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The Bright family
grew
2 world record breaking watermelons in the summer of
2005.
Saturday, September 3rd, 2005, a melon was weighed at 268.8
pounds at the Hope Farm Store. This melon is
registered in Lloyd Bright's name. On Monday,
August 29th, a watermelon grown in the same
field, registered in the names of Pat Bright
Rhodes and Barbara Bright Jones, captured the
world's title for heaviest melon weighing 262.6
pounds. That melon broke the record of a
262 pound watermelon grown by a Tennessee man.
The Bright family set world records in melon
size in 1979 with a 200 pound melon and in 1985
with one that weighed 260 pounds. Lloyd
Bright says the dry summer of 2005 made conditions ideal for growing the huge
watermelons. Visit the Bright Family website
giantwatermelons.com for the history of big melon
growing in Hope.
Click here for more pictures of the world's
largest watermelon! |
Lloyd Bright displays his Guinness
Book of World Records Certificate which declares his 268.8 pound
watermelon grown in 2005 in Hope as the
world's largest. Stop by and see the certificate at Hope's Dos Loco Gringos. |
