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Last summer I posted pictures of my "wonder egg" plant which is a plant with fruit that really looks and feels like chicken eggs. I was only able to harvest a few seeds, so not enough to share.

I wanted to let you know that WalMart has Wonder Egg kits on sale this week for $4.96. It includes a bonus of Tiny Tim tomato seeds. I remember that they also sold these kits last year just before Easter. I believe the kit includes a plastic pot, some soil and the seeds.

Hope this helps... Lynne

Oooooo thanks Lynne.I've been wanting that plant.

I've seen some seeds offered in catalogues.They are really expensive.4.95 is a great price.


duckie

That is such a cool looking plant!!!

I'll have to take a peak into my Wally~World,
doubt if they'll have them or at that price.
But I will look!!!!

Weezie

*What time of year did you start your seeds last year? Just curious???
Were they easy to start? Can't said.

A call to my WalMart and it doesn't have the egg plant either. I hate that. If I can get to Charlotte next week, I'll check there. What a cool plant.

I started these seeds indoors last year around mid-March.

Here's a link to the other posts on this plant from last summer:

wonder egg plant

By the way... I don't know if my WalMart has them either - I saw them in their flyer in the newspaper today...

You might want to look around before buying them. Our local store sells Easter Egg plant seed packets for just under $2 CDN (including tax). If anyone would like me to pick some up and send them out, please PM me. Or you can order them yourself online at

McKenzie seeds

Cricket

Oops, just noticed that McKenzie seeds doesn't offer on-line ordering - sorry!

Well.....a month or so ago I was thrilled to open a letter from Cricket and find a pack of these seeds inside.

There are not many in the pack, but if you can't find them and want a few of these seeds, I will be happy to share. You might just get 3 or 4 seeds, but I guess that would better than NO seeds!

Cindy

My husband called a WalMart and the lady said she had a vegetable called Wonder Egg. Is that it?

Yep!

None at my local wal-mart.

Nope,not at my local Wally's either.I had to go to the super duper store 40 miles away.Good grief I hate hiking in that place.I really want this plant.

btw,don't bother braving the chemical fertilizer stench in lawn and garden.oh no,you have to take a lonnnng walk to the food section.It's in the Easter aisle.Did I mention ,I really want this plant.


duckie

Our local store appears to be keeping them in stock this season and it's not a problem for me to pick up more. PM me if you want Easter Egg (a.k.a. Wonder Egg) seeds.

Cricket

I've decided I'm going to eat some of these "eggs". :rolleyes:
Stir-fry or breaded and deep-fried?

Check back with me late summer and see if I'm still here!

I'm trying mine poached!

Oh, yeah!
Let's do it on the same day so we can compare notes!

Cool! An egg pact!

Cindy, I have a great recipe for scrambled eggs.

My egg plants aren't a wonder at all. They always seem to kick the bucket before the egg is "laid"! My aunt has the same results that I do. I am glad that someone was able to show me what they are supposed to look like!

Dianna

Hay all just though i would let you know these eggs are not to eat.i would hate to loose some of my garden friends.wallmart has them here there in the garden shop i just bought me one today it comes with four seeds and some tiny tim tomotos also four seeds and a littel spounge like pot you just add water then plant the seed. they sell for$4.96 a peace.

i got this off a web site.
Easter Egg plant Ornamental Golden Eggs
Easy to grow, this plant is suitable for not just the garden, but containers as well. Unique and interesting plants produce an abundance of egg-shaped non-edible fruits. As this fruit matures it turns from a white to a golden yellow.

Great for containers

Ornamental plant only - not to be injested.

Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost.
your friend in gardening.mike57

I got mine as well. I love it... the packaging was cracking me up because it's made for non-farmers like you wouldn't believe.... but the instructions are actually for a plant which is NOT suitable for beginners....

In other words, I should do fine but, the 8 year old who it's purchased for will not do fine. It's geared toward Easter.

If I'm able to get any seeds, I'm happy to share.

Mine had 12 seeds in it so i planted 2 seeds in the peet pelits bought extra to plant the rest hope to get six plants to grow.i think there a real pretty plant.i worked all morning planting seeds in peet pelits hope 2 have abought 200 plants to set out at the end of the mounth.your friend in gardening Mike57

i just got back from walmart and i just got one of those egg plant kits now i'm wondering something...it doesn't have any drainage holes in the bottom of the egg planter thingy so won't the plant be waterlogged?? thanks for helping a dumb blonde lol

i got one today too. i think the idea is that after it sprouts, you plant it in a different pot.

