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Look: South African farmers grow world’s heaviest plum – UPI.com
Dean and Deon Barnard earned a Guinness World Record when they harvested a plum weighing more than a pound. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records
“It hasn’t been bred to set records,” Dean Barnard told Guinness World Records. “The record plum came off a commercial tree with about 150 plums on it. I didn’t do any special preparations to get it this big.”
The plum is 3.8 ounces heavier than the previous record-holder, which was grown in Japan in 2021.
“Our area has a lot of very unique microclimates and that helps the plums a lot,” Dean Barnard said. “We do soil samples yearly and then put into the soil what is needed. I also have a top plum specialist to help us with production and quality.”
The Barnards said the plum the largest of a few in the recent harvest to surpass the previous record.
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