Plant Choko | Grow a Choko Vine - it is so easy!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2020
- Growing a choko vine is so easy. It can be cooked in so many ways, and is an essential vegetable for anybody interested in home-grown vegetables. In this short video we’ll share everything you need to know about how to plant a choko from fruit, and grow your own choko vine along a fence or trellis. Also, Mary-Ann lets us in on the many ways that she uses choko in the kitchen.
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Have you tried growing choko before? Any tips to share? Please leave a comment below so we can keep growing together!
Please can you give me some recipes for this? Basically i've got them but loathe them and haven't eaten them in years. How can i best cook these, in your experience? Previously i probably would have used them in curries. I just don't feel like that now though. Caveats: the only appliances i have that seem to be functioning at the moment are a pair of air fryers.
I thought maybe they could be used like zucchini in a fritter but i'm not sure about grating them and don't have a blender. Unfortunately frying or steaming on a stovetop kinda isn't possible. And i do have a microwave, but in the last 48 hours or so, the kitchen fuse seems to trip every time i turn it on! So i'm not sure about that right now! But it doesn't seem like a vegetable that could be roasted in the air fryer. I do have a slow cooker i haven't yet used.
Not sure why i have a strong sense of dislike attached to it. Dunno if it's the texture. I don't recall a distinct taste. I never see them in recipes when i have browsed recipes. So since you made this video, i wonder what you think! How are you making use of them? Do you have any recommendations for storage? Cheers (:
Am in Albury and my white ones just arrived from Ebay will buy a green one at local green grocer, Can also eat the leaves and new shoots and
The seed in the middle too,
These will be great esp with food being so high and things in our world being so pear shaped now. Will share too, I was given some once but didn't know much about them so added to Spag bol to bulk up so excited to hear so many ways to use them and hear make a great mock apple pie 🥧 🍏🍅🚫😉🤣
i love how you got an old timer experienced lady farmer to be the 'expert' rather than making stuff up!
I am currently waiting for a Choko to finish sprouting to plant a new vine.- they are definitely used as fillers in Apple Pies. I use mine grated - granny smith apples & capsicum & onion - simmered in sugar syrup for 20mns in a capsicum relish- over some cream cheese WOW as a dip. Cheers Denise - Geebung Brisbane
Have you got the apple pie recipe cos I just bought me a glass pie dish to start making Pies 🥧
@@kahiakerei8743 I don't make the Apple Pie one I make a Capsicum relish.
I had a choko and didn't know what to do with it, but it's growing a plant now, so I'm excited to put it in the ground. And then I will learn how to eat it
Thank you for sharing this information about how to eat them too yum
Have just planted one here in New Zealand, keeping it inside in a pot over the cold winter and then will plant out in spring 🤞
I used to grow chokos when I was a primary school boy in Brisbane.I would sell them to neighbours etc. I've started growing them again down here in the Adelaide Hills. Great vegetables, very tasty. Thank you for this awesome trip down memory lane. God bless, Om River Christian channel.
Great segment, l love chokos and l definitely want to add them to my garden food bowl
Jodie! How do you cook these to find them palatable? In short, i remember disliking chokos but it would be economical for me to eat them in the interim. What's good, do you reckon?
Simple and easy thank you
They're great just steamed.
Thank you for this. Great advice.
Go choco 😁. Thanks
Thanks god i found your channel because i have no idea how to plant choco i have choco here but dont know how to plant them thanks for sharing this video .
I've tried to grow chokos several times. Now I know what I was doing wrong...I was putting them in a hole and covering them up. They grew a little and then died on me. I thought it was the soil. Thanks I will now try your method👍
I half-bury them horizontally. They develop roots really fast and this way also seems to be the most popular.
I've seen some people half bury them vertically too with the sprouting end facing up and the majority of the body in the soil. I haven't personally tried this method for myself though.
Other methods I've personally had success with is removing the entire fruit-body and planting only the seed that was inside. It grew really well.
One time I had a choko started rotting from an injury. By the time I removed the rotting fruit-body, the seed was also rotting. So I broke off the rotting seed-body and water propagated the sprout only. The sprout grew roots and I planted it like normal.
Choko have a strong will to live. I wish you much success. Best of luck and happy growing!
I remember grandfather had a Choko vine. He useto love adding it to lamb/ vegetable stews. it was deliciouse. So when i saw it in the supermarket i had to buy it. I didnt end up cooking it. And left it in the fruit bowl. well it sprouted like crazy. like it was begging me to plant it. so my first task tomorrow will be to plant the choko. It seems low maintenance. An extra bonus.
How did you go?
Thanks for serving suggestion! Although lamb is prob exxy in Aus at the mo. I am not a fan and have been wondering what the lesst offensive ways to serve it are. I can see that being a good option. I do have a slowcooker which i actually haven't used, partly just because of bench space/electrical outlet headaches. Maybe that would be a good option. Cheers!
Good in Gado Gado
Omg haven’t had Chokos since I was a kid living in Newcastle (Mayfield) our neighbours would have them grown on their fences, I just two days ago had a family member come for a quick visit & dropped in a jar of Choko Pickles from our childhood friend 🎉 it’s so yummy. Living in Queensland I don’t think I’ve ever seen one growing anywhere 😢 but there will be one soon 😇😊🥰 enjoyed this video.
