regions: Originally cultivated in
African Kalahari desert region, now in the world. As the focus of growing with New Zealand, Israel and Kenya is distributed in climate zones, the Kiwano on the European market usually available all year round.
 Here comes one of the great fruit. Right picture: Female flower. | |
Growth: How
all known traditional cucumber pickle is the horn for one year, climbing climber that can take a short time enormous space for its rapid growth. From a size of about 0.5 m numerous side shoots are formed, a generously-built grids or taut wire is therefore needed. If the plant has no way to grow up, it spreads like a ground cover, to a climbing ability is found. The leaves reach nearly 15 cm in diameter and are, like the stems of fine, sharp spines covered. Especially for larger plants, they can people with sensitive Skin can be annoying. As monoecious plant with male and female flowers of each copy. The males are almost always more in the leaf axils. The females are by and large were individually and also by a prominent, wide, marked with the distinctive "spines" occupied ovary. Some plants will later take up to 100 mature fruits; normally but the figure is less than half.
 Both stems and leaves are filled with numerous spines. |  are the seeds for the Kiwano the culture. It is important to ensure that the seeds are sown in the spring soon enough to allow the maturation of the fruit. |
location:
| summer | The climate should be sunny and warm, so a house wall to the south is best, if not a greenhouse or conservatory is available. With high humidity and high temperatures of over 40 ° C in the greenhouse growing Kiwano several inches a day. Cutbacks are therefore essential if other plants are nearby. The attitude in the living room is possible here must, however, necessarily a bright, warm place as close to stand at the window of opportunity, because otherwise the plant becomes stunted. When planted early may delay the onset of autumn with temperatures consistently below 15 ° C, the fruit ripening significantly or eliminate. |
| Winter | No winter because the plant is annual. |
 If one is not the horny cucumber with scissors in check, soon the whole glass house overgrown. |  maturing Horn cucumber under glass (Germany) |
cultivation / propagation: About
seed that is the fruit of the plant abundant. They germinate in temperatures above 20 ° C reliably and quickly. As early as the seedlings grow rapidly, so that the first repotting lässt.Kompost not long in coming or potting soil, the high nutrient requirements to satisfy the horny cucumber. Moreover, the substrate should not be compressed too much. The horn will cucumber can both easily kept moist and watered at long intervals:
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casting. Short-term Water shortage harms the plant does not recover quickly leaves hanging limp in contrast to their appearance again.
 Male flower | |
fertilizing:
Once the growth rate decreases the plant should be fertilized in the main growing season about once a week. If a floral approach is visible, the fertilizer significantly reduced or halted altogether.
 Female flowers (still closed) | |
fruiting / harvesting:
Some plants will later take up to 100 mature fruits; normally but the figure is less than half.
| |  The fruits are often controversial taste, but often serve as a decorative object. |
fruit use:
The warty-prickly skin and an interesting color to ask for use as a decorative object. The flesh of the 10 - 15 cm long fruit is green and is eaten raw. About the edibility of the fruit, opinions range from banana-lemon to inedible bitter or bland. The latter will have its basis in the distribution of wild plant seeds, place in Africa because of the unpleasant taste only in the "lean times" use. In each case, but the fruit contains a lot of water and in dry, cool conditions last long. A stay in the refrigerator, however, causes the opposite, it accelerates the destruction of the horny cucumber.
 The insipid pulp contains many seeds, which can be removed only with difficulty. Who wants to try a recipe with Kiwano can look around the forum as for 'Kiwano yoghurt cream. | |
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genus Info:
The genus Cucumis such as are many types of melon (not watermelon) and cucumbers. Cucumis sativus  | cucumber |
| Cucumis melo | cantaloupe, honeydew melon (various varieties of melons, but not the Wassermelone Citrullus lanatus ) |
| Cucumis africanus | Ziergurke |
| Cucumis anguria | Ziergurke |
| Cucumis myriocarpus | Ziergurke |
| Cucumis dipsaceus | decorative cucumber |
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