The first year is already fruitful
The melon pear is a secondary plant, like the potato or tomato that has been known and grown for ages. According to her sowing respectively. planting it grows as fast as this one. If you give it the warmest and sunniest place in the garden, a lush one is waiting for you in the first year harvest on them.
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The melon pear, also called pepino, is usually grown in a bucket due to its sensitivity to cold, with which it spends the summer outside. If the bucket is also sunny and protected and the Pepino gets enough care, ripe fruits can be expected even with this type of cultivation.
Annual harvest when overwintered
The Pepino is not hardy, hence it can only be grown as an annual outdoors. However, if you have a bright and around 5 to 10 ° C cool room for wintering, the plant will grow over several years and will give you new fruit every year.
Late harvest time
To the bloom does it take on average approx. 90 days to the fruit ripe and are ready to harvest. Then it is already late summer. A possible cultivation in the greenhouse may contribute to a slightly earlier start of the harvest.
Fruit blessings also in winter quarters
Depending on the weather, the melon pear may have to move into its winter quarters early. There might still be some unripe fruit hanging on it. She can continue to wear them because they can also be used in the house to ripen.
Temperature kills the harvest
The melon pear is self-pollinating, but warm days and nights are also necessary for the fruit set. Min. This plant needs 18 ° C for it to bear fruit. At pollination time, it cannot always get this value in this country.
So it can bear greater fruit
The Pepino can also bear a lot of fruit in this country. You can get larger specimens not only in a good location, but also with suitable cutting measures:
- all flowerless side shoots maxed out
- Shorten long flower stems
Depending on the variety, the fruits then reach a length of up to 20 cm and a weight of up to 300 grams.
Tips
Only harvest ripe fruits that exude a sweetish scent and the flesh of which gives way when you press your finger, because they have the best aroma. Unripe fruits can ripen at room temperature.
