Growing Purple Passion Fruit | Harvest and Taste Test!
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- Growing Purple Passion Fruit - Harvest and Taste Test! Our passion fruit is growing in coastal central Florida, USDA Hardiness Zone 10a. Enjoy!
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Absolutely Incredible! Thanks for sharing!
If multiple people in every community plant different crops and trade, can you imagine the abundance of free healthy local food!
I can’t even imagine! People are creative though when needed, the neighborhood we live in people are interested in growing food too. With prices as high as they are on food it’s totally worth trying to grow all you possibly can! Thanks for watching Ethan!
the wrinkled ones are the sweetest ripest !!!
Yes you are correct!
Passion fruit lemonade! Yum. I wish I was your neighbor!
That is an excellent idea! Going to definitely have to try that! Thanks for watching!
The squirrels and raccoons love mine. I must go out every night after work and pick up half a dozen-2 dozen a night this time of year. Last night I got 20, tonight I picked up 11 so I mean that’s pretty solid. But I have a video of a squirrel on a limb just chewing his way through the top.
For some reason we got lucky the first 1-2 years with this vine, then the third year the squirrels just went to town on it. I have no clue why?
beautiful family , i have purple & yellow in backyard . havent fruited yet . in central fl as well
Thank you! We have some Panama red and Sweet sunrise passion fruit we haven’t gotten fruit on yet either! I hope you get fruit on yours this year! We found we started getting fruit once the vines were about a half inch in diameter. Our vines are about an inch in diameter on our big purple passion vines now!
nice, so my yellow passion has attached itself to my maple tree its weird how its going about trying to get sunlight through the maples leaves. But in 50 gallon pot i got it in i noticed many suckers or "baby" plants trying to fight for sunlight , so what i started doing is plucking the baby ones out and putting them in pots so they can develop. I do have Fredericks as well but 1.) grows way slower 2.) doesnt make ANY BABIES as of yet but its attached itself to 2 of my Magnolia trees . i think yellow is MORE prolific in central fl than purple Allday
Ours really took off when it went up our cabbage palms. We had a fence for it and it just jumped it lol
@@IslandsnHighlands update my purple passions started flowering last week
Dude I have tons of these growing wild behind my house. I didn't know what they were until now! Don't they have the crazy looking flowers?
Yes! Wait until the fruit drops and give them a try!
So cool! I purchased a plant and it was doing well, but it picked up the orange spiky caterpillar that can devour the plant. I need to find another place to plant it with better light exposure for next year. Im on the coast north of St Augustine, FL. Is the vine deciduous or does it keep the leaves? Suggestions on the caterpillars?
My first year of having ours they were inundated with the gulf fritillary caterpillars (which is what you see), I wanted mine to be used as a host plant for the butterflies, as gulf fritillary and zebra long wings lay their eggs on the purple passion vine. The caterpillars stayed on mine for the first year and then they never came back and my vine grew wild up my tree. Now my vine is totally dead, we need to replant it. We got so much fruit for 2 years, I should’ve gotten more babies going 2 years ago to replace this one. I knew I had read that die back after 3-5 years but it was such an amazing specimen I thought ours would be different lol. The caterpillars didn’t seem to hold mine back at all, I left them on and enjoyed watching the cocoons emerge into butterflies
@@IslandsnHighlands I’ve seen the butterflies. Thanks for your update. I’ll let them go and see what happens. Too late for fruiting now anyways.
We have a 40 acre farm in Central Florida and guess what is growing all over our field? Wondering if I should open it up to the public and have you pick passion fruit field. What do you all think?
What kind of Passion fruit is it? What makes Passion fruit easy is you don’t pick off the vines- you pick it up when it falls. Do you have it growing up trees too? That would be incredible! We would come get some! Passion Fruit freeze so easily that would be great to get an abundance of them!
Wow, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing. new subscriber here. I had a couple of green ones. They never fruited until I decided to get rid of them. You mentioned that you are in Central Florida. Is there any way I can purchase some cuttings from you? I am in the Orlando / Apopka area.
Hi! Thanks for subscribing! We are an hour and a half from Orlando…but Nicks Edibles in St. Cloud is where I purchased mine from. He has a Facebook page. The boys will be selling some small plants May 27-28 at riverview park in sebastian. It all depends if our cuttings will root:-)
@@IslandsnHighlands thanks for your reply. Yeah, this a little too far. Thanks for suggesting Edibles in St. Cloud. I’ll check them out.
