For years I've been trying to grow it; last spring I nearly succeeded, but some animal ate the vine and the seed didn't show any more growth. We are in autumn now, today I got freshly harvested seeds and I'll LEAVE THEM IN A COOL PLACE WITHOUT DIRECT SUNLIGHT, hoping that they will have developed vines when spring comes. I think this was a really good and helpful information. Wish me luck, please! 🍀🤞
My dad is obsessed with growing chokos but has been unsuccessful so I’m going to try to grow them for him once I rebuild our gardens in our new house. Thanks Yan!
its ease don't berry the fruit only berry the end let the stem come out later it will grow down roots then you need to cut it back and feed and water and feed i mix in leaves like cumfrey and grass clippings in a big container with water cover and let it rot for at least 2 -3-4 weeks the stinkier the better first time a had white one growing this year some grow like 6-800 gr huge !!!!! good luck
My supermarket choko sprouted today. I hope it will grow out. We have 4-5 mos of warm weather, so I’m hoping it will produce enough to dehydrate and share with others. Great video, new sub!
You are a fantastic TEACHER. I truly enjoyed your Chayote tutorial. Well done ! I was just looking at my monsters today having only learned one recipe from a Guatamalan lady some 40 years ago now, it is prepared by first parboiling then peeling& slicing & dipping in egg batter that can also be rolled in panko bread crumbs & sautéd & is really delish, I didn't know much else about it but thanks to you now I am well edumacated now ! Now in Australia & inspite of being up in the GreatDividing Range & a few nights down to 6 degrees the leaves are still full & green & the fruit getting larger by the day. I didn't know to leave them as long as is possible for best results. Thank you again lovely lady for sharing your knowledge & green thumb !
Thank you so much for this video, I am so very pleased to come across it because I haven't seen any information about how to grow Chayote and this video is so in-depth it has lots of information that I think even I can get this to grow. I want to grow it because it is not available in my Country that I have seen and I am on a Keto diet and miss my apple pie this fruit has all the right textures to replace apples, So much appreciated.
@@dailjordan5279 I have found a couple from the Keto providers, but not tried it yet. I believe you cook the Chayote in with Apple and cinnamon herbal tea bags
A very informative and interesting 👍 video on Choko vegetables 😀. Thanks for sharing your advise we have tried to grow them here in England🇬🇧, sadly not to well not the right climate. Take care and enjoy your day Simon and Beth ❤️ 👋 😊
Thank you so much for your insights!! I have been growing these lovely veggies for years on and off, sometimes with more affluent success than others. But only ever the green one! i have been looking for the white variety, but so far, no luck here in Perth! Maybe some one in Perth reads this, and surprises me with the wonderful news that they have some for me!!!!! Please?????
Watched your video an I will be trying to grow Choyotes as u love them. Have only had them sliced a steamed in stir fry veggies or chunked in soup an just steamed in chunks. Watched your video from the Cayman islands
What an excellent video! Thank you❤️ Chokos are underrated in my opinion, am learning more each year about how versatile they are. My very first chutney/pickle I had was a choko pickle...omg good! Have been hooked ever since and found a recipe for it a few years ago and have been making it since. My partner now loves this pickle also and has it on request. Hevised to wonder why i would eat 'a weed' lol.We can't not have a vine of it in my backyard now... it's a keeper for sure ❤
Many thanks - I have just been given one by a friend - having never heard of them. Your video was a fantastic intro - will be looking at it every day waiting for the sprout. From West Sussex UK.
I'm so delighted to have found a fellow Melbournian gardener on RUclips!! I just picked up 4 sprouting green and white chokos today. Great video. Looking forward to more 😊
I'm trying to spourt chayote right now. I just recently discovered this beautiful fruit/veg and I'm excited to get it growing in my garden. Thank you for giving me so much information about how to grow chokos. It helps a great deal!
