Mini Pumpkins On A Stick

The fruit ripens to a deep reddish orange.

Mini pumpkins on a stick.

How to grow pumpkin on a stick or ornamental eggplant take a good look at this plant. It produces ribbed fruit a little smaller than a miniature jack b. Also common to asia and south america in north america this nightshade eggplant is more often used as an ornamental where people trim the branches sticks strip the leaves and allow the fruit to dry on the stem. Sell by the stem or individually.

65 days from transplant. For ornamental pumpkin sticks allow the fruit to dry on the stem. Observing the fruit most people guess it is a strange variety of pumpkin. The plant looks like a typical eggplant thorns and all with a 16 20 spread until the stems and fruit start to form.

You can direct sow the seeds in your garden 2 to 4 weeks after your last frost when the soil temperature reaches 70 f. Those thorns are one of the giveaways that it s an eggplant by the way others call it mock tomato because it really does. Some call it pumpkin tree or pumpkin bush because of the sturdy long lasting branches set with large purple thorns. These bright colored pumpkin sticks are then used as.

Either fresh or dried they add uniq. That s why it s often called pumpkin on a stick or a pumpkin tree. 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. As the fruit grows it is a deep green color.

If you had not seen the name at the top of the page could you guess what it is. How to grow pumpkin on a stick from seed. Then the 12 16 stems produce 6 8 pumpkin like fruits that ripen from green to red to burnt orange. The plant grows three to five feet tall.