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13 Nov 18, Bill (Australia - temperate climate)

New choko plant growing well,lower leaves are good but new leaves are curling on the outer edge. Can you advise, thanks

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15 Nov 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

A big guess - could be the hot weather. Check in the morning and see if it like this when it is cool.

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22 Nov 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

It could be some curly leaf virus also.

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14 Oct 18, Rick (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hi I live in Bundaberg and have a choko vine that was planted in the summer, during the winter we had so much good looking fruit we gave it away to our friends. We find our fruit is now growing deformed, we have cut back new growth to stop the vine from taking over the garden, it is very healthy, we have some ants around and what garden hasn't !! could you enlighten me as to what could be causing the deformity ?

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15 Oct 18, Mike Logan (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I live coral cove. Hard to tell without looking at it. Maybe trace element deficient, some bug, disease ???? I'd suggest you may be better pulling it out and plant another one. Probably in a different position.

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08 Jul 18, Narelle (Australia - temperate climate)

I live in the mid Blue Mountains and bought a couple of chokos a week or so ago and they are beginning to sprout. It's a bit cool outside at the moment and I was thinking of planting them in a pot until it warms up a bit. Would that be okay or would it be detrimental to the vines, to replant outside? I was also under the impression that you had to plant two vines for them to fruit is this the case?

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13 Jul 18, Mike L (Australia - temperate climate)

It does say plant a vine or two - so sounds like you only need one. It says plant in Dec so yours is way out of season. Let it keep sprouting for awhile. Probably the less it grows now the better. In a pot it might grow quicker. Good luck.

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12 Jul 18, John (Australia - temperate climate)

Potting them up and keeping them inside until the spring is a good way to go. Wait until all danger of frosts had passed. You only need one plant to produce fruit. The frost will knock it around next winter but you could heavily mulch the vine and it will re-sprout in the spring.

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28 Jun 18, Peter (Australia - temperate climate)

We had an enormous Choko growing at the back of our chook shed when I was a kid. Mum pressure cooked small ones whole, slash in half, dab of butter, yum! We sold big ones off front verge 2 for a trey bit (threepenny coin). Found out later Choko was used a lot in apple pie, since it would bulk up the filling without imparting any flavours of its own. Saw an old one in Green Grocers, must revitalise the heritige!

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13 Jun 18, Phil (Australia - temperate climate)

My chokos started flowering much later this season than last year. It was unusually in that I had lots of female flowers developing before any of the male flowers did so most of my early chokos never were pollinated. Bees did not arrive either until three to four weeks ago and they are still all over the plant. I've got lots of baby chokos, but will they get the chance to develop this late in the season in Adelaide's northern suburbs with day temps of 15'C or less and night time temps getting down to 6'C and lower by the day?

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