Nick is awesome-he has an incredible selection of all kids of cool edible plants
@@IslandsnHighlands sounds good. Thanks
Bumper crop wow, do they all ripen at once and just once a year?
We have a lot more still in the vine, so it will be interesting to see how long we keep getting fruit from it. Just once a year as far as I know. The star fruit will give us twice a year fruit! But these fruits taste so good, the flavor is so tropical and sweet
I bought a purple passion fruit from the store and waited a few days before I ate it. It went from smooth skin to somewhat wrinkly skin, but it was still juicy on the inside. However, it was very sour. Was it sour because I waited to long to eat it, or because that particular strain of purple passion fruit is probably sour? Thanks in advance! 🥰
I have had passion fruit from Publix also, which was also sour. If the fruit is picked off the vine in our experience it is sour. We let them fall before we eat ours and they are sweet. Were you able to save some seed? I got ours from nicks edibles-you can find him on Facebook. Our first fruit last year was a bit sour after it fell compared to the ones we have this year.
@@IslandsnHighlands oh, that is good to hear! I ended up eating the one bite and planting the rest of the seeds in a large pot to see if anything grew. That was only last week, so it’s too early to tell what will happen, but hopefully anything that grows will be relatively easy to transplant, once it has grown big enough. Thanks so much!!
Best of luck on your seeds sprouting! It’s an awesome plant to get growing! It’s amazing how happy ours is on our cabbage palms.
Can the perple passion fruit leaves will be eat as a vegetable.
I’ve never used the leaves for tea or a vegetable but I just read that you can use anything growing above the ground for vegetable and/or a tea. Be careful though if pregnant or about to undergo surgery
Are yours planted in full sun?
Yes, they climbed to the top of the cabbage palms to reach full sun.
Oh my gosh, I found your video by accident but I would love to grow these delicious fruits. Will they grow in Va. zone 7b?
I don’t think the purple passion vine would grow in zone 7b; and I’m trying to think of there would be a way for you to grow them in a pot with a structure. They need a pretty big area to climb. But I read you can let them go dormant over the winter. When we had our farm in Georgia (zone 7) we had a wild passion fruit vine in our fields that got the same beautiful flowers. I’m not sure if the fruit was edible but it did get small fruits too. The Native North American maypop (passiflora incarnata) grows in zones 6-9 and is the most cold hardy variety. I think that was the kind we had growing in Georgia. Best of luck finding a good variety to grow! The best part of gardening is trying new things and making it work in your area!
Hi Susan, I’m near you in Alexandria, VA. I’m zone 7A/7B. I’ve been growing passion fruit for a few years and I always get fruit planted in ground. You can grow them in pots, but you will get more fruit in the ground. I grow them on a cattle panel attached to t-posts. Obviously our winters will absolutely kill the vine, so in the fall I take and root 3-4 cuttings before the first freeze. I keep the cuttings in my garage under a grow light, but if you have a sunny area in your home, you can overwinter them inside. After the last frost, I just plant them outside again in late spring. I usually plant two vines since the growing season isn’t super long…and just in case I lose one. Let me know if you have any questions.
I’ve heard they are actually “hardy” down to zone 6. Hardy in the sense that the vine will completely die back but it will grow back from the root. Since I take cuttings in the fall anyway, I’m gonna test that theory next season.
@pwashing1 thank you for your information and advice! I hope you have success overwintering your vines next winter! Happy gardening!
I have been watching vidwos about the passiflira fruits and I am hearing that the wrinkled ones actually taste the best? 🤷🏻♀️ I am only IN to.a bit over 2 minutes of your video, so maybe you will mention the wrinkled ones! I am.wanting tongrow a.yellow.passiflora.up my front porch deck, that is how I found your video. I will.watch on now...😊
Hi! I think the wrinkly ones are sweeter, however they just get wrinklier over time and eventually they get dried out. These passion fruits were the purple passionfruit variety and are gone now unfortunately (they die back every 3/5 years so new plants need to be planted every other year or two to keep it going) I miss these fruits so much as they were a really heavy producer for us for a few years! And the flowers make it such a beautiful ornamental also! I wish you all the best getting your passion vines going!