Answer to Stack Overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37858807/how-to-dynamically-set-the-minpointlength-except-0

HTML

<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>

<div id="container" style="height: 400px"></div>

JavaScript

$(function () {
 

    $('#container').highcharts({
        chart: {
            type: 'column'
        },
        xAxis: {
            categories: ['']
        },
        yAxis: {
           enabled: false,
            gridLineWidth: 0,
            lineWidth: 0,
            min: 0,
            title: {
                text: '',
                margin: 0
            },
            labels: {
                enabled: false
            }
        },

        plotOptions: {
            series: {
                        minPointLength: 3,
            }
        },
        series: [{
            data: [10]
        }]
    });
});