Many thanks for watching and the message, much appreciated. Such a tasty fruit, I just wish they were easier to grow in the U.K. climate. Hope you’re having a good weekend 🌸🍈
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@@diyhomeandgardening you have a good weekend too. thanks
Thank you! I ‘m a Brit living in northern Portugal and just bought one of these as a plant! I’m now going to look for a bigger spot to grow this as I’ve seen just how big they can get in the ground! I followed your sowing and growing the pepino melon or pera melão as they are called here! I’ve never tasted one but can’t wait to try a nice mature fruit!
Ooh lucky you living in Portugal. Yeah Pepino do make quite a sizeable shrub, well in hotter climates. You will love the taste, just wait for them to soften as they get sweeter then.
Have you grown then in 2022? And do you have a video on how you've overwinterd them? I'm about to transplant the biggest of the 2 I've grown from seeds and trying to decide how big a pot I'll use. I'm in Belgium...
Hi. Thanks for your message and watching. I gave away the plants last year as didn’t have enough space for everything. To overwinter I kept them in the house, just allowing them to dry out a bit between watering. For the start of last growing season the plants went into larger 4 or 4.5. Litre sized pots. Hope that helps you
@@diyhomeandgardening ah, I know about the puzzling with space 😏 since I have a small city garden Are these thirsty plants? I'm going to trellis at least one of them
@@veraw2121 they form a woody shrub so you don’t need to worry about trellis supports etc. They don’t need lots of water until they start fruiting but then need a decent amount of fertiliser
@@marcorivas6363 Hi Marco. Many thanks for watching the video and for your question. I actually purchased the seeds from a seller on eBay as I couldn’t find a U.K. seller, at the time, but was keen to try growing the plants. In a hotter climate than the U.K. then the plants would get significantly bigger so I imagine the fruit would also be larger too. I don’t know if there are other varieties of Pepino to try but one more suited to cooler climates would be good. All the best with your growing 🍈🪴
They really are tasty. In a normal season, as the fruit gets darker yellow in colour the fruit gets sweeter. Unfortunately this year has been a bit too cool for the fruit to get really sweet but they are still decent to eat.
I just found your channel and subscribed. I got some pepino cuttings from a neighbor and put them in water to root and today I was going to up-pot them into a 1 gallon pot each. I'm curious do you have any tips on how to get them to fruit in the first year, and what size of pot do you recommend for the final plant size? Also where are you located? I'm in Northern California Zone 9B and hoping I can grow Pepino successfully here in my hot dry climate.
Hi. Firstly thanks for your message and for subscribing to my channel, much appreciated. Okay, so I’m based in South East of the U.K. which is zone 8 so you will have absolutely no trouble at all in growing Pepino plants and getting them to fruit. Mine were grown in a 4litre pot which is about 23cm, although by the end of the season I wished I had gone a bit bigger. The plants did well for me on a diet of pelleted chicken manure once a month, April to September, with supplementary liquid feeds during the summer of tomato feed. Basically a feed high in Potash. Keeping them on the moist side during the growing season seemed to help them. Good luck as they are very tasty. Just remember that they form a shrub like plant so can easily be overwintered if they don’t fruit this year.
@@diyhomeandgardening super helpful, thanks so much. I might be checking back here for advice as the plants start to grow. Thank you for your thoughtful response and for all your wonderful content.
Hi. Without knowing where you live it’s hard to recommend specifically. In the U.K. Marshall seeds offer Pepino seeds, as do Plant World. Alternatively, EBay have lots of seed sellers selling Pepino. Hope this helps you 🍈
@@diyhomeandgardening I'm all the way in Jamaica, but I'm trying to order it for my family in Florida. I've been burnt by ebay one too many times tbh. Thank you for the help nonetheless.
Beautiful fruit
Many thanks for watching and the message, much appreciated.
Such a tasty fruit, I just wish they were easier to grow in the U.K. climate.
Hope you’re having a good weekend 🌸🍈
@@diyhomeandgardening you have a good weekend too. thanks
Thank you! I ‘m a Brit living in northern Portugal and just bought one of these as a plant! I’m now going to look for a bigger spot to grow this as I’ve seen just how big they can get in the ground! I followed your sowing and growing the pepino melon or pera melão as they are called here! I’ve never tasted one but can’t wait to try a nice mature fruit!
