A New York man has grown the heaviest pumpkin in United States records.

The massive pumpkin weighed in Saturday at 2,554 lbs. At The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, according to The Buffalo News.

The pumpkin, grown by using Scott Andrusz of Williamsville, broke both the country and national information for heaviest pumpkin, in step with the document.

The kingdom document become formerly set at 2,517 lbs., according to Syracuse.Com.

The national document of 2,528 changed into set via a New Hampshire man in 2018, in line with NBC associate WNBC.

Video of the weigh-in, shared on Facebook by The Great Pumpkin Farm, indicates the big pumpkin putting inside the air as it’s miles assessed.

In the historical past, an announcer can be heard noting the New York kingdom record for a pumpkin is two,517 lbs.

The announcer additionally noted that the first 1,000-lb. Pumpkin became grown and weighed on the competition in 1996.

The Great Pumpkin Farm congratulated the “Andrusz Giants” for his or her accomplishment in a put up on its Facebook page.

The pumpkin’s owner earned $five,500 in winnings on the World Pumpkin Weigh-Off thanks to the file-putting gourd, in step with ABC affiliate WABC.

Andrusz’s pumpkin got here just shy of breaking a global file set with the aid of an Italian farmer in 2021 at 2,702 kilos, consistent with the Guinness Book of World Records.

Go big or gourd home: A 2,554-pound pumpkin grown in New York has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest. A grower in Italy holds the world record for heaviest pumpkin. Guinness World Records reports that specimen weighed in at just over 2,700 pounds.

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The New York pumpkin will stay on display at The Great Pumpkin Farm via Oct. Sixteen, in line with the News and Syracuse.Com.