Giant pumpkin

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... giant pumpkins-

Yeah

... that are boats.

... okay, if you love pumpkins, there is a giant pumpkin fest in Nekoosa.

This is October 3rd and 4th.

So I love this because my dad, for a, a stint, used to grow giant pumpkins.

No way.

well I have to say, I think I'm having a little bit of beginner's luck.

So I've got thing one and thing two.

They are both Atlantic giants.

Ooh, okay.

So I...

Okay.

Well, we'll just show a picture of a big giant pumpkin, a huge board in the place of Jay Richard.

Jay, how goes the grow? I know last year, you know, and this is by the way, when we talk, Jay is both the host, the mastermind behind the whole pumpkin championship thing.

weigh in and also a competitor, right, Jay? And last year, your pumpkins, you weren't quite there.

Oh yeah.

We'll talk about the plan, how we dispense of pumpkins here in Wyoming.

It's the Wyoming state champion, giant pumpkin, way off pumpkin drop.

It's coming up sooner than you think.

So you're going to learn how to do that too.

So a giant pumpkin is is a large squash cultivar atlantic giant and this is in the species curbida maxima given the right genetics and the right growing practices and a lot of luck these pumpkins can weigh in at thousands of pounds the world record is a staggering 2819 pounds during periods of the growing cycle these plants these pumpkins can put on as much as 50 pounds of weight a day You can literally see these things getting bigger.

It's amazing.

There's obviously an art and a science to this elite level of growing.

So you might be thinking to yourself, yeah, that kind of makes sense.

It might be a little frivolous to spend public funds on giant pumpkins, but by the end of the series, we may find ourselves asking not what science can do for the giant pumpkin, but what can the giant pumpkin do for science? I am getting a little ahead of myself because we should probably start from the beginning with what we know about the genetics of these pumpkins and what we know about the seeds.

You can go online right now and buy Atlantic giant pumpkin seeds.

And those are the same species, the same cultivar grown by the record breakers.