Louisiana couple grows basketball-sized grapefruit in their backyard

A couple of amateur gardeners have grown a basketball-sized grapefruit in their backyard that’s now classified as the world’s largest such fruit. Mary Beth and Doug Meyer from Slidell, La., were officially handed the Guinness World Records plaque for the largest and heaviest grapefruit on Tuesday after it had been certified earlier in the year. The fruit came in with an official measurement of 3.6 kilograms and measured 73 centimetres in circumference, nearly the size of a regulation