Varieties
Pepino
Variety
Pepino
created by Svenja S. at 01.02.2021
Seed packet
Cultivation Break
3 Years
Season Overview
Propagating
Planting
Harvest
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Description
Delicious snack fruit with a pleasant sweet-fruity taste. For hanging baskets, containers on balconies and terraces, for greenhouses. Self-pollinating.
Non hybrid
Not frost resistant
Growing tips
Can only withstand 12 degrees plus, so must be wintered indoors (cuttings) or reseeded.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Nutrient requirement
High
Light germinator
Germination temperature
20 - 25 °C (Degrees Celsius)
Plant distance
60 cm
Row spacing
80 cm
Seeding depth
1 cm
Companion Plants
Antagonistic Plants
Diseases
Brown rot
Pests
Spider mites
Leaf-miner flies
Ten-lined potato beetle
Aphids
White fly
