Growing Chokos

[Marilyn]

Hi all,
has anyone tried growing chokos. I thought I would try by growing in a corner of a gb and letting it vine out on a rope trellis so it would be in full sun.
Thanks Marilyn.

[GaryD]

HI Marilyn,

We grew a choko vine a couple of years ago. They produce an enormous amount of chokos....they have a bland zucchini taste.

When I was a kid, the women used to bottle them in a sugar syrup and they were then known as mock pears.

Gary

[Dufflight]

Grow them in twos. I'v got mine in the back yard and if how they go in soil is any indicator they will go wild in AP. Don't know how the roots grow on them.

[Marilyn]

Thanks,
Ijust love chokos and will cook up a pot of them just for myself with lashings of butter. In the supermarkets up here they have been over $5 a kilo so we haven't been having them at that price. I've tried growing them in the ground but they never wantd to grow very well.

Yes, Gary I cook them with fresh pears in sugar water and then you can't taste the difference. I have also heard that commercially they do this as well and sell the cans as pears with no mention of the substitute.

[Dufflight]

I like to plant them on there side. I think the roots and stem come out of the top. Let them shoot before you plant them.

[BARRAMUNDI BRETT'O]

Did somebody say the dreaded choko word,here i go again back to counselling.when I was about eight I climbed onto the roof of my grandfathers greyhound shed to get some choko's for that nights baked dinner,and fell clear through it,landing on my pop's fave dog,I screamed the dog howled and went on to have a good taste of my left leg whick he promptly spat back out,off to the hospital for some stiches, an x-ray on the rapidly swelling ankle.I survived but break out into a cold sweat at the dreaded choko word,the dog ( fast saphire)was unnafected and went on to be the australasian dog of the year in 1980 or there about's.I have to go and lay down now I dont feel to well SEE YA'S

[anniefish]

Chuckle, chuckle, yep reminds me of the time I climbed on to the chook shed roof to get the best mulberries off the branches that were over the roof. Of course, the roof wasn't made for walking on, so I fell through. No great damage to me (or the chooks) but I suspect they went off the lay for a bit.
chicken licken would have had a coronary though, (the sky is falling).

I love chokos, I think they are one of those veges you either love or hate. Yes, they are bland but lashings of butter and salt and pepper mmm mmmm. Good luck Marilyn, I grew my first successful choko last year, they need plenty of water so should be the preverbial bean stork in AP.

I've heard abot them being used for pears as well. I'm sure I've come across them, if you know, you can tell the difference.

[Murray]

I have a choko ready to plant out somewhere. I need to put it into one corner of a grow bed. I reckon it might go mad.

I don;t mind a choko or two, but it is not the kind of veggie that one can get all emotional about.....not like tomatoes ..

[Hamish]

I thought chokos only grew over the top of outhouses

[GaryD]

Hamish,

I thought chokos only grew over the top of outhouses

It had me puzzled for a while and then I figured it out. The psychodelic dye in the purple hat leached out and soaked into your brain.

Gary