date:Feb 20, 2013
A British seed company has purchased a single pumpkin pip that comes from the biggest specimen ever grown after beating off fierce competition from around the world.
Seed supplier Thompson and Morgan paid 170 for the inch-long seed on an online auction, about 400 times higher than what is normally paid by specialist growers for giant pumpkin seeds.
The company are hoping that the seed will produce record breaking pumpkins.
The seed itself is around three times larger than the an average pumpk