Sechium edule 'White'
White Chayote
Squashes are used as vegetables, but are, strictly speaking, fruit. They come in many forms - and there are Summer varieties as well as Winter varieties. Most squashes grow on vines, but a few in a shrubby form. They are all relatively easy to grow. 'Chayote' is an edible gourd that grows on a cold-sensitive plant, so in colder climes is grown indoors. The flowers usually appear in early Autumn, and the fruiting can last for several months, given the warmth and plentiful watering they require. The fruit are pear-shaped, with light green smooth skin. If grown up a trellis this plant can grow up to 10 m. 'White Chayote' is a white-coloured variety
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
White Chayote
Latin name
Sechium edule 'White'
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
0.20 M
Sechium edule 'White'
Squashes are used as vegetables, but are, strictly speaking, fruit. They come in many forms - and there are Summer varieties as well as Winter varieties. Most squashes grow on vines, but a few in a shrubby form. They are all relatively easy to grow. 'Chayote' is an edible gourd that grows on a cold-sensitive plant, so in colder climes is grown indoors. The flowers usually appear in early Autumn, and the fruiting can last for several months, given the warmth and plentiful watering they require. The fruit are pear-shaped, with light green smooth skin. If grown up a trellis this plant can grow up to 10 m. 'White Chayote' is a white-coloured variety
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, and after all danger of frost has passed, plant the seedlings out into a prepared bed or hill that has been well-manured, at a spacing of about 3' for bush types, and 5' for trailing types.
niching