OK. I did some investigating. The plant is supposed to go into a 3 gallon pot once it's got it's first set of true leaves. It is apparently frost tender so you'll lose it in the winter if you don't bring it in. I live in LA so I'll probably plant it in the ground once it's large enough. By the way, I recommend snipping the netting off the peat pellet when you go to plant it in something bigger.

It needs full sun and blooms in late summer, early fall. The flowers are purple. It grows to 12" - 18" and should be spaced about a foot apart. Average watering needs. Do not overwater.

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.

Do you have any information on the wonder egg plant? I can't find anything on the Web except other people's questions about it. It is grown from a seed inside one of those plastic two-part eggs and has some sort of edible fruits on it. I have seen it sold in drugstores in the past.

The plant you're thinking of goes by the more formal name Solanum melongena and is a member of the eggplant family. The fruits, or "eggs," cannot be plucked and eaten -- they are very bitter. But you can prepare them in much the same way you would eggplants.

From the Old Farmer's Almanac site. http://www.almanac.com/question/oneanswer.php?questionnumber=13283

I have read all of this and now thats it I gotta get one of these things,lol. Just to see if I can grow it,lol. Will start lookin for it tomorrow.
Definetly got to have one,lol.

Sachi, that does it for me!
I'm eatin' mine!

Thanks!

Cindy

I'm right there with you. I almost don't care that it'll be bitter!

I bought one as a gift for a girlfriend and she was sooo depressed that the plant was only decorative. She kept saying in a lilting voice, "But I wanna eat 'em..."

She's totally thrilled now that I've found that link! And I am too... Because I wanna eat 'em!

When the time is right, we'll have to get some eggplant recipes goin' down in the recipe forum.
I've got a few good ones.

Cindy

One step ahead of you!

http://www.aubergines.org/recipes.php

ok, i'm going to find a link to a recipe that i have made using a very bitter relative of cucumbers called "bitter melon". it will work with your wonder eggs 'cause you can put egg plant in it.

and it tastes good and the bitterness is mostly gone...

if you fry it up like egg plant, you are in for a rude awakening unless you like alum water... i don't, but know folks who do!

I need to get a wonder egg plant.....I've never seen anything like it before......Every garden needs a little comedic relief--and this looks like just what the doctor ordered.....too funny. Too bad I didn't think to look for it yesterday when I was at walmart......

here ya go, it is Filipino and called pinakbet and is eaten with rice.

Thanks!
I have eaten a lot of Filipino dishes (well, not the actual dishes, but the food IN the dishes!)

Well, I'm laughing so hard now I can't type!
Doesn't take much to crack myself up, does it?

Anyway, I like Filipino food. There.

But, I'm also gonna have to just bite right into one of those eggs for the heck of it...Fear Factor style!

After reading that last post, it's obvious I need to get out more.

Or up my dosage.

Cindy

I bought a kit for a gilfriend of mine. I think we'll do the same and bite right in just 'cause it won't kill us LOL!!! Heck... I've bitten into green tomatoes before... didn't kill me but I was swishing and spitting for hours!!!

Too bad we're all so far apart where they won't be "ripe for eatin'" at the same time, or we'd have a live "biting into the raw wonder egg" party here, and all do it at the same time!

We'd be spittin' simultaneously all over the world, huh?

Cindy

I think we've gone over the edge.

Woo hoo!!! My seeds germinated!!!! Now I have to find a safe place for them outside!!! Ahhhh!!!

"I've bitten into green tomatoes before... didn't kill me but I was swishing and spitting for hours!!!"


I LOVE "Fried Green Tomatoes", Sachi ...

... the movie 'AND' the breaded tomatoes.

They weren't fried... My brother played a prank on me and told me how good they were. I guess I should be thankful that they weren't worms or slugs.

I'm so excited.....I was strolling though the garden center in wallyworld looking for a way to spend some money, and there in a lonely corner were the wonder egg kits!!!! So I bought one of course......I can't wait to see what they are really like--as soon as it warms up a bit more I'll start the seeds out.... <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" />

Oh I have got to find one of these kits.

