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Bought two of the fruit today, fleash was very sweet, not  at all  tart like the purple ones and the seeds were not as crunchy and a paler colour too, flesh was pale grey.

I kept loads of seeds, does anyone know anything about this type, I know the purple one and the oval small orange one but have not seen this one before.

Do you think they would grow?

XX Jeannine

I bet they will.. ;) I have never had a problem getting passion fruit to germinate and grow..
..it is the having passion enough to grow them long enough to get them to fruit that I am lacking of.. ::)..
If you have somewhere room and right conditions for them to grow it is always worth it to try..sounds yummy...

Sounds like the flavicarpa variant of the standard passionfruit (P. edulis) - supposed to be less hardy than the ordinary one  http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/passionfruit.html - but not impossible to grow if you can keep it consistently above zero over winter.

You can get away with less heat by having the roots in a warm place with the vine itself running outside (opposite of greenhouse grape culture).

The other one you might encounter in good supermarkets is the even larger brown/orange "sweet grenadilla" which is a nearly empty shell but contains the most delicious seeds and pulp - unfortunately needs even more heat and is notorious for never flowering from seed.

Cheers.

it is bigger than a grenadilla. I think it is the Australian one, giant something or other..needed to know if it might grow.. nuther question, should I plant them fresh or let them dry out ? XX Jeannine

Mmm sounds a lovely fruit. I agree with Goodlife they are easy to get going and they seem to germinate well from both fresh and stored, not sure how long seeds can be stored though.

I lost my Grenadilla and possibly my passion fruit this winter  :(. Bit colder than I thought, which is a shame as I had some beautiful flowers late autumn last year.

Quote from: Jeannine on April 06, 2010, 01:13:06
it is bigger than a grenadilla. I think it is the Australian one, giant something or other..needed to know if it might grow.. nuther question, should I plant them fresh or let them dry out ? XX Jeannine

The Sweet Grenadilla can be the size of a large orange/small grapefruit - if it is larger then it is probably the giant grenadilla (P.quadrangularis - a gigantic climber) or possibly a very large P.alata - they are very similar otherwise, though the alata is a much neater plant.

If so the skin is so thick, tender and fleshy it can be used as a vegetable.

They are both from southern Central America but these days the Aussies are starting to compete with the Kiwis on growing exotica - and stealing their origins...

Good luck to them actually.

Some of the alata hybrids are nearly as hardy as P.edulis so one of the better ones to try from seed.