The Fat Boys Were Thirsty

Wow!  Look how much they consumed in 14 hours.  I should have stuck the vines deeper in the bottles.

All entries arrived at the weigh-off site at about 6 pm the night before the event. All pumpkins had gallon water bottles attached to their vines. When we arrived on Saturday morning (at about 7:30 am) the pumpkins had inhaled about one gallon of water each. It probably would have been more, but they stopped when the vines couldn't reach the water in the bottom of the bottles.

Temperatures in Scottsdale were 105 on Friday and 107 on Saturday.  Humidity was between 5 to 7 percent.