Melon pear

[radders60]

Hello everybody
This is my first post so no laughing .I got hooked on growing veg and fruit last year with some good and bad results. My wife who is keen to get me out of the house as much as possible seems to be buying me all sorts of wild and wonderfull things One of these is a melon pear bush/tree not sure its about 12 inch tall looks healthy but i have not got a clue what to do with it any helpers please.

[lottie dolly]

hello radders60,welcome to the forum,as no one has come up with anything,i typed in melonpear on google search engine,it did come up with things,it's best if you look yourself and see if anything fits in with what you have,if not,i would go to,or ring a good nursery, all the best.

[Two_Sheds]

does this help: pepino

I grew one in 2005, but it died. apparently they take years to fruit, if they ever do. they are totally unsuitable to the UK, even in a greenhouse, because we don't have enough long-sunlight days for it.

from Google: "In 2007 I tried growing these from seed for the first time, but it wasn't successful."

and another grower: "only one fruit from eight plants," he says gloomily." Not just a bunch of peanuts - Telegraph

[Shortie]

Thanks Two_sheds... You've just confirmed my "mystery seedlings" as my pepinos

The writing washed off all my labels so I know my 6x varieties of toms are toms from teh leaves but couldn't suss out if the 'bay leaf' shaped one was pepino or not as it's the first year I've grown them

[realfood]

For those of you that visited my web page noted above by two sheds, I can update you on this years crop of pepinos. Starting from cuttings in December, planted out in a cool greenhouse in April, the first fruits have now set. I think that there is a good chance that they will ripen in the Autumn.
I have given cuttings to some of the other plotters on our site and we will see how they get on.
I see that Lidle were selling pepino plants earlier this year. Has anyone bought one of those and are they setting fruit yet?

[parrot1974]

I bought my Pepino Melon Pear about 3 years ago on e-bay as a young plant. It has flowered but not fruited before but seems happier now that it's in my unheated (but very warm) greenhouse. I think the reason mine has been reluctant to fruit is that I've not bothered giving it as much tomato feed as it needs, but it's a fairly strong plant and can survive a few knock-backs. Very easy to make cuttings from them - they root quickly in water, so once you've got one there should be no need to buy any more!