It took 2 years for my little Bunnings plant to establish and finally flower. For this reason, they are valuable as lower canopy plants in a food forest. The pepino dulce is relatively hardy. Then increase the time by 1 2 hours each day. You need to be a member of Brisbane Local Food to add comments! Pepino melons, tree melons, pear melons and melon pears are all the same fruit. The leaves should not touch the water. Pepino grow and care - shrub of the genus Solanum also known as Pepino melon or pepino dulce, Pepino is perennial evergreen plant, grow in mediterranean, subtropical, tropic climate and growing in hardiness zone 10b+. Bunnings lists them online but no store I've been to has them or can tell me any stores that do. Solanum muricatum - Wikipedia This provides your plant a loose soil with high compost content, which stores water, but prevents waterlogging. For the municipality in Toledo, see, Blanca, Jos M.; Prohens, Jaime; Anderson, Gregory J.; Zuriaga, Elena; Caizares, Joaqun & Nuez, Fernando, California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. (CRFG), "Solanum muricatum Aiton the Plant List", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solanum_muricatum&oldid=1147490648, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 31 March 2023, at 09:04. Basic HTML is allowed. How is yours doing. It should come off after a few tugs. Its a shrubby climber or ground creeper originally from South America. In shade, they are drought-tolerant and we watered ours only a few times all summer. Egg shaped fruit turning yellow with purple stripes when ripe. You can get some here from Green Harvest. Plant is just straight forward and easy to grow, fruits almost instantly, never actually tasted the fruit but have some growing now to see if it's worth keeping one around or not. If you grow the cuttings in water, place them in a glass jar with water and put them in a bright spot without direct sunlight. Looks like it will strike cuttings easy too so will be doing that to share this beauty with my friends. The foliage looks very similar to that of the potato plant while its growth habit is akin to that of a tomato, and for this reason, may often require staking. I have never heard of this fruit before thanks for all the information I love to learn new things. They are so vigorous I've got to cut my bush in half and discard half of it every year. Other names it can go by are sweet cucumber and melon pear. How long did it last as a perennial? Did it fruit well? Hello Hannah, what a surprise to find you have a web site! Tiny enough to grow in small backyards but the fruit size is still large. 100mm Pepino El Camino - Solanum El Camino (0) $7.87.