hi everyone,
my mum has a passion flower plant that has gone a bit mad this year. now it is smothered in fruit! hundreds of them!
the fruit are about the size of a woman's fist ??? orange and kind of squidgy. inside there are seeds covered in a sort of slimey, scarlet jelly. they don't smell.
are these just unripe?
will they turn into 'real' passion fruit eventually if left on the plant?
or are they a poisonous cousin of proper passion fruits?
Tara xx
Tara
no i mean helloo ok ok enough
will you let me know as we have a thousand and one also
cheers
carl
My neighbour had a huge plant too, and started eating them around mid October last year. We went round there on bonfire night and were eating them then too.
I don't think they ever went the colour you see in the shops. You may taste the pulp now to check, but don't eat it if it's unripe, they contain poisons when unripe!
jennym,
when are they likely to be ripe? should i wait til october to be safe or is there a 'sign' that they're ready? (cor i'm dead excited now, i was sure they'd be deadly and i love passion fruit and there are SO MANY ;D ;D ;D)
carloso, tee hee very good. took me a moment to get it but then really made me giggle!
fab news about the passion fruits eh?
Tara xx
Hi,
I have bought two passion flowers last year because I thought their fruits were passion fruits that you can buy from the supermarket. But later I found out that passion flower's fruits are not edible.
So I try again with the proper passion fruit's seed that I bought from shop. Now they were about 4 foot height. I don't think I can get any fruit this year!
You eat only the flesh of passion fruit, not the skin, seeds or leaves. When they start to come off the plant very easily, or drop on their own, and feel soft, they will be ripe.
I've been told never to eat a passion fruit until it is ripe and that it isn't ripe until it falls off the plant.
This is my first year with any fruit and they are definitly not ripe yet.
Good luck
Viks
I tried the orangey fruit of the passion flower, revolting!!! I love passion fruit, but passion flowers are yuck. I think I will give it a good chop back and just view it as ornamental.