Hey, guys! I found another great little reference. Eggplants
It states specifically that both unripe and ripe fruits are edible. (Down at the bottom.) I keep checking because they are members of the Nightshade family. But then... so are tomatoes!!!

The purpose in growing these is to see the stunned look on friends and family when they see what looks and feels like "real" chicken eggs growing on a plant.

Trust me, it's fun!

"The purpose in growing these is to see the stunned look on friends and family when they see what looks and feels like "real" chicken eggs growing on a plant.

Trust me, it's fun!"


It does look cool alright and I have just got to find one. LOL.

Thanx Lynne.

Hi my seeds came up today i had 12 seeds in my egg kit so i planted 2 in each of the 6 peat pellits so i should have at least a few to plant in my flower beds.think i am gonna tell all my friends that i have a mixed up rooster that cant tell a hen from a plant and that this is the result from it do you think they will buy that it should make for a good laugh i think.your friend in gardening.mike57

I haven't read this thread yet, but looked at the picture.

Will this plant grow inside??

Jenn, I don't see why it wouldn't grow indoors if it has the proper light.

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

Well, you all have gotten my curiousity up so I just had to try another one. I planted my seeds this morning. I got 7 seeds in the pack and planted only 3 so I could share with my aunt if she wants to try again, too.

Dianna

Mine got knocked over during all the easter festivities and i didn't see it til after everyone left.

I couldn't tell if the seeds came out or not.

Sue Z,
I'll be keepin' my fingers crossed for them!!!
(I'll have to add the <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" /> eyeball crossin'
gremalin, we don't have a finger crossin' one!) LOL!

Weezie

"(I'll have to add the eyeball crossin'
gremalin, we don't have a finger crossin' one!) LOL!"


lol ... Thanx weezie.

Sue z

Guess what my mommy found for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee???
:p :p :p

I got egg plant...and I peaked at the amount of seeds,
looks like 9 seeds!!!

Whoooooooooooooo~hooooooooooooooooooo!!!


I'll be growin' eggs this year....
I can't wait to see those things..

Weezie

What a great mom! I'm glad she got them for you because I know you wanted some.....that's so cool, we're all going to have to share pics of our egg plants down the road..... <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" /> So many of us have them.

That will be alot of FUNNNNNNNN!!!
I can not wait for that!!!

Oh, wait, that'll be the end of summer,
YES, I CAN WAIT...spring IS JUST SORTA SPRINGING!

But it will be fun when we finally do see them.

Weezie

Yay Weezie!

Hey, I can see a 2nd set of leaves on my sprout!! Wooooo!!

Meg

I was at Walmart yesterday and was just wandering around and all of a sudden I saw a display with them!!! They didn't have them until just the other day (according to the lady I talked to). So, yesterday I planted the little seeds......6 in my packet. I can't wait!!!

WOW! WOW! WOW! It's so exciting to see how many of you were able to find these kits at their WalMarts! Mine never did get them in...
Sounds like a plan!

***Lynne,
I PM'd you!

***Sue Z,
How are your plants doing?
Did they make it thru the Easter Festivities?
Are they still growing or what???

Weezie

yea how are everyone's wonder eggs doing? mine were doing great and then boom! here came the nasty yucky ugly white fuzzy mold! oh well i guess it was my fault because i left the top part of the egg on there :-( they were getting their 2nd sets of leaves too :-( ahh well i'll try to plant some more seeds tomorrow :-)wish me luck!

so how's everybody's wonder egg plants doing? mine outside aren't really doing anything so i think i'll try to plant them again inside :-)

mine aren't doing anything, and i am on my second try. it has been a week. i'll let you know if they don't do anything next week

I lost mine. It was doing good.. getting 2nd set of leaves, or is that the 1st true set? I don't know.. anyways.. it wilted to nothing, and I don't know why. I think it was because I took it out of it's little greenhouse as was instructed. I touched it, so it died.. my deadly black thumb strikes again!

I lost 1/2 my veggies that had started too. So far, I have kept 3 of my 4 varieties of peppers, and I think that's it. The rest of the stuff I had started, all wilted. *sigh*

Meg

That's a marvelous plant - I'm going to keep my eye out for that one.

And no, that has nothing to do with the old joke . . . not polite to tell it here anyway.

But, yeah . . . I'll keep my eye out for ya' . . . hee hee!

