Passa Flora Incarnata fruit!

Yee haw! My passion flower is going to make a fruit. I tried to pollinate some of them at first, with no luck. Finally gave up...and this one sems to have been pollinated by nature...go figure. I'm torn between letting it ripen and eating it, just to taste it. I've seen passion fruit jelly before, but I've never seen passion fruit for sale and I"m curious about how it tastes. OTOH, maybe I should save it for seed. I'm thinking I should try the fruit and save the next one for seed... Has anyone ever eaten one? What does it taste like?

It's been so long since I've tasted one, can't remember. I do remember that I like it, some do,
some don't. Be sure and let it get ripe first. Will turn more yellow and soften up, if you pick too early will be sour.
The one you choose to use for seeds probably needs to be ripe too.
If not, the seeds may not germinate. In any event, I find them difficult to germinate from seeds. I wish you better luck than I had.

Jackie

I had a pod that Tropicman sent me where he crossed a white with a blue. Out of all the seeds in the pod, I had about ten germinate. They are still small, but hopefully they will make it.

Thanks for the info.

I tried the fruit,didn't care for it,very bitter,some other ones like Ruby Glow did taste like an orange,smelled better than it really tasted.
Man they germinated pretty fast,and they should be hardy there for you as well.
I hope that cross will be fragrant too!

They aren't very big...a couple of them are about four inches tall...but most of them are just tiny seedlings. Odd the way they germinated at different speeds. Can't wait to see what the blooms look like.

Oh, I discovered another fruit on the same vine, so now I have two of them...if the bugs don't get them. I'm saying that a lot lately...the grasshoppers go nuts over my plants. Haven't had any problems with caterpillars or leaf rollers...but the grasshoppers drive me nuts. I'll have to see hwat the farmers around here use...you can bet they don't let them eat up their soybeans, peanuts and cotton!

Seems to be a crickett explosion here,there everywhere!!!!
And if I remember,it's bad luck to harm a crickett!!!
Might hurt Jimmy,and we wouldn't want that to happen!!! LOL

Well, my first two fruit dried up on the vine...no big surprise...no rain in almost two months and heat index of 102+. However, I have more fruit appearing on other blooms...and we have gone into the typical July weather forcast of 30% cahnce of isolated popcorn shwers every day...so maybe we will start getting soem rain soon. I hope, I hope, I hope....

Didn't you get any rain from the tropical storm that just came thru?
I believe your sis did!!!

Not a smidge! And the frontal boundary taht dropped all that rain on Texas was supposed to stream up through here on its march east...but pulled north and petered out before we got anything out of it.

Sounds like a rain dance is needed bad!!!

The rain dances used to work when I was a kid....but maybe because we alwasy did them when there was a 30% chance of pocorn showers and we were near an area where the Gulf Stream met the air coming down from the north. Here, they don't seem to work...not even when there is a 30-40% chance of rain.

All week we have a 30%+ chance of rain, but it is just because it is so darn hot and humid. There are a lot of popcorn showers in the area and it looks like a nice coud wiht some heavier rain coming this way.

Next thing is to hook your hose up to the neighbbors outside faucett,and make it rain!!!LOL

ROFL! The rain dance worked! Yippeee! Guess that 1/16th Cherokee and 1/16th Choctaw finally kicked in. Black clouds moving in and thundering and lightening to beat the band! All I'll have to water today are the plants in the 'nursery' under the carport.

I just had that funny feeling,you might get it to rain!!!!

Yep, now I"m sending it down to Lisa...she needs it almost as badly as we did. I just hoep it isn't too little too late for the local crops. The corn crops are gone, but the peanuts and cotton are on the edge. OTOH, I don't want to get so much it wipes out the tomato crops....Last year, Tropical Storm Cindy parked on the area for 2-3 days...dumping about a foot a day. The tomatoes burst on the vines. This year's crop is the best that the area has had in YEARS. I'm eating my weight in both tomatoes and peaches! Made a peach cobbler from Chilton COunty peaches yesterday and plan to can up some home made peach jam and home made pickles this week.

If the rain will keep coming so I don't have to spend so much time watering, I can get some of thsi stuff done!

Well if you need any help eating!!!
I'm your man!!!LOL

LOL! Hey, NOw I've got two decent sized fruit on my passies....plus I"ve to multiple flowers blooming at one time. I think they must like this heat. It was 102 here yesterday before the rain finally hit.

102!
Ouch!
As Linda Ronstadt would Say.Looks like a heatwave!!!

Cooling down now. We've got a fronatl boundary where a system over Bermuda is pushign the air west and it is meeting with the normal weather that moves east...right on top of us. We have had rain every afternoon or evning for the last two days...and we have thunder rumbling again today. Looking at the doppler there is a nice little trail of red tops moving this way. I already have seven 5 gallon buckets full of rain water for my container plants. No more to put out to catch the run off! LOL!

Next week it is ofrecast to ahve highs in the 80s Woohoo! A Cold Snap!

yes with humidity it won't seem much like a cool snap!!!!LOL

Hey, Bama, you'd better knock off that Rain Dance stuff.
The neighbors may get hostile, what with all the rain
you're having.
What on earth does Passion fruit taste like?

I have no idea. A few people have said they have tried it and most say it is kind of bland. Check out the size of these babies now!

Amazing growth, all in just ONE week from your
first picture. What are you feeding it anyway LOL

Water. If you fertilize passies while they are flowering, they drop their blooms and put all theri growth into leaves. The key in this heat seems to be water, water, water!

I just got in from doing some planting in the dark. It is the only time you can plant right now. But since I am out in the country, the porch lights don't carry much weight in the dark. I hope I got them all in the right places! LOL! Actually, it was still light when I planted most of them. But there were several nandinas in one pot and I had broken the root ball up and separated them....all of a sudden it was DARK....and I still had to get three plants in the ground. But, they are background plants for the abck of my hydrangea bed, so if they aren't exactly straight or even, it is OK.

Well, I"m off to eat, soak in a very hot tub, then off to bed. I have to go to the dentist tomorrow to get a fillings in my front teeth....I HATE fillings in the front teeth because they give you the shot under yur front lip...adn it stings all the way inside my nose. Actually, I am dental phobic anyway....but there are a couple of spots that are worse...the front teeth and the teeth that have long roots into the jaw bone....