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(3 Oct 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Part must credit Tony Scott

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wappingers Falls, New York - 17 September 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Adithi Ramakrishnan, The Associated Press:
"How did this guy get so big?"
2. Tony Scott looking at his pumpkin
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Scott, pumpkin grower:
"I'm a giant pumpkin grower as a hobby. Right now it's measuring about 1,900 pounds."
4. Various of Adithi Ramakrishnan with the giant pumpkin

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New York - 23 September 2025
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aleca Borsuk, plant scientist at the New York Botanical Garden:
"When growers are making a giant pumpkin, they take off all the other growing pumpkins. So each plant only has one pumpkin that it's funneling all of its sugar water and resources into. And that helps make it extra big."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wappingers Falls, New York - 17 September 2025
6. Aerial of Tony Scott's giant pumpkin
7. Various of Tony Scott's giant pumpkin
8. Adithi Ramakrishnan holding leaf

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New York - 2 October 2025
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Adithi Ramakrishnan, The Associated Press:
"All of these leaves are one single plant funneling to support Tony's giant pumpkin."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wappingers Falls, New York - 17 September 2025
9. Aerial of plant leaves
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Scott, pumpkin grower:
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"The bigger that they get, they get really oddly shaped because of the weight. We wanna keep the skin soft and not harden up and turn orange too quickly."
11. Pan of pumpkin
12. Tight of pumpkin
13. Various of pumpkin patch
14. Tony Scott in his backyard
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Scott, pumpkin grower:
"I've never seen anything grow this fast. It's absolutely unbelievable when you actually are growing this, it still blows my mind that it actually gets a little scary at some point, right? You're like 'wow this thing is really taking off. How far is it going to go?'"
16. Various tight of pumpkins
17. Various of pumpkin getting watered

STORYLINE:
The pumpkin in Tony Scott's backyard weighs almost as much as a small car.

He's been tending to it for months, feeding it fertilizer and covering it with a blanket at night to keep it at a stable temperature. A roll of measuring tape wrapped around the pumpkin gives him a rough estimate of its size.

“I've never seen anything grow this fast,” said Scott, a semiconductor engineer from upstate New York.

Every year, growers like Scott push their pumpkins to the limit. They compete in annual weigh-offs with colossal fruits that are well over 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms). Scott's pumpkin took third place this year, coming in at 1,931 pounds (876 kilograms).

Pumpkins aren't the only crops that can get giant. Other members of the gourd family like squashes, cucumbers and watermelons are capable of a similar feat. But the orange behemoths are especially massive and have earned a place of honor at fall festivals and Halloween fairs.

A giant pumpkin starts off as the perfect seed. Growers choose seeds that have yielded large pumpkins in the past or test new ones. Scott and many other growers rely on the tried-and-true Atlantic Giant pumpkin seeds.

After that, it comes down to the right combination of water, nutrients and care.


As the leafy patch begins to expand, growers remove smaller pumpkins so all the water and nutrients funnel into a single fruit.




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