![]() Gates for the North Carolina State Fair open Thursday at noon. It’s not just growing in here the patch, it’s getting it to weigh-off,” Huber said. It’s not official until it hits the scale. You can have the world record out here in your patch and lose it. Huber says even if you think you have grown the largest watermelon, it all comes down to getting it to the scale. ![]() It’s all a part of observing and making sure everything is good,” Huber said. Huber says in the right conditions, watermelons can grow up to 8 pounds a day. “It’s hard to be consistent when you get like a hurricane that comes by and it dumps inches of rain on you out of nowhere, you go from drought periods to rain periods and that can be really difficult,” Huber said. Huber created custom watermelon hammocks and huts for his fruit to grow on to protect them from harsh weather. It comes from generations of being some of the biggest watermelons around,” Huber said. Not that it was just big last year, but it has a track history of being giant. You want to get the seed from the biggest watermelon around. He says there are two key ingredients to getting a healthy watermelon to surpass the 100-pound mark. Meet the Yubari King melon, a prized variant of cantaloupe cultivated exclusively in Yubari, Hokkaido. Huber’s current largest melon weighs in at 159.5 pounds. Renowned for its extraordinary sweetness, it’s 35 sweeter than other common melon varieties 20. The Pennsylvania native brought his love for growing massive plants and fruit to North Carolina, where he says the climate is ideal for watermelons. “You tend to have a group of people that grow all sorts of giants,” Huber said. ![]() The winning watermelons will be on display in the N.C.Watermelons can grow up to 8 pounds a day.The great pumpkin, watermelon weigh-off is an annual competition at the N.C. ![]()
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