I love choko, I grew up with a big vine growing in the backyard, we always had more than we could eat. I have just sprouted one and hope it will survive in cooler weather (right now it is inside by the fire and growing rapidly! I am looking forward to getting some fruit one day. Ioved your video and your passion for choko's! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for a inspiring and informative video...I am from Trinidad and Tobago...we call it Christophene...we use it in Chinese cooking steamed and stir fried.....I was never successful in growing them so I came across your video while..looking through You Tube ...and I am satisfied with your info....so thank you ....I have subscribed to your channel....
Thank you for a nice introduction to growing Chokos. I have often seen them at Asian supermarkets here in Denmark and want to try to grow them. I just wonder - how cold is it getting at your place in winter? We can have cold winters here, but the biggest problem might be that they last long and we can have cold periods up to late spring. However, considering using the whole plant, I don't have to grow them for the fruits.
Great video. I am planting a choko tomorrow. As I need to keep my choko in a pot, will that still grow ok in a pot? What size pot should I use? Thank you ☺️
Thanks for the video you forgot to put the link above so we could see how you cook/eat it. PS we also grow them. In the United States in West Palm Beach Florida
Great video, great chayote plant, had my chayote burnt lately with to much heath at almost 43 celsius, do you think it will come back when it cools down a bit. Thanks for a very interesting video, bye bye.
It's actually quite easy to get the seed out of the flesh. I am more interested in how to make fruit as my first year Vine grew very well but gave no fruit! Should I nip the tip for more branches or reduce the number of vines shot up from the ground?
Great information. I'm watching you from England. Is there any way i can buy some white chayote seeds from you if you don't mind. First time i have seen white chayote. Have a wonderful time. Thanks for all the information.
Nice video, tried to grow a few last year, they all grew fine for 2- 3 months and got 1.5m and nice big leaves, then the new leaves stopped folding out and stayed small thick and rubbery and got brown and dry - plant died a few months later (happened indoor, in my green house and outdoor) could they have been infected with a disease or sprayed with a chemical inhibiter (was bought from a grocery store)
I am wondering now if we have moth vine growing on our property. we didn't plant them a neighbor did and now they are all over the property with some of them growing up in the tree canopies. I grew up eating Chokos though and always hated them, so have not been tempted to pick them mistaking them for chokos. my mum used to prepare steamed chokos with every meal :(
Delightful . I'm brand new to this vegetable. This video helped me understand a great deal about it. I live in South Arizona, USA. Plenty of heat and Sun. I really want to try growing it! Thanks so much.
it will give you sooo much fruit its amazing as long as you give it food and water you can use it in anything from Smoody to Indian or chines soup , with eggs
Now I wonder if we did an over kill, I planted 2 store bought against a tree, attached to a broken branch to trellis, planned on using tree as a trellis, if grown like yours, well we will see. It is only in for about a month and climbing tree already, I live in zone 8 USA, it is June now and we are getting into the 90s now, heat doesn't seem to bother them at all.
In chayote (chayohtli from the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs) the modern Greeks gave the name "Jonah's pumpkin" to its fruit because in the book of Jonah, God causes a plant to grow above Jonah's shelter in the desert and give him shade from the sun. The fast growing plant mentioned in the book is said to have been the chayote. I planted a few such plants around the perimeter of my orchard for fence use. These very quickly instead of a fence became a jungle and filled with fruits in the fall. The wrist is ribbed but not heavily wrinkled like yours. A strong differentiation is the spines present throughout the fruit. Do you know if there is a prickly variety? Thank you.
Great video! Here in the SE United States we grow them and call them Mirlitons. Their are several "varieties" that have been propagated by families or in certain areas, which have created vines better suited to our particular environment. While the imported ones from the grocery store will grow, they do not do nearly as well as the local ones.
I used to eat mirlitons in LA as a kid-where do you find local fruits to sprout? I have tried twice from a grocery store fruit I sprouted, and it died each time after I planted it out.
@@awkwardtexasstranger5660 you have to look for growers. There is a network of growers that sell or give out mirlitons to grow. You can find it online, just look for milliton landrace seeds.
