<blockquote><b>World's longest cucumber record broken by Polish grower</b><br><br>Amateur gardener Sebastian Suski is the proud new owner of the world's longest cucumber - a specimen of Cucumis sativus that until this week was growing in a polytunnel at his allotment.<br><br>Despite the blisteringly hot summer in the UK, Sebastian - who was born in Poland but now lives in Southampton - was able to tend to his impressive patch of cucumbers and produce a whopper measuring 113.4 cm (3 ft 8.6 in), beating the previous record by 6.4 cm (2.5 in).<br><br>Sebastian has been growing big fruit and veg with the help of his wife Renata for seven years.<br><br>He volunteers for the European Giant Vegetable Growers Association (EGVGA) - a support group for fans of garden giants - and now is an international officer for the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth (GPC).<br><br>He has even set a few national records in his time as a grower, but that elusive world record had been denied to him... until now!<br><br>"I'd grown big cucumbers but never quite long enough to beat the existing Guinness World Records title holder," said Sebastian.<br><br>"Growing super-long cucumbers is a risky business," he continues. "If you cut too soon, you're not going to have a record-breaker, but if you leave it too long, you get into the danger zone. You risk your cucumber rotting as it grows - you don't want it exploding on you!"<br><br>Sebastian cut his king-sized cucumber at just the right time, and although it's starting to turn yellow, it's still intact, and will be for about 10 to 12 days more.<br><br>He almost lost out on the chance to be a record holder, however, when he was hospitalized at a crucial point in his cucumber's growth.<br><br>"Doctor found a leaking blood vessel in in my head and so I spent a week in hospital. But luckily my wife Renata was on hand to care for the cucumber and keep her well-watered and nourished. Without Renata, I wouldn't have this record."<br><br>And yes, Sebastian refers to his cucumber as a "she"! "They're one of the family, really, like babies that need a lot of love and attention."<br><br>He and Renata have four children, and the whole family seems to welcome these vegetal siblings into their lives.<br><br>Sebastian is a passionate gardener in his spare time, when he's not packing and shipping contact lenses for a living. Intriguingly, he's also curious about the pedigree of his seeds, and traced the history of the seed that bore his record-breaking cucumber.<br><br>"I've tracked the seed back 15 years to record-breaking specimens from the UK to Germany to Poland and back to the UK again," he explains, before name-dropping some of the most celebrated growers in the giant-vegetable community.<br><br>"These seeds have come to me from Piotr Holewa - the top grower in Poland, whose cucumbers can reach up to 99 cm long - via David Thomas, Peter Glazebrook and the original source, the famous Alf Cobb."<br><br>These last three gardeners have at some point held records for their grows. Cobb is a former holder of the longest cucumber record, and also the heaviest cucumber, which is currently held by Thomas.<br><br>Glazebrook, meanwhile, has also held both records in the past and was recently celebrated for growing the heaviest eggplant/aubergine.</blockquote><br><a rel=ugc href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.guinnessworldrecords.com/amp/news/2022/8/worlds-longest-cucumber-record-broken-by-polish-grower-714400">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.guinnessworldrecords.com/amp/news/2022/8/worlds-longest-cucumber-record-broken-by-polish-grower-714400</a><br><br>Omox100000!!! Check out this cucumber (cucumis sativus) which holds the Guinness World Record Title for Longest in the world.<br><br>Anyone come across a longer one here in Nigeria'<br><br>Watch video:<br><a rel=ugc href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/McZqKYlmzhM">www.youtube.com/shorts/McZqKYlmzhM</a>
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