Trinidad: Man harvests monster watermelon weighing 94 pounds in home garden

Trinidad and Tobago: A retired man of Princes Town Shaheed Ali has harvested a rare and huge 94-pound watermelon. This comes just an year after he grew a monster pumpkin in his home garden.

While telling about the watermelon, he said that the Carolina Cross Water melon seeds were sent to him by his friend from Florida and it took a total of 94 days to grow to that size.

He said that he was hopping to get a bigger one with a size of atleast 125 pound. Ali further noted that though edible, this variety of watermelon is just grown for recreation and the largest on record as of now is 350 pounds. The 94-pound fruit is juicy, fibrous but not red inside, it is pink and not as sweet as normal one. He further noted that growing giant crops and varieties not local to Trinidad and Tobago is his passion and he likes to grow strange things, big things with different colours, shapes and sizes. He has also grown black tomatoes and purple sweet pepper, and he believes that his crops thrive because they are showered with love, and this Carolina cross watermelon he has grown is not local.

But with watermelon prices at $9 a pound in some places, Ali said he could easily fetch a whopping $810 for this gigantic fruit but it is not for sale.

During a vacation last year, Ali went to U-Pick farm in Kentucky and found white sweet pepper seeds which he purchased and grew in Trinidad and Tobago for the first time.

It is to be noted that the 66 year old has been gardening as a hobby for the last 16 years through knowledge he got from Youtube and internet.

The huge watermelon has garnered wide spread attention from locals with people visit his home farm to see the majestic fruit he grew on his own.