The lord among gourds — named Winifred Sanderson after the character from the film “Hocus Pocus” — weighed in at 2,083 pounds when it hit the scale Saturday.
Aurora firefighter Brad Bledsoe stands atop his award-winning pumpkin, Winifred Sanderson, which was recognized as the heaviest pumpkin ever grown in Colorado during a weigh-in at Nick’s Garden Center in Aurora on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. An Aurora firefighter’s prodigious pumpkin was recognized as the heaviest ever grown in the state of Colorado on Saturday, topping the list at more than a ton.
Fire medic Brad Bledsoe said 2024 marks his family’s third year growing competition-sized pumpkins on their property in Fort Collins. “It was my favorite thing to do, was driving with the pumpkin and seeing people’s faces light up,” he said. “You can see the curiosity, like people asking if it’s even real and asking if they can take pictures with it.”
Bledsoe claimed Colorado’s pumpkin record earlier this year with the first of three competition-sized pumpkins, named Mary Sanderson after another of the Sanderson sisters from “Hocus Pocus,” which weighed in at 1,955 pounds.
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