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New record squash: 796 Harrie Poels 05*.
Weighed 361 kg at weighoff held in Asten, The Netherlands on October 8, 2005.
Previous record: 793 Owen Olsen 05* weighed at Ludwigsburg.

Harrie Poels also holds the Dutch record for pumpkins at 833 lbs (378 kg), grown in 2003. He has grown 6 of the top 10 Dutch pumpkins and squash.

11/1/2005 1:55:40 PM

Netherlands

Rumour has it, the squash was weighed as a pumpkin in Duisburg a week earlier and is not 100% squash.

Owen, as far as I'm concerned your record stands.

11/1/2005 2:12:26 PM

Netherlands

Please look at this link (picture top, right hand) and let me know if you think this is a squash or a pumpkin.
http://www.museumdepeel.nl/pompoen.html

11/1/2005 2:26:02 PM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

pumpkin

11/1/2005 2:27:37 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Pumpkin all the way... A squash is 75% green by most standards

11/1/2005 2:33:32 PM

Follansbee, Wv

Pumpkin

11/1/2005 3:03:01 PM

ENGLAND

After looking again i say most definately a Pumpkin.

11/1/2005 3:23:26 PM

Cologne Brescia Italy

pumpkin

11/1/2005 3:33:26 PM

Belgium Europe

It was grown from a seed of my last years 917 pumpkin.Weighed 363kg or 800lbs in Duisburg were it was classified as a pumpkin according to the wpc rules.
Greetings
Jos.

11/1/2005 3:58:33 PM

Utah

squash

11/1/2005 4:07:30 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

pumpkin

11/1/2005 4:08:42 PM

[email protected]

Pumpkin for sure, But if G grew it, it would have been a Squash

11/1/2005 4:10:31 PM

Long Island,New York

without a doubt pkn.

11/1/2005 4:15:42 PM

Spanish Ontario

pumpkin for sure

11/1/2005 5:55:08 PM

we set guidelines so misunderstandings like this can be settled. following those guidelines, it's a pumpkin.

11/1/2005 6:10:37 PM

Wallingford,CT

pkn

11/1/2005 7:45:12 PM

Antigonish,Nova Scotia,Canada

Pumpkin

11/1/2005 8:09:33 PM

Itzetown City

Squmpkin

11/2/2005 5:33:10 AM

Utah

Brigitte ...
who is "we" and do they control the Asten weigh off ?

11/2/2005 8:28:17 AM

Knopp, Germany

Per the Asten weighoff committee, it is a squash. My hat goes off to Harrie Poels. Job well done.

I do not think that it is a true green squash though.

11/2/2005 8:36:11 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Owen I commend you for giving a hats off to Harrie. I think sometimes these weigh offs do this as to get publicity...As to say we weighed "The Record Squash"Its not a squash...I say take two pictures. Your Squash and a the so called squash. They can clearly see the difference, if not then there is an issue. Pumpkin growers can easily see threw this garbage and we know what is what.

11/2/2005 11:52:21 AM

Netherlands

Asten didn't actually mention that they weighed the European squash and I haven't heard a word about it from Poels either. I think the people at Asten simply don't know the rules. The other pumpkin growers there should have asked them to disqualify the 796 or enter it as a pumpkin (and not enter his second pumpkin).
By the way, Poels won a radio/CD player for the sqaush and a mountain bike for the pumpkin plus a bag or two of compost.

11/2/2005 12:24:37 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

ahhhh the Mud is beginning to clear..He had two pumpkins. One took 1st, the other was declared a squash. Sounds just like what used to happen here in the USA.

11/2/2005 1:01:43 PM

Long Island,New York

Yup, Shanononon is right on. Europe is a bit behind still...in color declarations and I see quite a bit of "I had two so my brother entered one"...I wonder how many are really wieghed on certified scales? Gordon...the rules should be decided by the knowlegable growers.

11/2/2005 4:33:18 PM

[email protected]

At Penfield that would have been ruled a Pumpkin.

11/2/2005 5:17:54 PM

Utah

yes I agree it would be nice if all the rule makers and judges were "knowegable"-- maybe the first question we should ask then on the competency is how to spell knowledgeable
LOL ! ... sorry but I couldn't resist... anyone who has read more than one post of mine knows that they are full or spelling and typo errors.

11/2/2005 5:29:33 PM

Utah

... the only way to end the color controversy is to just have one category- heaviest fruit wins regardless of color. Period ! personally I think that would be a good way to go.
which is a change in my point of view from previous years.

... if you don't want to do that then you'll have to live some controversy every now and then.

Owen you're a good man ! I agree I don't think it is a "true squash" and I'm am impressed with your 793. Congratulations.

11/2/2005 5:43:41 PM