I kept having trouble getting them to sprout also and I just got one finally after putting it in a paper bag and in a lower cabinet in my kitchen ! I planted it in the garden and am hopeful!
Hi thank you for your info of how to grow chayote fr. fruit . I have just potted my fruit into a container a bit larger than yours. I am encountering a problem that the leaves on the new shoot ais drying up and cannot grow into a bigger size before it’s brittle into pieces when I rubbed it Is it normal or sick? I am now having it grow under two fluorescent shop light in the kitchen area. Do you think it will die. It is only January 23 in Vancouver BC . I still have to grow it indoor for at lease few more months. The young shoot is about 24 inches high now and was looking really health with a lot of small leaves and loops . I have it planted three weeks ago and all of a sudden it seem slow down and stop . But I notice a second small young shoot is appearing from the fruit Please give me some ideas of what happen You help is greatly appreciated
Thank you for your careful explanation of how to grow choko. I keep losing mine and now I know why! I plant them out far too soon in our damp Auckland spring. I will be potting up and holding off planting out in the garden until it is warmer this season. I can't wait to try the choko shoot stir fry, it looks fantastic. I love your garden and you've inspired me to put more vertical structures in my own to catch more canopy light. ☀🌳🫒🍎Sending good growing vibes from across the Tasman.
My cheyote vine has been growing for a long time but hasn't given any fruits. Flowers come but they are not turning into fruits. Recently I have kept the pot in full sunlight
Chayote have great texture, but little or no flavor IMO. They add nice bulk and texture to a dish, but seriously ... NOBODY has cravings for them like they do for fruits n veg that actually have flavor. Seriously, unless you have a fairly broad and skillful repertoire of sauces (which I do) they're hard to justify a spot in one's garden. Im going to grow one this year, just as a supplement to my chinese bitter melons ... but just 1.
For years I've been trying to grow it; last spring I nearly succeeded, but some animal ate the vine and the seed didn't show any more growth.
We are in autumn now, today I got freshly harvested seeds and I'll LEAVE THEM IN A COOL PLACE WITHOUT DIRECT SUNLIGHT, hoping that they will have developed vines when spring comes. I think this was a really good and helpful information. Wish me luck, please!
🍀🤞
Have you been successful? All the best ❤
My dad is obsessed with growing chokos but has been unsuccessful so I’m going to try to grow them for him once I rebuild our gardens in our new house. Thanks Yan!
its ease don't berry the fruit only berry the end let the stem come out later it will grow down roots then you need to cut it back and feed and water and feed i mix in leaves like cumfrey and grass clippings in a big container with water cover and let it rot for at least 2 -3-4 weeks the stinkier the better first time a had white one growing this year some grow like 6-800 gr huge !!!!! good luck
My supermarket choko sprouted today. I hope it will grow out. We have 4-5 mos of warm weather, so I’m hoping it will produce enough to dehydrate and share with others. Great video, new sub!
Thank you! So very much! Iam a Choko expert now ! Wonderful teaching!😊
You are a fantastic TEACHER. I truly enjoyed your Chayote tutorial. Well done !
I was just looking at my monsters today having only learned one recipe from a Guatamalan
lady some 40 years ago now, it is prepared by first parboiling then peeling& slicing & dipping
in egg batter that can also be rolled in panko bread crumbs & sautéd & is really delish,
I didn't know much else about it but thanks to you now I am well edumacated now !
Now in Australia & inspite of being up in the GreatDividing Range & a few nights down to 6 degrees
the leaves are still full & green & the fruit getting larger by the day.
I didn't know to leave them as long as is possible for best results.
Thank you again lovely lady for sharing your knowledge & green thumb !
Thank you so much for this video, I am so very pleased to come across it because I haven't seen any information about how to grow Chayote and this video is so in-depth it has lots of information that I think even I can get this to grow. I want to grow it because it is not available in my Country that I have seen and I am on a Keto diet and miss my apple pie this fruit has all the right textures to replace apples, So much appreciated.
do you have recipie for chayote pie that tastes like apple pie
@@dailjordan5279 I have found a couple from the Keto providers, but not tried it yet. I believe you cook the Chayote in with Apple and cinnamon herbal tea bags
A Melbourne food forest, now that's way cool!. 😀GOTTA LUV THE CHOKO!