Eating one as I watch this. Simply roasted with sea salt flakes and covered in olive oil
Oh true? So do they roast okay? Do you reckon this would work in an airfryer? How have you cut it up, if you have? Eg diced, halved, quartered. I wouldn't have thought they would roast decently. That's a ray of hope, i haven't tried that before. Did you take the seeds out? And are we talking eggplant quantities of olive oil, ie quite a lot because of spongey texture?
I find chokos are tastier when small, around egg size or a bit larger. The whole thing is tender then including the seed. They also may grow a tasty tuber. I have eaten a couple of them, quite nice.
Thanks Chris. I've never tried a small one but I'll do that next time. I have my first choko ready to plant in my garden.
Thanks for mentioning that, i had a small one i thought was too unripe to eat. How are you cooking these? Steam? What do you serve them with, if you don't mind sharing? I'm not a big fan, tbh, but it's gonna be economical for me to eat some for the timebeing. I'm just not really looking firward to it haha. I can't remember exactly why i have an aversion, but i haven't touched one in aeons. I have one in my kitchen and i just don't know what to do with it.
Use it like an apple or potato so think of things you would do with them. If you listen to the video again Maryanne gives you many suggestions & explains how they take on the flavours of other things. When I get mine going & get fruit I’m going to make Choko (potato) bake mmmmm can’t wait 😛
My mum is aaian she would put it in pork bone broth soup. Beautiful texture. It would really stand out.
I started looking for some to grow a year or so back after comparing several food crops that would make good use of the space in our backyard. I kept seeing them listed on supermarket store websites but have had no luck getting any in the local Wide Bay and Burnet region. There really needs to be more of a move to grow them for locals, especially given that they are a perennial, but I suppose that you don't transport well out of region, which makes them less viable for farmers. Still, Any vining plant that has a long history of provided a high yield and is hardy to boot is something that most people in the subtropics should consider growing. And you can't forget that the foliage makes for good livestock fodder, as well as for human food.
It's really good for you, it lowers your blood pressure.
I have sprouted white & green Choko, currently in pots ready to plant out. The white has gone crazy the sprout growing nearly 40cm in just over a week and with tendrils. Should I pinch out the growing tip to encourage side branching ? The green one is slower but leafier. I'm In Redlands Sth of Brisbane.
So if your choko is dying back coz it's winter - can I plant mine now? Winter in Brizzie here 2023. ❤️
Start of winter here in Sydney. Will a shoot survive if I place it on soil now? Thanks.
How long does it take from flowers forming until fruit ready to go? My Vine has just started flowering here in Melb and we are 1 month into Autumn already.
So will the shoot grow on a store bought choko? They seem very versatile and I want to grow them after I move.
@victoria thanks!
I have an Almond tree the is crying out for a choko vine , tis a bit cold now maybe in September I will plant one .
have two ready to go , still around September
Go the choko... we have two vines that just won't stop producing...hundreds apon hundreds
Are u kiwis. Aussie? Im kiwi canadian. Going to grow chokos this year.
Good stir fried or raw in salads
Thank you. Can you please describe how you're slicing them? I used to rely on them heavily when i didn't like them very much because of their affordability, a very long time ago, at which stage i probably had them in Thai curries. I would never ever have thought of eating them raw. Are you slicing thinly and discarding the seeds in both instances? Cheers!
@@mothratemporalradio517 I thinly slice them for salads, using them like a cucumber or even to diced to bulk up a fruit salad. Dice them for curries and stews etc and julienne them for stir fries. They can be used in jam and even pickled but I haven't tried doing that. I don't cut the seeds out, mainly because I can't be bothered. I find the seeds taste nutty and yummy.
When.?
My wine is 2 years old . No choko yet. It is growing well on a fence line . Old wine dies, new wines come up but no choko yet. Please help.
Hi do chokos grow in the Yorke Peninsula south australia?
I can’t see why not as long as your weather conditions are good, ( spring / summer) or try in a good size pot in a protected area with sunshine 🌞 , try planting a few of them in different locations and experiment to see what works where you live, I never just try one plant of anything , always try a few in different ways to see what will work better and to allow for failures .
Hi dude, they grow in Sydney. Conditions here are "temperate" but (much) more humid than SA generally. Yorke Peninsula could be more humid in its microclimate, because of the ocean.
However! The dry heat of the hottest summer days in SA - it might affect bud formation. But that doesn't mean you couldn't have a crack in autumn and spring - which seem a bit climate changey anyway,.so perhaps a bit warmer overall.
I'm not a fan of the veggie itself tbh but a vine could be an easy way to procure a source of food, which is good at times like this.
I cutopen and planted only the shoots. VINE is not yielding.
I would love to come an work for u
I actually find these so hard and annoying to grow. I had one rooting in a pot inside my house and it suddenly drooped & died (probably from overwatering?) and the second one that I planted in the sun (since they say chokos love the sun) also began to droop and died. They're too sensitive. How do people grow them so easily? I'm so jealous 😩
The winner grow uncontrolled. Senna to need a lot of maintenance
And they are low carb so great on Keto diet
Sorry, 🤷