Meg,
After you took the lid off,
may I ask what you did, or the process,
when the lid was off???

And what were the watering practices??

Weezie

well the way i did mine was i did the whole jiffy disc thing (you know where you put the discs in some water and they get bigger?)and they were already wet so i then put the wonder egg seeds in the jiffy discs,1 seed in both,and then i wet a paper towel and i put it underneath the discs. 1 sprouted in about a week and it took maybe another week for the other to sprout. then about maybe 2 or 3 weeks later i noticed a white mold looking stuff on the jiffy discs so i thought maybe it would help to just wipe it off and they would live so i did and i checked the next day and i noticed the white stuff on them again and they were dead :-( so i just threw them away and i started some outside and they aren't doing anything so far so i'm just gonna try to put more inside and pray that they'll live this time. last time i think the problem was there was too much moisture and not enough air? i left the lid on and never took it off but it only had a couple of air holes in the top part of the egg so that's what i think happened...not enough air and too much moisture. so what i'm gonna do this time is replant them in some jiffy discs and then plant the seeds in them and place a wet paper towel under them and leave the lid on until they sprout. when they sprout i will take the lid off in the day and put it back on at night. hopefully they will survive this time! fingers,toes,legs,and eyes crossed! <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" />

I have a sprout! I saw it just lastnight, so I took the top off of the egg. I didn't water it, because the little jiffy disc wasn't light brown, which means that it was still moist. The directions say only to water it when it starts to get dry, so maybe your's is getting too much water with the wet paper towel?? The directions say to water just a little bit by putting a bit of water in the bottom of the egg and that's it. A nice sunny window or supplemental light and that's it.....so that's what I'm doing. Here's hoping!...as I also have the thumb of death!

oh congrats!! i'm hoping that when i start over again that i may get a little luck this time! lol

My largest cat decided that my seed tray was a nice place to sleep. Nothing survived.

Oh Sachi, I'm so sorry!!

Weezie, I took the lid off, and only watered as they started to look dry. The instructions said to water when the disc got lighter in color, as that would indicate it was starting to dry out.. I may have watered a little sooner than that, but it was never left to be saturated, or dried out. It just looked good one day, and the next it was wilted to nothing.

I'm just deadly with green stuff. They never had a chance.

Meg

I have 2 seeds sprouting up too Meg....I'm sooo exxcited about it....I hope that they continue to grow okay........I can't wait until I can get them outside.....

Today a second sprout popped up next to my larger one. Its literally right next to it. Should I pullit out? Will it crowd the larger one?? I don't really want to get rid of it! Is it too small to transplant into starter soil with no fertilizer??? Yesterday I watered the little jiffy pot....that was scarey! I was afraid that it would be dead when I looked at it today...but it seems to be ok!

Mine are kind of close too.......I know that with seeds they say to pick one that looks good, and then snip the ones that are too close to it with scissors....because if you pull it, it may disrupt the roots growing on the good one. I don't know though.....I haven't done that with mine yet.....I'm just letting them do their own thing.....There were so few seeds in the packet that I don't want to chop one down.....

I have two sprouts, too! I sure don't want to cut one out. Knowing my luck I would choose the one that was ready to die anyway. When do you put them in a pot? Or transplant them outside?

Dianna

I had typed up the directions for someone and kept them just in case....

Weezie

Thank you, Weezie. Maybe my egg won't get scrambled this time!

Dianna

I looked at my sprouts today..........and they were wilted and hanging over the side of the jiffy pot. Upon further inspection, the pot was pretty dry....but didn't look light brown in color at all!!! So, I put some water into the pot (which it didn't even want to suck up!! ) and put it back to where I keep it. I'm sooooooooo sad! I hope they perk up...there actually is a 3rd sprout getting ready to pop up, so I hope that if the 2 larger ones don't make it, that this little baby one will. BZ and I planted these together!

Up until today, I was having the same problem as Loz...I just couldn't bring myself to cutting a sprout away because the packet came with so few seeds!...I guess that's not going to be much of a problem now, eh?

Well, if it's any concellation, I haven't even
planted mine yet....No room in my house, nor window/light space and the greenhouse isn't warm enough during the nights yet.

Weezie

i replanted some today and let's just hope that they sprout and live this time cuz i only have like 2 seeds left! i planted some outside and they aren't doing anything yet! my picotee cleomes are doing GREAT so far though!!