How to grow pepino wrong fruit in potted plants for every home

Not picky soil, just water regularly and ensure no waterlogging is a very simple principle so you can successfully plant a pepino melon pots.

Melon Penino

Called "sang chau " melon because pepino is a kind of less melon exported because its fruit is very fast and difficult to preserve, it has a high cost so most of them abroad are grown in the locality by seedlings or seeds.

The pepino melon, also known as South American watermelon, is a small fruit tree about 200-300grams originating from South America. Because its taste is so delicious and sweet, there is another name in England called Sweet Cucumber .

Many housewives are very interested in learning and hunting seeds and seedlings for planting. The price offered for sale is 20,000 VND / seed germination, while seedlings from 15 days to 1 month old cost from 300,000 to 350,000 VND / tree.

The pepino melon is a short-harvested and high-yielding tree, so many housewives love to grow.

How to grow watermelon South America

Before sowing, you can soak seeds into warm water at the rate of 2 cold 3 cold and leave overnight, then sow directly into the soil, cover with a thin layer of soil, water twice a day in the morning - afternoon to keep soil moist

When seedlings have 4 - 5 true leaves, 10-12 cm tall, healthy, fat stems can be pulled out to plant pots.

In particular, due to the growth characteristics can withstand the weather from -2 degrees Celsius to 29 degrees Celsius, melon can be grown in pots, greenhouses, independent growing and pollinating flowers .

Therefore, not only gardeners in Da Lat (Lam Dong), Sapa (Lao Cai) racing to import this variety to plant but also many people in big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City also bought to plant and grow. Bonsai plants, ornamental plants in the family.

Pepino tolerates most types of soil, but requires new continuous moisture for good fruit yields. Pepino melons are drought tolerant, but this often affects yield.

Mature pepino can be up to 2m tall and, if carefully cared for, its harvest can be 2 to 3 times higher than natural planting.

This melon has the same care as the tomato family. South American watermelons are not picky and need to be watered regularly and make sure that they are not inundated.

Plants do not need to pollinate to produce fruit, although pollination will yield higher yields. And also because of this characteristic you can grow pepino melon anywhere in the house

Pepino melon is grown and cared for as tomato. It can grow naturally upright or have a support to keep the weight of the fruit from pulling the tree down too low.

Pepino melon has a rapid growth rate and results in 2-6 months after planting. Depending on the way of care, each pepino melon tree can give from 80 to 120 fruits / crop.

When planting pepino, you should note that this is the same variety as the tomato family, eggplant ., which are extremely attractive characteristics for beetles, aphids, white flies and spiders.