The Biggest Fruit & Vegetables Ever Created

when it comes to food shopping we often tend to scavenge for the biggest fruit or vegetable to take home with us but there are some out there that would require a forklift and a small team to take home instead of our own hands here are ten of the biggest fruits and vegetables ever number 10 melon it's no secret that melons can grow pretty big with the average weight of a watermelon being around 20 pounds however the heaviest ever recorded was a staggering 350 pounds this world breaking watermelon belonged to Chris Kent who grew the Beast in Tennessee Chris presented his watermelon at the operation pumpkin festival held in Hamilton Ohio back in 2013 winning first prize Chris stated that watermelons grow good in the south and that he loved growing ever since he was a kid watermelons usually need a minimum of six hours of Sun and a lot of open ground as their vines spread out quickly surprisingly the fruit doesn't need too much water farmers only usually water the plants every three days if the optimal conditions are met the heaviest these delicious fruits can grow could be as huge as 70 pounds number nine lemons they say when life gives you lemons make lemonade and the bigger the lemonade the more lemonade there is to drink which may make it a challenge there are lemons out there big enough to fill several jugs instead of one glass the heaviest lemon ever recorded weighed a whopping 11 pounds it was grown in Israel by farmer Aaron sham oil back in 2003 the lemons circumference was 74 by 35 centimeters or 29 by thirteen point seven inches making it higher and bigger than most people's heads Israel is situated between 29 to 33 degrees north of the Equator which characterizes the region as subtropical or similar to the Mediterranean climate with hot and dry summers and cool rainy winters this climate is perfect for growing citrus fruits which flourish in these conditions as especially since they need at least five hours of Sun a day if lemonade isn't your thing then you might be interested instead in the largest orange in the world largest by circumference to be exact grown in the nourishing garden of Patrick and Joanne Fiedler in Fresno California in 2006 this outstanding orange had a circumference that measured 63 point five centimeters or 25 inches around its widest point and looked like the size of a boulder the last time it snowed in Fresno was way back in 1998 with only half an inch of snow so it's not surprising that citrus fruits can grow to great lengths they're number eight leeks leeks are typically long and thick so you'd expect them to reach a great size but nothing can prepare you for this particular one Paul Rochester who has been growing leeks in the UK for over 19 years produced a leek Wang 21 pounds making it the world's heaviest the leek enthusiast uses a combination of techniques to grow the world's mightiest leaves including supplementary lighting for eight hours a day for one month and watering the plants twice a week for only 10 minutes as the season progresses and the plants grow Paul then limits watering the leeks to only 5 minutes once a week that's some serious dedication but then that's probably why he's able to grow the world's largest leeks Paul also recommends growing them inside so they can avoid the elements and thus grow even more superior leeks are a very versatile vegetable that grow in places with a cooler climate and have a high tolerance to a wide range of soil types number seven onions this 18 pound onion is so big that if you were to risk cutting into it then your whole city will be brought to tears professional gardener Peter Glazebrook has been growing oversized vegetables for years having successfully cultivated the record-breaking onion after trying for 25 years Peter loves to admire all of his record-breaking Giants and he should be proud he normally wins at every Agricultural Show he participates in Peter even has his own Wikipedia page so you know he's a big deal in the competitive world of growing oversized vegetables Peter uses the same seeds from his largest onions and plants them an early winter to late spring when they can absorb as much Sun before harvesting in the late summer onions tend to grow well in cool weather in the early part of their growth and that they form bulbs as the weather warms peter also recommends always watering the plants in the morning on sunny days but not if it's cool or gray outside number six a monster marrow marrows are famous for being really big but how about one weighing the same size as a baby hippo amateur gardener philip valves brew a mammoth marrow weighing 150 pounds measuring 5 foot long in only six weeks philip has accustomed to growing big vegetables having produced the world's largest cucumber previously before Philip doesn't seem to know himself how he manages to grow great giants but he thinks it might be down to selecting the best C's in his allotment and a bit of luck keep in mind that Philip doesn't use fancy lights fans or heating like his competitors making him quite impressive even though he's modest about a success marah's come from the same family as courgettes in other words if you left a courgette to grow you would end with a marrow though you can't eat the skin or seeds of Amero marrows are fairly easy to grow from seeds but do need a sheltered position