Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A California pumpkin grower set a new state record when he entered a 2,175-pound pumpkin into a weigh-off contest.
Leonardo Urena of Napa brought his gargantuan gourd to the annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay and ended up taking the top prize when it tipped the scales at 2,175 pounds.
Officials said the pumpkin marked a new state record -- beating last year's record-setter by 5 pounds -- and was the second pumpkin weighed in California this year to top 2,000 pounds.
The pumpkin fell sort of the world record, a 2,624-pound one grown in 2016.
