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Post by manonthemoon2 on Sept 17, 2021 16:32:41 GMT 1
Finally after about 4-5 years, the flower now has fruit. Still green at the moment so can they be picked and left to fully ripen?
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Post by Veem on Sept 17, 2021 16:39:35 GMT 1
I had no idea so asked Google. Without further investigation I got this response, but there was loads more on the subject.
'To ripen passion fruit at home, place it at room temperature and give it a few days to ripen further. Keep it away from direct sunlight. Green passion fruit won't ripen fully off the vine, but ripe fruits will develop deeper, sweeter flavor if left uneaten for several days.'
Others of course may have personal experience to relate to you. Good luck.
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Post by gigi on Sept 17, 2021 17:48:16 GMT 1
I understand that Passiflora caerulea, with lovely white and blue/purple flowers, can be eaten when the fruit is fully ripe and nicely orange - if fruits aren’t fully ripe they can cause stomach upsets.
I’ve grown them for years and have many flowers and fruit, but I’ve never tried eating them.
I have to keep an eye open for plants springing up even quite a distance from the main plant as they can take over. If you try eating any fruits when they are fully ripe, please come back and let us know if you enjoyed them.
My main, original passionflower is in a sorry state; it’s trained right along trellis along the back of our south-facing house but I can’t climb up to help it along the trellis or tie it in now, so it tends to hang down quite a lot, despite it managing to cling and climb over many bushes and fences in our garden. It made a shady curtain, particularly across the windows and French window and has been welcome shade when we’ve had hot days - not very many this year, but gave good respite on the few days when it was hot.
It badly needed tying in or cutting back, so last week I got out the extending garden loppers, reached up to prune it and cut all the ‘curtain’ back to just above the windows.
Fast forward to this week and a few days ago I found that most of the passionflower was dead; I suddenly remembered that one particular chop last week was quite difficult - and realised that I must have cut a main climbing stem off. It still looks very healthy right up to the first window but the rest looks awful. I’ll have to take much more care when chopping/lopping it in the future.
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Post by houpla on Sept 17, 2021 18:50:46 GMT 1
As said above, motm2, the fruit needs to have turned orange before picking. P. caerulea has pretty insipid fruit. P. edulis is the one usually sold commercially.
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Post by exile on Sept 17, 2021 18:54:55 GMT 1
If you do get yellow fruit and pick them then set them near bananas. Ethylene gas is the ripening agent without comparison and ripe bananas give it off with a vengeance.
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