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Australia

Since I know you Northern Hemisphere growers will be getting bored during your winter, I will have a few competitions during the next few months to hopefully stop some of that boredom.
So here is the first contest. Guess the weight of the marrow, new pics in my diary.
Rules
The contest will end once the marrow is officially weighed and pic is in my diary. Will be this week.
The winner is the closest guess without going over.
The marrow will be weighed in kg and converted to lbs, so guesses will be in lbs.
Only one guess per person.

The winner will be sent seeds out of all my biggest veggies grown this Season and/or new Australian record veggies. Plus my best pumpkin crosses made 2013-14. ( If they have seeds ) Also a couple of seeds out of the biggest pumpkin grown in Australia 2013/2014. Plus a few other nice seeds from my collection.
Tip the current Australian marrow record is 46.4 lbs.

11/17/2013 8:07:04 AM

Valencia Spain

51.5 pounds

11/17/2013 9:58:12 AM

Hot West Tennessee

44.7 lbs

11/17/2013 10:22:38 AM

Germany

58.5 lbs

11/17/2013 10:44:52 AM

Austin MN

45 pounds

11/17/2013 11:06:48 AM

Sourthern Utah

73.5 lbs

11/17/2013 11:21:42 AM

Minnesota

56 pounds

11/17/2013 11:41:35 AM

Honesdale Pa USA

60 lbs

11/17/2013 11:42:40 AM

Pinetops,n.c.

53 lbs

11/17/2013 12:16:31 PM

British Columbia, Canada

61.5 lbs

11/17/2013 12:27:59 PM

El Paso TX.

42 pounds

11/17/2013 12:35:16 PM

Germany

67.5lbs

11/17/2013 12:43:00 PM

Ely Mn

48.9

11/17/2013 12:43:27 PM

Ely Mn

48.5 i meant...sry

11/17/2013 12:44:58 PM

Parker, Co

57 lbs

11/17/2013 12:47:11 PM

Ireland

72.5lbs

11/17/2013 1:08:23 PM

Tennessee

49 lbs

11/17/2013 1:22:44 PM

Linden, Mi.,

47.2

11/17/2013 1:25:48 PM

Western NY

54 lbs

11/17/2013 1:52:12 PM

Leerdam, The Netherlands

50 lbs ( go get that record!!)

11/17/2013 1:53:57 PM

Colorado

55.5lbs

11/17/2013 2:05:02 PM

Bottom of ohio

64 lbs

11/17/2013 2:12:05 PM

New Zealand

63 pounds

11/17/2013 2:22:59 PM

Lodi, California

Where's your diary?

11/17/2013 2:44:37 PM

NSW, Australia ([email protected])

52.5 pounds. Will give you a ring soon Phillip, need to catch up a bit!

Cheers and God bless,
Ben

11/17/2013 2:45:51 PM

Lodi, California

Oops, looked under the wrong username. 65 lbs.

11/17/2013 2:48:29 PM

Muddy Waters

55 lbs

11/17/2013 3:08:53 PM

El Paso TX.

What's with the .2, .5 ,.7, etc. guesses when in the OP he says it is the weight in pounds not tenths of pounds are those guesses gonna count when the result is rounded to the nearest pound as stated in the OP ??

11/17/2013 3:20:14 PM

Germany

JDFan, he also mentioned that it will be weighed in kilograms, but that does not exclude that the scales could show an additional decimal place.

Another attempt of an explanation: AG weights in the GPC lists are reported in pounds (and therefore you read weights such as 955.5 lbs) and that is fine. If weights were reported in tenths of pounds, the same weight would read 9555 * 1/10 lbs.

pipster did not mention any rounding to full pounds.

11/17/2013 3:30:56 PM

Germany

58 lbs

11/17/2013 3:32:36 PM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

62 lbs

11/17/2013 3:40:18 PM

Bloomington Indiana

53.4lbs

11/17/2013 3:49:10 PM

El Paso TX.

@pumpking -- Yes but he did say "so guesses will be in lbs." not tenths of pounds so was just wondering if all guesses were supposed to be in pounds also ? Would hate to see someone guess in pounds as asked for and lose to someone that posted a guess in tenths of pounds - so was just looking for a clarification (ie. if there is a guess of say 50 and another of 50.5 and the weight is 50.5 which wins since the OP asked that "guesses will be in lbs.") Was just wanting to avoid any confusion when the winner is announced !

11/17/2013 3:52:30 PM

Littleton, Colorado

61 lbs

11/17/2013 3:59:51 PM

50.5 lbs.

11/17/2013 4:10:42 PM

Karns City PA

41 lbs.

11/17/2013 5:01:03 PM

virginia

67

11/17/2013 5:31:39 PM

churchville, ny

66.2 lbs

11/17/2013 5:55:19 PM

50 Acres

49.8 lbs looks good to me.

