Momordica charantia 'Japanese Long'
Bitter Melon 'Japanese Long'
Bitter melon is grown like a cucumber, squash or any other cucurbita , except that it requires subtropical conditions. The fruit is spherical, and warty, and if left unpicked ripens from green to yellow to orange, and eventually splits to reveal bright red flesh containing seeds. If harvested the fruit is bitter, but used a lot in Asian cooking. 'Japanese Long' bears long fruits, 10"-13", with dark green skin.
Contributed by @niching
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Full sun
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Frequent watering
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Not Frost hardy
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Moist and fertile
Common name
Bitter Melon 'Japanese Long'
Latin name
Momordica charantia 'Japanese Long'
type
Vegetable
family
Cucurbitaceae
ph
5.5 - 6.8 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Moist and fertile
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Water
Frequent watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When to harvest
full grown dimensions
2.00 M
0.50 M
Momordica charantia 'Japanese Long'
Bitter melon is grown like a cucumber, squash or any other cucurbita , except that it requires subtropical conditions. The fruit is spherical, and warty, and if left unpicked ripens from green to yellow to orange, and eventually splits to reveal bright red flesh containing seeds. If harvested the fruit is bitter, but used a lot in Asian cooking. 'Japanese Long' bears long fruits, 10"-13", with dark green skin.
Propagating by seed
From Early Spring TO Late Spring
Prepare a bed or hill in a sunny site where the soil is fertile. Make planting pockets 3' apart by digging a hole a spade-depth, width and height, and filling with compost and well-rotted manure, then sow a seed on edge in each pocket. at a depth of about 1" after all danger of frost has passed.. Or sow the seeds singly in pots in the greenhouse, and plant out after they have their first true leaves
Planting
From Mid Spring TO Early Summer
After seeds grown indoors have their first true leaves plant the seedlings out into a prepared bed in the greenhouse or in a container to be grown in a conservatory - or outdoors if a high temperature can be maintained - this is a tropical plant, and needs tropical conditions!. Plant in full sun, and ensure the plant gets plenty of water
niching