This is a guide to collecting Orange Pumpkins, a DIY material in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). To learn how to get Orange Pumpkins and where they can be used, please read on.

How to Get Orange Pumpkins Fast

Steps for Farming Orange Pumpkins Quickly

Buy Pumpkin Starts Plant the Starts Water the Pumpkins every day Check Pumpkin Color Replant the Orange Pumpkins Harvest the Pumpkins again

Buy Pumpkin Starts

Pumpkin Starts can be bought from both Nook's Cranny for 280 Bells or Leif for 140 Bells. Leif will sell them all year round while Timmy and Tommy only stock them during October.

Plant the Pumpkin Starts

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4

You can plant Pumpkin Starts by directly planting them from your inventory or by digging a hole and then planting them with a shovel. It takes four days for a pumpkin to reach its fully-grown stage.

Water the Pumpkins Every Day

Enlarge Watering Pumpkins

Enlarge Sparkles when Watered

You get more Pumpkins if you make sure to water them. You only need to water them twice while growing them to get the maximum of three, but it might be easier to water the first batch every day to make sure!

How to Get the Watering Can

Check the Pumpkin Colors

Once four days have passed, you can check to see if the pumpkins have grown into the color you want. If it is not a Orange Pumpkin, you need to buy Pumpkin Starts and plant them again.

Replant the Orange Pumpkins

You can use the harvested pumpkins to grow more of the same color. Use a shovel to dig a hole, then plant one of your Orange Pumpkins to grow more.

Harvest the Pumpkins Again

Harvest Cycle
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Harvesting your Pumpkins resets them to the 2 day stage, giving you exactly two days (the day you harvest and the day after) to water them again. Water all your Orange Pumpkins twice and you will get 3 pumpkins per Orange Pumpkin plant.

ACNH Pumpkin Guide

When to Grow Orange Pumpkins

Orange Pumpkin
Orange Pumpkin Season	All year round

Orange Pumpkins can be grown and harvested all year round, so make sure you have your watering can and shovel ready for some pumpkin farming!

How Do You Use Orange Pumpkins?

Use for DIY

Orange Pumpkins are used as a DIY crafting item to create the items shown below.

Spooky Fence	Spooky Carriage	Spooky Garland
Spooky Standing Lamp	Spooky Lantern Set	Spooky Arch
Spooky Candy Set	Spooky Scarecrow	Spooky Chair
Spooky Tower	Spooky Lantern	Spooky Table
Spooky Table Setting	Spooky Trick Lamp	Spooky Tree
Spooky Treats Basket	Veggie Basket

Use as Decorations

From the update video, we could see that pumpkins can be placed as decorations as they are, so you can use them to liven up your cottagecore islands even outside of the Halloween season!

Eat for Stamina Points

Eating pumpkins, much like you can with fruits, turnips, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots, can get you up to 10 points of stamina that allows you to things you cannot normally do in the game.

What Happens When You Eat Fruit?

Related Guides

List of DIY Materials

How to Get Pumpkin DIY Materials
Green Pumpkin	Orange Pumpkin
White Pumpkin	Yellow Pumpkin

ACNH Pumpkin Guide