[header] How to grow chayotes [title] Buy a chayote fruit. [step] Once the roots have developed healthily and the shoot reaches about 30 centimetres high, stake and plant in soil enriched with compost. Be sure that the actual' fruit' part is buried under soil. 
[title] Leave your chayote in a sunny place away from all factors that could induce mouldiness or rotting. [step] Within a week or two a slender green shoot should emerge from the end opposite from the attached stem.