guy, it's NOT THE WORLD RECORD! far from it actually...The NEW WORLD RECORD was grown by a Canuck and tips the scales at over 1400 lbs! (Wan the full story? Check out my mates sight at : http://www.pumpkinnook.com/ )

Hey!

That World Record Pumkin was just a mere 20 minutes drive from me in Port Elgin Ontario at Pumpinfest (http://www.pumpkinfest.org/).

Here a picture. Please note the my employer (Bruce Power) is a prominent sponsor of the event [see either side of the prize pumpkin]! Do you think the radiation makes 'em grow bigger? :wink:

PG, send me $1000 and I will send you 50 of the special radiation-mutated seeds so that you too can grow a 1000+ pumkin! :wink: I'll get them fresh from containment for you!

SD

***papa-bear*** · 10-12-2004, 02:10 PM

I managed to get flowers on my pumpkin plants this year but no fruit

Maybe that is a record for the smallest one...

Pirates_Ghost · 10-12-2004, 02:11 PM

Thanks, SD, but I think I'll wait for this bloke to put his seeds out for sale (upwards of $10 US per seed, and there are MILLIONS in a pumpkin that size)...
I prefer my pumpkins to be NATRUALLY genetically modified...
Although, wonder if you radiated a "Luminos" (those are the white fleshed peppos) or an "Aussie Blue" (yes...they ARE blue...) would they glow in the dark?
Could be a new breed of jack-o-lantern

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes	Rate This Thread
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode	Rate This Thread:

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Deep Thoughts	SD_WILSON	Off Topic - Humor/Jokes	4	06-26-2003 09:42 AM

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)