Thank you for your very generous information. I’m starting one tomorrow!🎉
Excellent video. This will be my first one to grow. I live in southeast Missouri, (Hayti}.
love your relaxed no bs informative garden vids! I love how you seem to focus on high yeild low fuss fruits n veg:)
A very informative and interesting 👍 video on Choko vegetables 😀.
Thanks for sharing your advise we have tried to grow them here in England🇬🇧, sadly not to well not the right climate.
Take care and enjoy your day Simon and Beth ❤️ 👋 😊
Thank you for a thorough and well articulated presentation. Quite useful information! ❤
You are a great teacher!! enjoyed the detailed information..thank you!
Thank you so much for your insights!! I have been growing these lovely veggies for years on and off, sometimes with more affluent success than others. But only ever the green one! i have been looking for the white variety, but so far, no luck here in Perth! Maybe some one in Perth reads this, and surprises me with the wonderful news that they have some for me!!!!! Please?????
Is there recipe for this show the ingredients if good for use
I appreciate all the information. This plant is new to me, and I want to know all I can.
Watched your video an I will be trying to grow Choyotes as u love them. Have only had them sliced a steamed in stir fry veggies or chunked in soup an just steamed in chunks. Watched your video from the Cayman islands
What an excellent video! Thank you❤️ Chokos are underrated in my opinion, am learning more each year about how versatile they are. My very first chutney/pickle I had was a choko pickle...omg good! Have been hooked ever since and found a recipe for it a few years ago and have been making it since. My partner now loves this pickle also and has it on request. Hevised to wonder why i would eat 'a weed' lol.We can't not have a vine of it in my backyard now... it's a keeper for sure ❤
recipe please
I need this pickle recipie
Many thanks - I have just been given one by a friend - having never heard of them. Your video was a fantastic intro - will be looking at it every day waiting for the sprout. From West Sussex UK.
Thanks for sharing as I am in the UK and was wondering if we had enough sunshine.
I'm so delighted to have found a fellow Melbournian gardener on RUclips!! I just picked up 4 sprouting green and white chokos today. Great video. Looking forward to more 😊
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@@kathyhirsch379 Hello! I hope you're having a wonderful day 🌱🌞
I'm trying to spourt chayote right now. I just recently discovered this beautiful fruit/veg and I'm excited to get it growing in my garden. Thank you for giving me so much information about how to grow chokos. It helps a great deal!
I love choko, I grew up with a big vine growing in the backyard, we always had more than we could eat. I have just sprouted one and hope it will survive in cooler weather (right now it is inside by the fire and growing rapidly! I am looking forward to getting some fruit one day. Ioved your video and your passion for choko's! Thank you for sharing!
Great job..learn a lot
Wonderfully presented. I've added my subscription.
Thank you for a inspiring and informative video...I am from Trinidad and Tobago...we call it Christophene...we use it in Chinese cooking steamed and stir fried.....I was never successful in growing them so I came across your video while..looking through You Tube ...and I am satisfied with your info....so thank you ....I have subscribed to your channel....
So very informative. Thanks
Thankyou for the wonderful insight
In the Caribbean they're called, Christophene and used in stews.
I love the fascinating names they get around the world yet it’s the same fruit we all eat and love .
Thank you for a nice introduction to growing Chokos. I have often seen them at Asian supermarkets here in Denmark and want to try to grow them. I just wonder - how cold is it getting at your place in winter? We can have cold winters here, but the biggest problem might be that they last long and we can have cold periods up to late spring. However, considering using the whole plant, I don't have to grow them for the fruits.
another channel said they take 5 months to harvest and they held up over winter in zone 8a.
We call these mirlitons in Louisiana. We have our own landrace varieties because it can grow wild there (it's not native, however.)
Great video, just got a sprouting choko from a mate so looking forward to growing some of my own as I just tasted my first yesterday and loved it!
