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Real pumpkin with a creepy shape

By on September 23, 2019

Make no mistake. These ghoulish gourds are not some fancy plastic decor. They’re real pumpkins.

Inspired by Japan’s square watermelons, Tony Dighera, an organic farmer at Cinagro farms in California, started growing his cubed fruit five years ago. He grows heart-shaped watermelons too, something Japan doesn’t.

But he had a dream – to get more creative with pumpkins in order to produce different shapes and make a good profit.

 

 

After years of trial and error at his 40-acre farm in Fillmore, California, he came up with “pumpkinstein”, a pumpkin shaped like the head of Frankenstein. He had it patented and Pumpkinstein is now a favorite Halloween staple across America.

Tony’s farm is small and is only able to produce 5,500 a harvest. When Halloween season rolls in, “orders from as far away as Denmark, United Arab Emirates and Japan come flooding in,” he says to Los Angeles Daily News.

Last year, Cinagro farms, which is organic spelled backwards, also gave birth to its new baby, gruesomestein.

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