In patches across the country, a growing number of farmers are pulling white – not orange – pumpkins out of their fields.

In a growing trend, white has become the new orange – at least according to trendy trick or treaters seeking a spin on the traditional black and orange Halloween colours.

Carvers will find that the hybrid albino pumpkins are orange on the inside and taste the same as their orange counterparts.

B.C.-based Thrifty Foods have put white pumpkins in all eight stores in the province.

Farmer Jack Mar has been growing orange pumpkins for three decades and white pumpkins for the past three years. This year, he has dedicated a small portion of his land to the white pumpkin variety. He plans on experimenting with even more colours in the coming years.

"There are some blue ones out, there are some bright red ones out [there]. You name it, I'm gonna try them all," Mar said.

The National Retail Federation said 58 per cent of Canadians planned to buy pumpkins this year and expected to pay an average of $10 each.

Ontario, New Brunswick and Quebec are the top-pumpkin producing provinces, according to Statistic Canada, which valued the 2001 crop at almost $22 million.