Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off Held In Vacaville For Nut Tree’s 100th Anniversary

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VACAVILLE (CBS13) — They whitethorn beryllium small, but their pumpkins are giant. Local kids competed successful the elephantine pumpkin weigh-off Saturday successful Vacaville, which was portion of the Nut Tree’s 100th-anniversary celebration.

Sankalp Immadisetty spent 5 months increasing Pumpkio, the elephantine pumpkin, documenting the acquisition connected his YouTube transmission Green Thumb Gardening and adjacent offering Pumpkio words of encouragement.

“You’re going to turn up and beryllium a bully large boy,” helium told Pumpkio.

And it each came down to Saturday’s event: The Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off.

The contention saw pumpkins from crossed the country.

Sankalp took portion successful the Future Farmers of America category.

“I privation to marque immoderate friends, I privation to conscionable different growers similar me, and we tin speech information,” helium said.

Other growers similar 9-year-old Luca Luci introduced america to their pumpkins, including Bob Jr.

“Bob was our archetypal pumpkin, but the time we were going to bring him, helium cracked,” Luca said.

Luca’s ma Melissa Luci says it was a bully acquisition successful shaking things off.

“We’re present conscionable to person fun,” she said.

And that’s not each Luca learned.

“It’s truly large for the children to recognize wherever things travel from, however to turn them, there’s truthful overmuch worth successful that,” Melissa said.

No substance the event’s outcome, Luca and Sankalp said it’s lone the beginning.

“We’re coming backmost adjacent year,” Luca said.

“Sometime successful the future, I anticipation I tin turn a 2,000-pounder,” Sankalp said.

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Sankalp ended up taking archetypal spot successful the Future Farmers category. Pumpkio weighed successful astatine 472 pounds.