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Alaska Man Grows 64.8-Pound Cantaloupe
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A man has done the impossible in any other Alaska summer: growing a record-breaking cantaloupe, a fruit that craves heat and founders in rain. In a season marked by hotter and dryer weather than usual, Scott Robb has produced a 64.8-pound muskmelon - an unofficial world record. He plans to enter the colossal fruit in the Alaska State Fair next week.
Robb, a longtime farmer, owns four world records: a 75.75-pound rutabaga from 1999, a 42.4-pound kale and 43.7-pound kohlrabi from 2001, and last year, a 63.3-pound celery.
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yes, i do. and i also like how it's spelled, and i also like the little round spoons used for making cantaloupe balls�.
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I'm more a fan of honeydew melons myself:
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How do you grow fruit that big? Can I buy some of what he is using for my garden (if I were to have a garden that is).
Do they test the melons at the state fair for banned substances like in the Olympics?
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Same here, or green melons as I call 'em.
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Originally posted by euchomai:
How do you grow fruit that big? Can I buy some of what he is using for my garden (if I were to have a garden that is).
Do they test the melons at the state fair for banned substances like in the Olympics?
It's Alaska... They're summers have like 1 hour of darkness total.
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I cantaloupe...
I'm married.
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These are good, too:
It's a galia melon, and it comes into the world when a bad, bad canteloupe cheats on its wife with a more juicy and delicious honeydew.
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I love good fresh sweet cantaloupe. Honey Dew Melons are nice, but there is just something special; about cantaloupe.
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Originally posted by nate_02:
one of the few fruits i really hate
Me too.
euchomai:
Do they test the melons at the state fair for banned substances like in the Olympics?
Actually, they do. They use metal detectors to make sure you didn't implant something. It's not such an issue with a giant melon, but people have been known to try and cheat with the giant cabbage. You can put a rock or ball of lead in when it's small, and the leaves grow up around it making it invisible.
Here's a photo of the melon:
Doesn't even look like a cantaloupe.
(Courtesy of the Anchorage Daily News)
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What that variety with the section-like indentations (kind of like that big one)? Those are very good, quite sweet.
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