Wo kann man die Früchte bekommen hatte Samen bestellt hatte damit null Erfolg
get reedy for a huge production it need some place to clime it can take over half of your garden
We love our choko vine.. pretty much perennial once it’sestablished
We call them chayote. We cut them in small pcs and saute them in garlic onion tomatoes and shrimps.
Great video. I am planting a choko tomorrow. As I need to keep my choko in a pot, will that still grow ok in a pot? What size pot should I use? Thank you ☺️
Very informative! Thank you!
Thank you!
Looks very good, how long did it take until it fruited?
Wonderful video. Thanks so much
Thanks for the video you forgot to put the link above so we could see how you cook/eat it. PS we also grow them. In the United States in West Palm Beach Florida
Great video, great chayote plant, had my chayote burnt lately with to much heath at almost 43 celsius, do you think it will come back when it cools down a bit. Thanks for a very interesting video, bye bye.
It's actually quite easy to get the seed out of the flesh. I am more interested in how to make fruit as my first year Vine grew very well but gave no fruit! Should I nip the tip for more branches or reduce the number of vines shot up from the ground?
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Great information. I'm watching you from England. Is there any way i can buy some white chayote seeds from you if you don't mind. First time i have seen white chayote.
Have a wonderful time.
Thanks for all the information.
Thanks for an excellent video! You have yours planted in a raised bed, but can I use a large pot instead? Thank you.
Yes, mine is in the pot.
Nice video, tried to grow a few last year, they all grew fine for 2- 3 months and got 1.5m and nice big leaves, then the new leaves stopped folding out and stayed small thick and rubbery and got brown and dry - plant died a few months later (happened indoor, in my green house and outdoor) could they have been infected with a disease or sprayed with a chemical inhibiter (was bought from a grocery store)
maybe it was gmo
I am wondering now if we have moth vine growing on our property. we didn't plant them a neighbor did and now they are all over the property with some of them growing up in the tree canopies. I grew up eating Chokos though and always hated them, so have not been tempted to pick them mistaking them for chokos. my mum used to prepare steamed chokos with every meal :(
Delightful . I'm brand new to this vegetable. This video helped me understand a great deal about it. I live in South Arizona, USA. Plenty of heat and Sun. I really want to try growing it! Thanks so much.
it will give you sooo much fruit its amazing as long as you give it food and water you can use it in anything from Smoody to Indian or chines soup , with eggs
Thank you
Growing it over the chook house, so lets hope they like it NZ
Like your garden also were can you get the white choko's I was also told U need to grow 2 choko's together...why don't know..old fashion thing...❤❤❤
How much heat can it withstand???
Temps here in CA rural area get up to 113° and maybe average 109''ish during summer.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. UK
What about young leaves,are they edible,as I consume only the leaves and feed the choko fruit to the pigs
Now I wonder if we did an over kill, I planted 2 store bought against a tree, attached to a broken branch to trellis, planned on using tree as a trellis, if grown like yours, well we will see. It is only in for about a month and climbing tree already, I live in zone 8 USA, it is June now and we are getting into the 90s now, heat doesn't seem to bother them at all.
Thanks for this info. Im in central Queensland and was wondering if anyone online sells ready to plant chokos?
In chayote (chayohtli from the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs)
the modern Greeks gave the name "Jonah's pumpkin" to its fruit because in the book of Jonah, God causes a plant to grow above Jonah's shelter in the desert and give him shade from the sun. The fast growing plant mentioned in the book is said to have been the chayote. I planted a few such plants around the perimeter of my orchard for fence use. These very quickly instead of a fence became a jungle and filled with fruits in the fall. The wrist is ribbed but not heavily wrinkled like yours. A strong differentiation is the spines present throughout the fruit. Do you know if there is a prickly variety? Thank you.
