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Yes Jen, it can be grown indoors. The instructions say to start your seeds in the little egg shaped greenhouse they give you with the seeds & a peat pellet. Put a couple of seeds into one peat disc. After they sprout and get about 2" high, thin to one strong seedling. Then you can removed the top of the greenhouse. Then at about 6" you can put it in a 6" or so sized pot. When it gets bigger, you can put it in a (I think) 3 gallon pot, and it can be grown indoors or out. It gets about 3' tall.

My pack came with about a dozen seeds.. I only started one peat disc, but I could do probably 3 more, easily.

Meg

YAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! I got my wonder egg last night and I 'AM' a HAPPY HAPPY camper!!!!

OH how cool! does anyone have a picture or website i can see what they look like??
Linda

How often do the egg-looking things come on it? If it's inside, would they be on all year round? Will this plant kill my cats if they decide to eat the leaves?

And you say Wal-mart has them now? Today I'm going to attempt driving for the first time (its ok...the doc said I could!!!

I guess I'm going to have to go back and read this entire thread now that I'm totally interested in this great plant!

Oh....I guess you can't dye the "eggs" that are on the tree for easter though.....?

Hmm.. I doubt that you'll have any eggs on it for Easter.. since that is only 10 days away. But, they do change from white to yellow as they ripen.

As far as toxicity.. I don't know. Also, not sure on how long they live/bloom. I think I read that you can keep them indoors for awhile.. but they don't last forever.

Also, part of the eggplant family, tho not recommended for eating, as they are very bitter & nasty. More or less, ornamental.

Meg

"Today I'm going to attempt driving for the first time (its ok...the doc said I could!!!"

I know that I won't get eggs on it before Easter!!!

I was wondering for next year!!

I can't wait to start my wonder egg plant......I'd start it now, but I have better luck growing seeds outside in window type boxes and then transplanting them.....a lot of the seeds I grow indoors don't live.....and since there were only 4 seeds in the pack then I guess I'll wait.....

Jenn did you get to walmart and find the seed kit???

Linda, there is a pic of Lynnes wonder egg plant at the top of page 1.

I think I"m the only one who didn't
find one!!!!

Story of my life....

Weezie

I'll see if my s~i~l can find one in the town over that has a Wally~World!!!!

Weezie ~ don't be sad <img border="0" alt="[tongue]" title="" src="graemlins/tongue.gif" />

omg....i've never seen anything so unusual. is this some sort of wonderfully weird creation? did i read its from the eggplant family?
Linda

Isn't it cool, Linda?!

Eggplant maybe, but you can't eat these eggs. lol

Lynne, I was thinking the same thing---that the quantity of the seeds wasn't fair...I only got four in mine, but I think some people are paying the same price I paid and getting 12....I wonder why they have the different amounts in them?

I just hope one of the four seeds takes....I'd feel a lot more confident with 12....but hey what can you do.....Really, I'm just happy to have found them at all.....I think that it will be quite the conversation piece....

Weezie, did you look in your garden section really good? Half the time the people in that section don't know where most of the stuff is...at least at my wallyworld....and the wonder egg kit was in a corner of the gardening section that usually doesn't have a lot of stuff...took me forever to find them in mine....

I'd write the company and say something to the effect that you have been talking

SueZ, you really CAN eat them. They have to be prepared the way you would eggplant. I've posted some info and links about it (like 3 pages back Popular subject!).

YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!they have finally sprouted! i'm so happy! i only planted 2 of the seeds so far but i'm gonna start some more when i can. but it hadn't sprouted last night and i looked just a little while ago and there it was! it's about an inch or so high! yay!!! i'm so excited! lol

"To harvest seeds, the fruit needs to be significantly overripe (I think I know what that means).

Also, here's the good news! You CAN eat them! But aparently it is REALLY not recommended because they're so damned bitter. I've found a number of sites saying that they're edible. The recommendation is to prepare them like you would eggplant.

So, they're not poisonous but they don't taste great."

Thanx Sach,

Oh Miss Jamie, you have got my adrenalin flowing for sure!!!

I bought some wonder egg seeds online last year. Just checked and they still have them listed Go to www.grocoseeds.com. I planted them inside over a month ago and they just started growing, tho...do they usually take that long?

Sue

p.s...it's around $1.50 for 35 seeds

How are everyone's seeds doing????


Weezie

Hi Weezie,

I got 6 seeds in my kit.They have all sprouted.

About an inch high.I'm gonna have to thin them soon.I was thinking of taking that little peat pot apart and planting them seperately.

hmmmm....some plants don't like that though.

Any advice would be most welcome.

I still feel like an idiot spending 5 bucks for 6 seeds

HI all i planted my seeds in some of the peat pellets i had 12 seeds i put 2 in each pellet it gave me six plants.i have all ready planted mine out side in the flower beds there abought 2 inchs tall now.looking good so far just hope we dont get a late frost but if we do guess i will put a flower pot over them then.cant wait till there full grown gonna tell folks theres a crazy roster running loose and cant tell the difrence between plant and a hen .should make for a good laugh.your friend in gardening.mike57

i just planted mine this weekend

i have a couple questions about wonder egg

do you have to snip it when it gets 2 inches?

can you eat the fruit?

your not supposed to mist it until it sprouts?

can you plant it in a huge pot instead of a 6 inch pot when it gets 5 to 6 inches?

how long does it take for the egg fruit to grow?

pleae tell me all the answers to the questions