12/12/2024
Pepinos are finally starting to play ball. Theyve been flowering since mid spring, without any setting fruit due to the cold spring temps. At long last i can see one forming. The flowers look like purple tomato flowers, as theyre also part of the solanum family. The fruit is like a small melon, with thinner skin and fewer seeds. The bushes are meant to be "compact" but 1 is over a metre high and the other 2 sprawling all over the place. Which is fine, if they produce...or theyre out, joining bananas, naranjilla, gingko nut, babaco, orangeberry and dwarf anything which all failed to fruit and went the way of the mulcher.