Yes, there's a prickly variety or Spanish chayote
Hi,
Please share, How can you protect it from snow? Thanks
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Great video! Here in the SE United States we grow them and call them Mirlitons. Their are several "varieties" that have been propagated by families or in certain areas, which have created vines better suited to our particular environment. While the imported ones from the grocery store will grow, they do not do nearly as well as the local ones.
I used to eat mirlitons in LA as a kid-where do you find local fruits to sprout? I have tried twice from a grocery store fruit I sprouted, and it died each time after I planted it out.
To much talking..show what to do n how..boring..
@@awkwardtexasstranger5660 you have to look for growers. There is a network of growers that sell or give out mirlitons to grow. You can find it online, just look for milliton landrace seeds.
I planted a choko plant last year. It grew so lush but I was disappointed it did not produce any fruit. What did I do wrong?
Does that mean it’s too late for me to start a choko now? It’s e third one I’m trying to start. I’m not sure what’s wrong
I kept having trouble getting them to sprout also and I just got one finally after putting it in a paper bag and in a lower cabinet in my kitchen ! I planted it in the garden and am hopeful!
What's the chance of having a white choko mailed to me? I'd love to grow the white variety but only seen green around here. I'll pay for it. 😊
Hi thank you for your info of how to grow chayote fr. fruit . I have just potted my fruit into a container a bit larger than yours. I am encountering a problem that the leaves on the new shoot ais drying up and cannot grow into a bigger size before it’s brittle into pieces when I rubbed it
Is it normal or sick? I am now having it grow under two fluorescent shop light in the kitchen area. Do you think it will die. It is only January 23 in Vancouver BC . I still have to grow it indoor for at lease few more months. The young shoot is about 24 inches high now and was looking really health with a lot of small leaves and loops . I have it planted three weeks ago and all of a sudden it seem slow down and stop . But I notice a second small young shoot is appearing from the fruit
Please give me some ideas of what happen
You help is greatly appreciated
Thank you for your careful explanation of how to grow choko. I keep losing mine and now I know why! I plant them out far too soon in our damp Auckland spring. I will be potting up and holding off planting out in the garden until it is warmer this season. I can't wait to try the choko shoot stir fry, it looks fantastic. I love your garden and you've inspired me to put more vertical structures in my own to catch more canopy light. ☀🌳🫒🍎Sending good growing vibes from across the Tasman.
links you said were above weren't there, only about fruit???
I googled Moth Vine, I'm safe ✌
Hello. Can you please tell me where i can buy white chokos
we call this christophine in St Lucia.
Do possums go for the choko fruit? I have possums in my area
Not that I've observed. They do seem to enjoy the young tender growth of the vine though.
Wich month i have to put seeds in the soil please let me know thank you
Very good explanation exellent, but listen you can seed it.
Avocado can you show how you grow it
My cheyote vine has been growing for a long time but hasn't given any fruits. Flowers come but they are not turning into fruits. Recently I have kept the pot in full sunlight
must pollinate female flowers with male flowers
if you do not have bees or other pollinators, you csn do this by hand
see other RUclipss for this :)
Shuihhh 😂can I buy the white one from you? Please let me know how much ?
We also eat the tips..
Kerennn,,,
Do you grow Mullin
Hi there, can anyone please tell me where I can buy choko vines in Victoria
What zone are you in
🌷
Mine had no seed
We call it christophene
Chayote have great texture, but little or no flavor IMO. They add nice bulk and texture to a dish, but seriously ... NOBODY has cravings for them like they do for fruits n veg that actually have flavor.
Seriously, unless you have a fairly broad and skillful repertoire of sauces (which I do) they're hard to justify a spot in one's garden.
Im going to grow one this year, just as a supplement to my chinese bitter melons ... but just 1.
Recipes please
I live in India
Please advise
Winter dead no use
All those effort to water
I got my choko from spudshed
too long. play on fast speed
It's not Chor Kors, it's Cho Ko, no R's in it.
This is not true
Too much talking little content go to the points and cut the video to less than 10 minutes so you don’t waste people time
Moth Vine: AKA Araujia sericifera: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araujia_sericifera
Hi can you please tell me where i can buy white chokos please?