asacomm

Hi friends,
This is a sun shade of passion fruits in front of the porch.
It is really COOL!

Tangy

That really is quite beautiful, the litle green orbs and all. Looks like the perfect place for a summer cocktail!

the flying dutchman

Wow, wich cultivar is it and are they edible?

Ron

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NANAMAN

Very cool, looks like green Christmas ornaments! I love the idea of using edibles for other purposes, like sun shades.

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Ethan

BEAUTIFUL! how old is your plant?

-Ethan

asacomm

Thanks for all for watching my COOL sun shade.

flying dutchman, the species is called here F-1, of which academic name is
unknown. The diameter of the fruit is abt.6cm and it tastes very sweet but
slightly sour.

ethan, it is 2 years old, but it usually bears fruit from the first year.

MediaHound

WOW thats awesome!

I got ONE passionfruit this year from my vines

jnstropic

I never wanted to grow a passion vine, until I went to Brazil. Passion fruit drinks were all over the place, not the alcohol type but a limeade made with passion fruit. The flavor tasted like a guava (more like the guava wished it could be). Within two weeks after coming home I had a plant from the Ag. Dpt. They were doing trials and they wanted to see how it would grow in a back yard. It was robust and bloomed profusely. But I was the only thing that would pollinate the flowers. Maybe 1 out of 30 would set fruit. The flavor was perfect. Most good passion fruit needs sugar. The sour ones have the stronger flavor. But after pimping for the dumb plant for three years I took it out.

STEELVIPER

I've got quite a few passion fruits so far this year from my vine. Tasted one yesterday and it was real good. Full of pulp.

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AnnaJW

That is beautiful!!!

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Kylie2x

That is aboslutly Fab!!!!!!! I LOVE Passi's.. I have quite a few.. Most of mine are hybrids tho...I'm a sucker for a pretty flower.. I do grow some for fruit!!!Most of those I have started from seed and they haven't produced yet... GREAT PIC!!!!
Kylie

island cassie

Asacomm - that is a great picture, and I am going to copy your idea!! My passion fruits have broken their frame with their weight and I need to make a new one, so I will use them for shade too. If I do it now that the fruiting season is over, it will have time to grow back for the January crop. They are certainly prolific and I hope I have as many as you. The freezer is full of baggies of juice to tide me over until Jan!

momoese

That's really beautiful! I was planning on doing the same thing only with Kiwi instead. A male on one side and a female on the other meeting in the middle and hopefully pollinating.

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jnstropic

Mitchel, about 10 years ago we drove your ocean highway from LA to San Francisco. About 45 minutes from San Francisco we stopped at a kiwi u-pick. We picked 10 pounds and flew them home to Florida. The grower told us how to ripen them. The fruit was mature and when ripened it was hard to believe how good a Kiwi can be. Most of the Kiwi in the market has been stored too long and the flavor is lost. Unfortunately most people take the inferior taste as the normal. The grower was growing it in an arbor style and it would work well for you. My worry is that I am also in zone 10 and when I tried to grow kiwi it failed. It would grow one season and then die off. Maybe you are a little cooler. I sure would grow it if I could.

momoese

Thanks, that's good to know! From the research I've done they can be grown here but you never know till you try!

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