Mini Pumpkins On A Stick

Pumpkin on a stick is easy to grow from seed as long as you keep in mind that this is a tropical plant and needs hot weather to germinate and grow.

Mini pumpkins on a stick.

Those thorns are one of the giveaways that it s an eggplant by the way others call it mock tomato because it really does. That s why it s often called pumpkin on a stick or a pumpkin tree. Then the 12 16 stems produce 6 8 pumpkin like fruits that ripen from green to red to burnt orange. Pumpkin on a stick also called pumpkin tree and pumpkin bush.

The plant grows three to five feet tall. How to grow pumpkin on a stick from seed. 65 days from transplant. For ornamental pumpkin sticks allow the fruit to dry on the stem.

Either fresh or dried they add uniq. Sell by the stem or individually. How to grow pumpkin on a stick or ornamental eggplant take a good look at this plant. You can direct sow the seeds in your garden 2 to 4 weeks after your last frost when the soil temperature reaches 70 f.

These bright colored pumpkin sticks are then used as. If you had not seen the name at the top of the page could you guess what it is. Closely examine the fruit. The plant looks like a typical eggplant thorns and all with a 16 20 spread until the stems and fruit start to form.

It produces ribbed fruit a little smaller than a miniature jack b. As the fruit grows it is a deep green color. Observing the fruit most people guess it is a strange variety of pumpkin. The fruit ripens to a deep reddish orange.