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Jelly melon "Kiwano" (African cucumber)
Jelly melon "Kiwano" (African cucumber)
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Cucumis metuliferus E.Mey
3.28€
Ex Tax: 2.65€
Ex Tax: 2.65€
Antillean cucumber (Kiwano) or African cucumber (Horned melon) - Cucumis metuliferus.
A powerful herbaceous vine with many lateral shoots (capable of growing in width and height up to 5-6 m) and dark green fruits, resembling hedgehogs with large fleshy spines.
The average fruit weight is 300 g, and the average length is 12 cm. The fruits are unusually decorative and can be used to create original compositions and even as Christmas tree decorations.
Anguria in your apartment can become an interesting part of the interior and serve as a beautiful still life.
The skin of the Antillean cucumber becomes dense over time, so it can be stored for a long time at room temperature (at least until the New Year).
When stored, the fruits acquire a bright yellow-orange color. When young, anguria fruits have a cucumber-like flavor and are used in salads, pickles, and other dishes.
This plant is dioecious, with distinct male and female flowers, and requires insect or manual pollination. The seeds are round.
The plant is quite heat-loving, does not tolerate frost and prolonged cold weather when young, but becomes more cold-resistant in adulthood.
Grown from seedlings. To accelerate fruiting, the technique of pinching lateral shoots to produce fruit can be used.
1 g = 45-60 seeds.
A powerful herbaceous vine with many lateral shoots (capable of growing in width and height up to 5-6 m) and dark green fruits, resembling hedgehogs with large fleshy spines.
The average fruit weight is 300 g, and the average length is 12 cm. The fruits are unusually decorative and can be used to create original compositions and even as Christmas tree decorations.
Anguria in your apartment can become an interesting part of the interior and serve as a beautiful still life.
The skin of the Antillean cucumber becomes dense over time, so it can be stored for a long time at room temperature (at least until the New Year).
When stored, the fruits acquire a bright yellow-orange color. When young, anguria fruits have a cucumber-like flavor and are used in salads, pickles, and other dishes.
This plant is dioecious, with distinct male and female flowers, and requires insect or manual pollination. The seeds are round.
The plant is quite heat-loving, does not tolerate frost and prolonged cold weather when young, but becomes more cold-resistant in adulthood.
Grown from seedlings. To accelerate fruiting, the technique of pinching lateral shoots to produce fruit can be used.
1 g = 45-60 seeds.
Antillean cucumber Kiwano, Anguria. Bot.syn.: Cucumis tinneanus Kotshy et Peyritsch.
* Jelly melon (Kiwano) - a plant that is a 3-5-meter vine with thin furrowed stems. Blooms profusely with male and female flowers.
Kiwano fruit is yellow, orange or red in color. The length of the fruit reaches 15 cm.
The peel is hard, leathery, covered with soft spikes, and inside the fruit is a jelly-like green pulp with pale green seeds.
Hedged gourd tastes like lime and banana at the same time. From it you can cook jam or pickles.
Fruits contain few calories, so for those who want to lose weight - just a godsend.
In addition, it contains a lot of vitamin PP and ascorbic acid. This exotic can also be grown in Estonia.
Seeds are placed for a day in a damp cloth. Then they are sown in pots with a light nutrient mixture. Plant outdoors only after the threat of frost has passed.
The place is chosen sunny, high, protected from the wind. Since the kiwano is a large vine, it needs props.
And if you build trellises for her, then such landings will look very attractive.
If you do not have the opportunity to plant this horned melon in open ground, then do not worry, you can grow it right on your balcony!
Just plant the plant in a large container (7-20 liters). This volume will be enough for top dressing every 12-15 days.
Despite the fact that this is a heat-loving plant, in the daytime it is better to cover it from the scorching sun in order to avoid burns on the leaves.
