Huge avocado nearly 15 times heavier than usual sets new Guiness World Record

The giant avocado weighs more than 2kg
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Jacob Jarvis12 October 2019

A family has grown a mammoth avocado which has won a Guinness World Record for being the world's heaviest.

The Pokini family from the island of Maui in Hawaii received the Guinness certificate this week for the avocado.

It weighed in at 2.54 kg, The Maui News reported.

The average avocado weighs about 170g, making this avocado around 14.7 times that size, according to Guinness officials.

It is nearly 15 times the size of a normal avocado (Juliane Pokini via AP)
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The Pokini family's avocado tree is more than 10 years old and 20 feet tall and Mark Pokini planted it when his son was born, using a seed from his brother-in-law's tree on Oahu island, he said.

Mark and Juliane Pokini and their son, Loihi, applied in December for the Guinness recognition.

This involved a tough verification process.

The family in 2018 entered another avocado, but it did not meet all the elements, which required input from a certified horticulturalist, two forms completed by witnesses, a state-certified scale, photographs, video and other documentation.

The family has received the Guiness World Record for the avocado (Juliane Pokini via AP)
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For the second attempt, the family gathered a team and the right tools ahead of time as they watched the growth of what became the record fruit.

They did not water or fertilise the tree, deciding to "kind of just leave it alone", Juliane Pokini said.

"We were excited," Juliane Pokini said. "But at the same time, we were like, finally. It was such a long wait."

The prize avocado was put to good use when the family "made a whole bunch of guacamole" to share with relatives and friends, she said.

Reporting by agencies.

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