11/17/2013 6:24:52 PM

Pei Springvale

42.5 lbs

11/17/2013 6:28:13 PM

East Jordan, MI

43 lbs

11/17/2013 6:39:56 PM

West Virginia

52lbs

11/17/2013 7:25:41 PM

Sort of Sunny Sometimes, WA

53.5 lbs

11/17/2013 8:21:23 PM

(rocky) Bonney Lake Wa.

79.5
lbs

11/17/2013 8:32:48 PM

Brockway Pa.

40 lbs

11/17/2013 8:42:49 PM

Petersburg, Mi

62.1 lbs

11/17/2013 10:22:26 PM

west central IN/East central IL

85lbs

11/17/2013 10:54:42 PM

Buffalo, MN ([email protected])

35 lbs

11/17/2013 11:22:53 PM

Hamilton Nj

68 pounds

11/17/2013 11:23:18 PM

Australia

Sorry for the confusion, guesses can be (example 40.6 lb ). I forgot to add that to the rules, but assumed guesses would be in tenths of lbs. Thanks JDFan for pointing it out. The winner will be the closest to tenths of lbs without going over. (Eg 40.6 )but if the final weight is 40.9 lbs and somebody has guessed 40 lbs and another guess 40.6 I will give both people a prize.

11/18/2013 12:15:03 AM

Deerfield, Michigan

68.6 lbs

11/18/2013 12:53:03 AM

Central Illinois

ive never understood why people dont add the link to their diary to the post

11/18/2013 8:27:03 AM

El Paso TX.

"ive never understood why people dont add the link to their diary to the post"

Only takes a few seconds to find it and they are offering something that is worth the small amount of effort to find !! But if you really need a link then here you go : http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2013&grower=36196&action=L

11/18/2013 9:37:34 AM

Germany

Dear baitman, in addition to what JDFan had pointed out (and which also reflects my opinion on such fun things), another reason is that pipster had loaded some new pics of the marrow into his diary, which just hadn´t been up at the time he opened the "guess the weight contest" and I am sure he wanted people to check out the latest pics of the marrow rather than pointing at a too preliminary pic. Also, I´m pretty sure that pipster doesn´t have the time for posting pics and message board entries every day, and because of the short time left until marrow picking he most likely wanted to open the "guess the weight contest" better sooner than later.

11/18/2013 9:49:00 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

57.5 poundZ

11/18/2013 9:49:57 AM

bliss,n.y.- heart of Wyoming County

65.78

11/18/2013 10:09:07 AM

Glosta

38#

11/18/2013 3:14:40 PM

Eurasia

54.3

11/19/2013 6:29:27 AM

Nottingham, UK

74 lbs

11/19/2013 4:37:49 PM

Western ny

47.1

11/19/2013 5:52:01 PM

Enumclaw, Wa

43.1

11/19/2013 6:21:33 PM

stoughton WI

56.3 lbs

11/19/2013 9:15:34 PM

Ct

42.8 lbs (on the blind:))

11/19/2013 10:32:57 PM

Mi.

70 lbs

11/19/2013 11:19:17 PM

Winston Salem, NC

47.5

11/20/2013 10:35:23 AM

New Richmond Wi

39 - Lorelee

11/21/2013 7:14:36 PM

N.c.

46.6

11/21/2013 9:57:09 PM

Australia

I finally got the marrow weighed tonight, it weighed 27.2 kg or 59.9 lbs.
So the winner is Pumpking was the closest with 58.5, and 2nd was Wildone. Wildone can you please e mail me at [email protected]

11/22/2013 9:37:22 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Nice Job Pipster!

11/22/2013 9:41:45 AM

Linden, Mi.,

What about Dyberry Patch @ 60 lbs. ?

11/22/2013 4:29:34 PM

NSW, Australia ([email protected])

Awesome effort Phil! I'm going to have to try extra hard this year now ;)

11/22/2013 4:51:00 PM

East Jordan, MI

4th sentence of first post in thread tallcorn, "...The winner is the closest guess without going over."

11/22/2013 8:11:09 PM

Germany

The scales did show 27.2 kg (one decimal place), and that means the weight was in between 27.151 and 27.249 kg so that rounding made the scales show 27.2 kg. Hence, we cannot exclude that the marrow could have been as heavy as 60 lbs, because 60 lbs is 27.22 kg and thus within this range of rounding and for a 60 lbs marrow the scales must have shown 27.2 kg.
tallcorn, thank you for pointing that out. I´ll get in touch with pipster and we´ll see what we can do ;-)

11/23/2013 8:57:30 AM

Honesdale Pa USA

Just checked on this post, no big deal unless there was a 1725 or 1495 etc...in the collection! lol. Keep me posted.

11/23/2013 5:40:54 PM