Mirliton Photos
Instructions to Viewing Mirliton Photo Albums
This is a collection of several hundred photographs of Louisiana heirloom mirliton varieties, growers, cultivation techniques, and plant diseases and pests. Several of these are instructional photos that use captions to explain the techniques.
- To view the album photos, click on the album link to view photos.
- To view individual photos and their captions, click on the individual photo. You can scan through the photos by navigating with the arrow button on the left and right side of the pictures.
- The captions appear at the bottom of some photos.
- To download photo, right click and choose “save image”.
- To magnify a photo, click on the magnify glass.
Ervin Crawford’s Winter Vine Enclosure
How to recover freeze-damaged seed mirlitons (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Mirliton Farm Site Visit, July 2010
Ye Olde College Inn Water Table Test
Church Point, Sunset and Opelousas
Wilting From Anthracnose in Mirlitons
Anthracnose Infection of Mirliton Leaves
“Ishreal Tibodeaux White Mirliton” Variety Site
Mr. Leo Jone’s Mirliton Trellis
Leaf-Footed Bug Damage to Mirltion Fruit
Leaf-Footed Bug on Mirliton Plant
Crawford Mirliton Farm July 2009
Papa Sylvest Mirliton Site Visit June 2011
Hurricane Isaac Wind Damage, September 2012
Boudreaux, Boutte, Botanical Garden, and Abandoned site, 2012
Anthracnose Damage to Mirliton Plant Parts
How to Grow the Inner Seed of a Mirliton
How to Determine Root Damage in Seed Mirlitons
Elwood Shexnayder Variety Mirlitons, Destrehan, Louisiana
Boudreaux, Containers, Festival, Fencing, Sprinkler
Mexican “Day of the Dead Altar”
Mirliton Site Visits November 2009 Controlled Pollination
Site Visits at Mister Rock and Miss Vivian Mirliton Farms
Clear Containers with Mirliton Planted Fruit
Sister Morgan Mirliton Variety Vines
How to Plant Mirlitons in small Containers for overwintering
How to “Incubate” Mirlitons into Sprouting, October 2009
Papa Sylvest Mirliton Variety Site Visit October 2009
Louisiana Heirloom Mirliton Varieties
“Mister Rock” MIrliton site visit October 2009
Raised Bed Drainage System Test Using interior French Drain Pipes
Leaf Footed Bug Damage to Mirlitons
Testing for Anthracnose in Mirlitons
Paul’s Metal-Post Mirliton Trellis System
Ed Landry Mirliton Site June 2010
Bamboo Stick For Testing Soil Moisture
Various Mirlitons and Tubers (Chayotera): Metairie, Uptown New Orleans and Mirliton Tuber (chayote)
Frost Protection Sprinkler Systems Jul 21, 2013
Botanical Garden October 2012 (Sechium edule, mirliton, chayote)
Blair Store Lower 9th Ward Mirliton Garden, May 2012 (Chayote, “Sechium edule”)
“Eno Guillot” Mirliton Variety site visit Oct 17 09 (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Ed Landry, James Boutte, Joseph Boudreaux Mirliton Varieties, Dec. 2010) (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Mister Rock Mirliton Site Visit June 26, 2011 (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Jack Carson’s Mirliton, Oct. 2010, Harahan, Louisiana,Mister Rock Variety (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Mirliton Interior Seeds (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Mirliton in a Tub (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
“James Cobb” mirliton variety site visit October29 2009 (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Oct 23, 2009 “Mister Rock” mirlitons & vegetative propagation photos (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Lance’s Mirltons Fall, 2008 (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
“Papa Sylvest” Mirliton Variety (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
“James Cobb” Mirliton Variety (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Root-Knot nematode Damage to Mirliton Roots (chayote, “Sechium edule”)
Assorted Mirliton Growers, Trellis and Shade systems