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So, you need a shrubbery to get in?

Be careful; they're toxic raw or undercooked (actually, this is this is the first time I've heard of anyone trying to eat them; they're usually a curiosity ornamental.) Oh, and it's a tropical vine/climber, so you'll need a greenhouse/indoor space with a LOT of room.

Ah, the Rue d' Dae, I had an apartment there when I lived in Paris.....

I got mine AS a plant.

I honestly don't remember. It got added to the side path flower patch, which I tend to forget about. I don't even know if it's still there or not (apart from the Scotch Broom and some Black Eyed Susans, I don't know WHAT is still there.

There's a more fundamental problem with cucurbits setting good seeds. It's the same one in common with all obligate outcrossing flowers; how much seed one gets is a function of how well pollinated they are, and how well pollinated they are is often a function of how many plants one has. I often...

Count yourself lucky. All of mine collapsed last year as soon as the first fruit showed up. By the time any got to a size where eating them was even possible, the respective vine was basically dead, And even if that one was allowed to ripen all the way, there were basically no viable seeds.

Am I the only one who hopes the answer to that statement is "I NEED you to mind your own business, leave me alone, a let me deal with this without interfering or getting in the way" Having one's heart in the right place is great, but it doesn't make up for having one's brain in the wrong one.

I should warn you, like a lot of the Indian khiva type cucumbers, Sikkim can take a lot of summer heat to do well; more than can be counted on this far north. Maybe try for a Russian khiva type, like Kaiser Alexander, Brown Russian, or Russian Potato/Little Potato. (I'd say Russian Netted, but...

I have a similar conflict with regards to wineberries. On one hand, I know they are super invasive and create dense thickets of thorny brambles. On the other, they ARE about the only fruit on my property can count on to produce anything. As for "native", native to where? Your area of the...