What is it? It's a Winter Melon

We are quite familiar with the plant in this photo, it's the Night Blooming Cereus that have been featured many times on this blog when the flowers bloomed.  In this photo there isn't any pretty blooming flower but there is this big thing next to it, what is it?

 

It's the fall season, it's almost Halloween, most homes are displaying pumpkins.   We are displaying this big thing that is as big as a pumpkin but not a pumpkin.

How big is it?  This big thing is as big as Aabel but a lot heavier than Aabel.    Aabel weighs less than 6 pounds while this thing weighs 26 pounds.

Get an idea how big it is, comparing to two persimmons.

This is what it looks like when cut into half.   It is a Winter Melon.  Yes, Winter Melon, not Watermelon.      Google it, you may find it interesting.    We'll share the photos of the growing from an itsy bitsy little thing to this big thing in a future post.