r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Ambrouse • 2d ago

of a pumpkin harvested in Portugal

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860kg, more than 400L of water daily!

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u/DefinitionBig4671 2d ago

We call that 3rd or 4th Place in the US.

Still, that's stoopid big.

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u/Mashinito 2d ago

The 1st place is always taken by yo mamma!

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u/No_Ice_3651 2d ago

How big do they get lol

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u/ItsNotThatBad72 1d ago edited 23h ago

My hometown in Maine used to have a pumpkin festival in which one of the events was carving out giant pumpkins to use them as boats to race across the pond.

Just found out they're doing again for the first time since covid.

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u/No_Ice_3651 1d ago

Wow and they actually floated?

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u/ItsNotThatBad72 23h ago

Not very well with a person in them. They sit low in the water and are VERY tippy, but that were the challenge comes from.

It's the best part of the festival since they had to stop doing the pumpkin drop. Too many concussions and broken windows from 100mph chucks of pumpkin skipping over the water.

Only video I could find off it. There's a floating target in the middle of the pond.

https://youtu.be/iuocPfqA8kU?is=mgHI6_MuTsFRQvPW

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u/CharmingEgg3706 1d ago

As a dutch person who has never been to the USA. Wasnt the Damariscotta last weekend? so Main has an event with pumpkings where they make boats out of them.

And Seabuiscuit won the prettiest pumpkin! IYKYK

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u/DefinitionBig4671 2d ago edited 2d ago

Giant Pumpkin Records in the World - Country, State, & Province - 2026 - Professional Gardening Tips

looks like (for 2026) 2,749 from Minnesota.

Which means I need to amend my statement and say that it doesn't even make the top ten.

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u/layz2021 2d ago

More than 2 tons and a half?! :o

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u/alexbb99 2d ago

The 2749 is in merica units

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u/DefinitionBig4671 1d ago

They grow em big around here.

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u/No_Ice_3651 1d ago

WHAT???

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u/_-inside-_ 14h ago

A pound and a kilo are different things

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u/DefinitionBig4671 14h ago

I know 860 kg is only 1892 pounds. These monsters weigh in at 2,749 pounds or 1246.93 kilos.

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u/TheoryKey343 2d ago

That pie is gonna be divine

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u/zezinandoreinando 1d ago

Nah here is for jam or soup

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u/GallaeciCastrejo 2d ago

My grandmothers planted pumpkins in the worst field we had just to feed the pigs. That's what they are good for. This and carving.

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u/Miserable-Ad-8414 2d ago

Just in time for Halloween

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u/heliumlikethegas 1d ago

We don't do that

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u/User_Name_Tracks 2d ago

Need fkatbed pickup for scale. Oh.

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u/Thunderbundon 2d ago

What do they do with these large pumpkins after the contest?

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u/Resident_Voice5738 2d ago

Livestock feed, usually these big vegetable don't have much flavour.

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u/A4t1musD4ag0n 2d ago

It reminds me of someone.

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u/2Wieners_1Bun 2d ago

That pumpkin is as thirsty as a mini data center

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u/According_Tea_6329 1d ago

Apparently this thing needed over 100 gallons of water a day. That's potentially 10,000+ gallons over a growing season. Crazy how much water it takes to grow one giant pumpkin.

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u/Double-Jump-Lover 1d ago

That is not a Pumpkin, that is a Pumpking.

https://giphy.com/gifs/h03jRfPhn1n7Qijkr7

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u/Earthling1a 1d ago

Portumpkin

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u/Competitive_Bath_632 14h ago

Feira de esmolfe?