Ooh lucky you living in Portugal.
Yeah Pepino do make quite a sizeable shrub, well in hotter climates.
You will love the taste, just wait for them to soften as they get sweeter then.
Have you grown then in 2022? And do you have a video on how you've overwinterd them?
I'm about to transplant the biggest of the 2 I've grown from seeds and trying to decide how big a pot I'll use. I'm in Belgium...
Hi. Thanks for your message and watching.
I gave away the plants last year as didn’t have enough space for everything.
To overwinter I kept them in the house, just allowing them to dry out a bit between watering.
For the start of last growing season the plants went into larger 4 or 4.5. Litre sized pots.
Hope that helps you
@@diyhomeandgardening ah, I know about the puzzling with space 😏 since I have a small city garden
Are these thirsty plants? I'm going to trellis at least one of them
@@veraw2121 they form a woody shrub so you don’t need to worry about trellis supports etc.
They don’t need lots of water until they start fruiting but then need a decent amount of fertiliser
HI, Thanks for sharing your video. I'm peruvian, I 've never seen that kind of very small pepino. Could you please point me where to find seeds?
@@marcorivas6363 Hi Marco. Many thanks for watching the video and for your question.
I actually purchased the seeds from a seller on eBay as I couldn’t find a U.K. seller, at the time, but was keen to try growing the plants.
In a hotter climate than the U.K. then the plants would get significantly bigger so I imagine the fruit would also be larger too.
I don’t know if there are other varieties of Pepino to try but one more suited to cooler climates would be good.
All the best with your growing 🍈🪴
looks delicious!!
They really are tasty. In a normal season, as the fruit gets darker yellow in colour the fruit gets sweeter. Unfortunately this year has been a bit too cool for the fruit to get really sweet but they are still decent to eat.
I just found your channel and subscribed. I got some pepino cuttings from a neighbor and put them in water to root and today I was going to up-pot them into a 1 gallon pot each. I'm curious do you have any tips on how to get them to fruit in the first year, and what size of pot do you recommend for the final plant size? Also where are you located? I'm in Northern California Zone 9B and hoping I can grow Pepino successfully here in my hot dry climate.
Hi. Firstly thanks for your message and for subscribing to my channel, much appreciated.
Okay, so I’m based in South East of the U.K. which is zone 8 so you will have absolutely no trouble at all in growing Pepino plants and getting them to fruit.
Mine were grown in a 4litre pot which is about 23cm, although by the end of the season I wished I had gone a bit bigger.
The plants did well for me on a diet of pelleted chicken manure once a month, April to September, with supplementary liquid feeds during the summer of tomato feed. Basically a feed high in Potash.
Keeping them on the moist side during the growing season seemed to help them.
Good luck as they are very tasty.
Just remember that they form a shrub like plant so can easily be overwintered if they don’t fruit this year.
@@diyhomeandgardening super helpful, thanks so much. I might be checking back here for advice as the plants start to grow. Thank you for your thoughtful response and for all your wonderful content.
@@GreenLove1. No problem at all and I hope you do pop back to watch other things.
Yes you can zone 9 is min
Thanks for the added information 🌸
Please, does anyone know a reliable site where I can buy these seeds??? Amazon is not an option. Those aren't the real seeds
Hi. Without knowing where you live it’s hard to recommend specifically.
In the U.K. Marshall seeds offer Pepino seeds, as do Plant World.
Alternatively, EBay have lots of seed sellers selling Pepino.
Hope this helps you 🍈
@@diyhomeandgardening I'm all the way in Jamaica, but I'm trying to order it for my family in Florida. I've been burnt by ebay one too many times tbh. Thank you for the help nonetheless.
@@chmchn I know the feeling about eBay but generally with seeds, so long as they are in sealed packets, you should be okay.
That looks like eggplants.
Hi. Thanks for your message.
In the U.K. eggplant is the common name for Aubergine which is totally different. The problem with common names I guess.