it's that time of year again

Big pumpkins, really big pumpkins.

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Is there a limit to how big pumpkins can grow? “I don’t know the answer to that, nor do I think anyone does,” Gienger says. “I would say, in my lifetime, we might see 4,000 pounds.”

Hollender says that research has shown there’s a limit to how big cells can grow, so there must be an upper bound on how big pumpkins can get in the future. “What that limit is, I don’t really know,” she says, “but you’re never going to get a pumpkin as big as a house.”

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