My friend, ElJefe, has managed to grow a 360 lb pumpkin this year.

He has been growing these bad boys for a few years, but this one took off and took over, actually, his entire garden. It seriously ate up strawberries and raspberries, and the flowers.

ElJefe was featured in his local paper this morning. Front page and everything. He said he called the paper to find out if there was a contest, they said no, but asked how big his was. Cue reporter and photographer to his house yesterday afternoon.

In order to grow a pumpkin this freaking massive, he started with two seeds online that cost him $14 bucks total. He cut the smaller one when the growth started. He added zinc and iron every 10 days, and The Monster (as he calls it) took in 30-40 gallons of water per week. The pumpkin gained TEN POUNDS a day.

Seriously.

The record in Colorado is 1,011 lbs and the national record is 1,500. And knowing my friend, he will be trying yet again to beat the state record.

He said the photographer (woman) came out to see the pumpkin and said, "Oh my! It's so BIG and HARD!" - and he said, "Let's keep this about the pumpkin, shall we?".

The dork.