Chayote Plant Photos

This year, 2013, is the second year of our two chayote plant in our small patio. Last year went crazy with both chayote's grasping, and climbing into anything they could reach into. It's like a blink of an eye and they're all over the place. We have a trellis my dad had built for one chayote, and for the other chayote plant, I made its own trellis, and for this year too. It got out of hand by Summer last year as we hadn't keep a close eye on them, so this year, hope we can have both under control, and that means by harvesting the chayote shoots and guiding them where to climb.

Here's a photo of one of our chayote plant on its trellis from last year, 2012. For more photos along with other plants we have on our container garden, you can stop by on my article titled, "Container Gardening: Plants At The Patio." 

We had harvested many chayote fruits, and mostly twins plus the chayote shoots that mom cooks with other vegetables mixed together, either on pinakbet or denengdeng dish of the Ilocanos.

Here's a twin chayote fruit we had from last year with some young clusters of young male chayote flowers.

This twin chayote are still young, but they are already bigger than the chayote I usually see on the market. And greener too.

For this year, I am looking forward into seeing more of this twin chayote's. Both plants are as lively as last year and grasping into anything the tendrils can get hold off.

Here's photo of this year's chayote, 2013. One here as shown in the photo amazes me as I spotted this tendril holding onto the sleek fence.

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Some quick interesting facts about the chayote plant:

* Adding chayote into diet can help on lowering the cholesterol level.

* Chayote would grasp into anything and is a fast growing plant.

* The fruit, along with chayote shoots and even the tuberous part is consumed. 

* Other names the chayote is known are pear squash, vegetable squash, christophene, sayote, and chocho.

* Chayote, or known as sayote is 94% water. 

* Although we, or most of us call chayote as a vegetable, it is a fruit.