in full Sun and fertile soil that holds plenty of moisture these plans also need plenty of room as they spread when they grow number 5 can you believe this cabbage this is most likely everyone's favorite vegetable on the list especially if you happen to be a rabbit this world breaking cabbage looks like something from outer space due to its incredible size weighing in at 132 pounds and presented at the Alaska State Fair in 2012 this ginormous green cabbage was cultivated by Scott a Rob Scott has previously produced other world records in the past such as the world's heaviest turnip amongst other things a cow ages average weight is around 2 pounds so the very big question is how did he do it well the most important thing is using giant cabbage seeds and then placing them somewhere where they get a lot of direct Sun cabbages are best suited for either spring or fall season as they rely on a lot of moisture to grow a good head number for not so sweet potato despite its name the sweet potato isn't actually a potato and is more related to the flowering climber plant Morning Glory unlike potatoes sweet potatoes are grown from long shoots known as slips and not from roots the heaviest ever grown was by Manuel Perez from Spain who produced the world's heaviest sweet potato weighing in at 81 pounds back in 2004 sweet potatoes are thought to have come from both Central America and South America the domestication of the vegetable is thought to have taken place 5,000 years ago in Central America and remnants of the Peruvian sweet potato date as far back as 8,000 BC growing sweet potatoes involves warmer climates but many have recently become cultivated to tolerable colder conditions number 3 beetroot carrot and parsnip can you guess what these 3 super-sized vegetables have in common they were all grown by the same person British granddad Joe Atherton has managed to grow a 23 foot 7 inch or seven-point 21 meter long beetroot and a 20 foot 4 inch or 6.2 me long parsnip and a 19 foot 2 inch or 5 point seven meter long carrot all within his home aside from using a special fertilizer mix that's surprisingly not magical unicorn manure Joe you ttle eise's 21 feet long plastic tubes to grow his long vegetables the tubes are filled with compass and positioned at a 45 degree angle to assist in drainage the tubes also have 10 inch slots as watering holes so when the plants are watered from the top of the tube the water holes helpful water travel all the way down Joe used to competitively grow vegetables with his dad so he has a lot of experience in the extreme sport of growing huge vegetables number 2 bananas if you're extremely lucky you might find more than 10 a bunch so imagine finding 473 in one bunch Spanish farmer manuel cabana managed to grow the largest bunch of bananas in the world on the island of el hero canary islands back in 2001 the big banana bunch weighed at 287 pounds and was harvested on a remote farm that's been devoted to growing bananas for over 30 years while that bunch is impressive it's surprisingly not top banana the rhino horn plantain is a hybrid banana cultivar which originated from Africa that's up to 2 feet or 60 centimetres long and these bad boys can grow to 12 to 14 inches on average the jumbo specimen can be eaten either raw or fried though sometimes they're just grown as a tract of pieces number one a powerful pumpkin if you were to guess what would be the number one biggest fruit or vegetable on this list you and most likely guess pumpkin pumpkins are infamous for growing - gargantuan sizes especially around Halloween time when they get carved into jack-o'-lanterns however the world's biggest pumpkin could easily be carved into a haunted house American farmer Ron Wallace specializes in growing giant pumpkins even winning 4 World Championships his powerful pumpkins can weigh as much as 2,000 230 pounds or even more Ron gives amateur farmers the opportunity to grow these gigantic pumpkins by selling their seeds with one seed costing $100 growing giant pumpkins is serious business especially a giant pumpkin competitions yes that's a thing you now know but how is such an incredible thing achieved the majority of price winning pumpkins originate from Howard Hills Atlantic giant species dill spend 30 years cultivating pumpkins and in 1981 set the world record with a 493 pound monster he then patented the seeds an international growers flocked in to buy them the wait record for giant pumpkins has since quadrupled for the last 37 years years of intensive selective breeding combined with the perfect temperature and some TLC has resulted in the production of the biggest pumpkins in the world a perfectly uniform pumpkin theoretically has the potential to grow to a whopping twenty thousand pounds without cracking or splitting apart while genetics play a vital role in the production of these mammoths some growers also utilize mycorrhizal fungi which colonizes the plant's roots to give water and nutrients in exchange for carbohydrates allowing the plant to store more water and thus get bigger is there anything on the list that you could grow even bigger what did you find the most surprising let me know in the comments down below thanks for watching [Music]

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Length: 11min 54sec (714 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 25 2018