Common green sayote (sayote): Characteristics
Common green sayote is a sayote variety, also sold or known as sayote or tsayote. It is not a registered variety, so the facts here come from its seller and farm sources.
If you came here looking for sayote or tsayote, this is the same sayote. The facts below come from its seller and from farm sources, each one listed at the end. Compare it with the others in our sayote variety finder, or see every crop variety we list. For the crop itself, read our guide: vegetables in the Philippines.
Key facts about Common green sayote
| Trait | What the record shows |
|---|---|
| Also known as | sayote, tsayote, chayote |
How long does it take, and how much does it yield?
No day count or trial yield is published for this variety. So ask the seller or your municipal agriculturist for figures from farms near you before you plan a season around it.
Once you know the day count, anee.io dates every task from each lot's own planting day, with the growth stages and weather beside it.
Is it resistant to pests and diseases?
No pest or disease ratings are published for this variety. So treat it as untested, and scout every week.
The pests and diseases that hit sayote fields most often: downy mildew of cucurbits, melon fly, powdery mildew, thrips, whitefly. Our pest finder and disease finder help you name what you see.
What its seller and farm sources say
- Fruit: Pear shaped, mostly light green, slightly wrinkled or shallowly grooved, some forms carry soft spines and colour runs from dark green to nearly white, one large flat seed inside.
- Where: Highland (Benguet and other Cordillera areas).
- The single seed sprouts inside the fruit, often while it still hangs on the vine.
- Perennial climbing vine with a tuberous root, fruit, tuber, shoots and leaves are all eaten.
Why farmers know it: the sayote farmed commercially in Benguet and other Cordillera highlands, no named variety is sold or registered, so this one entry stands for the local type. Check these against what farmers near you have seen, because the same variety can do differently from one town to the next.
Where and when to plant Common green sayote
Sayote grows best in the cool highlands, planted from a whole fruit. Pick the smooth or the spiny kind your market buys. Before planting, get the field ready with our guide: Pagtatanim ng gulay.
Before you buy seed
- Buy sealed packs or tagged sacks from an accredited dealer, and check the packing date and germination rate.
- Ask your municipal agriculturist or nearby farmers how it did in your area last season.
- Try it on a small area first, beside the variety you usually plant, before you switch the whole farm.
- Write down the planting day, inputs and harvest, so you can compare varieties on your own ground. anee.io keeps these records for you.
Set the planting day of each lot and anee.io dates every task to harvest, with the weather beside it. Free on the Libre plan.
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