The picture is part of the thread "Unidentified Fruit" posted by me on Dec 18th 2005. If you search for "chayote" in "plant identification", you...
From my research last year, there are different varieties in terms of skin colour and the presence or absence of spines (there is a picture of the...
The chayote is not really like a squash - closer to the cucumber family - its fruit hang downward from climbing vines, like cucumbers etc....
OK - for anyone who is confused, I think (hope) you are talking here about the ex-chayote rather than the dahlia. Mine grew very vigorously in...
I have a question about a very strange looking dahlia seedling, with spiky edges to the leaves. Sorry - the photograph is at the limits of...
An update on the chayote: It survived the winter indoors, and is presently taking over my greenhouse! However, although numerous fruit flowers...
Fun with your chayote: For those of you who are now growing or thinking of growing these plants, I offer the following observations: If you can...
Here is the picture for Deborah! You can see one of the secondary growth tendrils at the top, and the fruit just protruding from the soil. Good...
I thought you might be amused to learn that the British Royal Horticultural Society finally got round to identifying the plant as a chayote (in...
OK. I had to pinch out the growing tip today, since the plant exceeded the 3-foot limit. I warned it what would happen, but it didn't listen!...
Deborah: When you grew one in the house, did you have to pinch out the growing tip? If so, did it then start to grow from the side-shoots? I...
I have similar worries, but mostly about it starting to head for my beer cupboard! Joe
Well, it is certainly growing strongly - about 7 cm (2.75 inches) per day and now over 60 cm (2 feet) in height. In general, it looks similar to a...
Thanks Dee, It looks as though the fruit vary in colour, presence/absence of spines etc., but the ones indicated by the red arrow in the...
