HALF MOON BAY, California: A horticulture teacher from Minnesota set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o'-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms).

Travis Gienger of Anoka, Minnesota won the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California with an enormous, lumpy, orange pumpkin that could produce at least 687 pies.

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