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The heaviest pumpkin passed 1,200 kilograms

A grower in California weighed one at 1,247 kilograms in 2023 Travis Gienger's pumpkin was weighed at the Half Moon Bay contest in October 2023 at 1,247 kilograms, beating his own previous world mark. Contest scales are certified and the fruit must be sound, with no hidden voids or injected water. Pumpkins of that size are grown from specially bred seed and fed with careful irrigation, and the record has been broken repeatedly since 2010. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A grower in California weighed one at 1,247 kilograms in 2023. The figure is taken from Guinness World Records, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.