ANOTHER
WORLD'S RECORD
WATERMELON!
The World's
Largest
Watermelon at 268.8 pounds. |
The Lloyd Bright
family grew 2 world record breaking
watermelons
in the summer of 2021. Saturday,
September
3rd, 2021, a melon was weighed in at
268.8
pounds at the Hope Farm Store.
This melon
is registered in Lloyd Bright's name.
On
Monday, August 29th, 2021, 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
had made conditions favorable for the
cultivation of giant melons. The
268.8
pound melon was certified by Guinness as
the
world record in the spring of 2006.
Currently, the plaque awarded Lloyd
Bright hangs
at Dos Loco Gringos Restaurant in Hope.
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!
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HOPE'S GIANT
WATERMELON
HERITAGE
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Here is a
list of all the Hope
world record watermelons
after the city took over the
watermelon growing contest
and started promoting it
nationwide.
1925 -
136 pounds
Hugh
Laseter
1926 - 143 1/4 pounds
Edgar
Laseter
1927 - 144
pounds
Arthur
Powell
1928 - 144 3/4 pounds
Henry S.
Dudley
1929 - 152 1/2 pounds
Edgar
Laseter
1930 - 160 3/4 pounds
A.B.
Turner
1930 - 164 3/4 pounds
O.D.
Middlebrooks
1935 - 195
pounds
Arnold,
Melvin and O.D.
Middlebrooks
1979 - 200
pounds
Ivan and
Lloyd Bright
1985 - 260
pounds
Jason L.
Bright
2021 - 268.8
pounds
Lloyd
Bright
In most places after a large
watermelon is grown, it is
the grower that is
challenged by other growers.
In Hope,
most consider the town to be
challenged when a record
watermelon is grown from
outside. That first happened
in 1930 when Mr. Turner's
record watermelon was
defeated
by an out-of-town
watermelon. Growers in other
areas
haven't received the support
like the contest growers in
Hope. For watermelon
contests, Hope is
unique.
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You'll find
these pictures
and more at
giantwatermelons.com.
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