Simple way to grow chayote for delicious meals at home
Simple way to grow chayote for delicious meals at home
Chayote is rich in nutrients and can be processed into many delicious dishes. Not only that, growing chayote at home is also extremely simple. With just a little time and effort, you will have a clean source of chayote to serve your family’s meals. Refer to the chayote planting instructions here.
Details on how to grow chayote simply and correctly for big, fast-growing fruits
Growing from fruit in foam containers
Prepare
• Humus
• Fertilizer
• Pesticides
• Chayote 4 – 5 fruits
Doing
• Step 1: Prepare soil for growing chayote with ingredients such as silt, coconut fiber, and vermicompost in the ratio 6 Alluvial soil: 3 Coconut fiber: 10 vermicompost
• Step 2: Dig a hole in the soil 40 – 50cm wide and correspondingly deep
• Step 3: Put 1 – 2 chayote fruits into the hole
• Step 4: Cover with soil, then press gently
• Step 5: Water the plants
• Step 6: When you see that the tree is about 30cm tall, make a trellis for the tree to climb up
• Step 7: Fertilize the tree every 10 days to help it grow quickly
• Step 8: During the growing process of chayote, you need to pay attention to detect insect attacks because they can cause the tree trunk to become stunted and lacking in nutrients.
• Step 9: After 2 – 3 months of planting, the fruit is about 7cm big, you can proceed to harvest
• Prepare a large pot, 30cm or more in diameter and 25cm or more in depth
• Alluvial soil, sawdust
• Fertilizer
• Pesticides
• Rake the soil
• Seeds
Doing
• Step 1: Fertilize the base of the chayote tree with a mixture of 2kg of manure, 100 grams of super phosphate and alluvial soil. Fill the bucket completely and keep it 5 – 7 cm from the top
• Step 2: Place the rubber tree in the center of the foam box, keeping the tree upright
• Step 3: Spread soil and fertilizer around the chayote tuber, compact the soil
• Step 4: Water to keep the plant moist
• Step 5: When the plant has 5 – 6 leaves, proceed to make a trellis for the plant to climb
• Step 6: Water twice a day
• Step 7: When you see the plant starting to take root, water the base with fertilizer
• Step 8: Periodically fertilize chayote every 20 – 25 days to help the plant produce high yields and achieve the best growing efficiency.
• Step 9: When the tree has been planted for 60 days and bears fruit, you can proceed to harvest.
How to grow chayote for the tops
Unlike chayote for fruit, growing chayote for tops will focus on the process of stimulating the plant to grow stems and leaves. As follows:
Prepare the soil
• Soil needs to be dried to ensure no pathogens remain
• Mix soil with composted manure or organic fertilizer (Ratio: 4 parts soil: 1 part fertilizer)
• Use a rake to loosen the soil thoroughly to help the soil have a certain level of porosity Doing
• Step 1: Dig a hole about 40cm x 40cm wide
• Step 2: Add the chayote tuber, place the sprouts facing up, only fill halfway with soil, then stop.
• Step 3: Water every day in the early morning and late afternoon
• Step 4: When chayote begins to climb the trellis, cut off the leaves at the base
• Step 5: If you see the plant blooming, you need to cut off the flowers to focus on nurturing the sturdy top
• Step 6: Fertilizing every 15 days will help create more nutrients for the plant
• Step 7: Chayote shoots grow in the armpit, you can harvest after 10 – 12 days
• Step 8: When cutting the tops, just cut the portion that fits, don’t cut too close to the stem
Why doesn’t the chayote tree produce fruit?
It can be seen that to grow chayote and produce lots of fruit, you will need to be really patient in caring for and fertilizing. However, if the chayote tree has not produced fruit for a long time, the cause may come from:
• Nutritional deficiency
• Pest attack
• Chayote has weak roots
• Planting time is not appropriate
• Watering too little or too much
Detailed instructions on how to care for chayote plants grown at home simply
After successfully growing chayote, you must maintain proper tree care to keep the chayote healthy, bear fruit quickly and achieve high yields. So how to care for chayote plants grown at home?
• Pay attention to properly shading the plants: When first planted, you should pay attention to shading the plants so they can grow quickly. When the tree is about 1.5m tall, start staking the tree to climb the trellis. When the tree reaches a growth rate of 1.8m-2m, there must be a high trellis for the tree to live on.
• Level the vines evenly, do not beat the branches, pinch the top of the tree similar to planting gourds or squash.
• Fertilize at the right time: There are two important times that you need to pay special attention to in order to properly fertilize chayote, which are when the plant starts growing on the trellis and when the plant is harvested to help keep the chayote fruit strong. Beautiful shine and no premature shedding.
Above are detailed and simple instructions on how to grow chayote, anyone can do it and have a high level of success.
