Hey i know this fruit we have them in my country. First of all that fruit you picked hasn't reached it's desired state of ripening. When this fruit is best the skin (most of it anyway) displays a golden colour. And it also has a distinct smell /arouma. In my country we usually prepare this fruit by juicing out the pulps like you did and then we peel off the skin and the inner lining that holds the seeds. Being left with only the melon like flesh .which we mix in together then add milk ( condensed milk) ice and blend into a lovely drink. We call it bar-ba-dine. Dine pronounced like dean.
The fruits I have picked so far are very sweet. You are the second person that tells me the fruit isn't ripe enough but as soon as the fruits develop a golden blush in my climate they begin to decompose from bacterial attack. Large dark spots develop and the fruit rots. It is my judgement that in the Hawaiian climate the fruit must be picked in the state I harvested or we lose the crop. The juice i get from these fruit is about the sugar content of good orange juice. The rind is soft and edible but not particularly sweet. Thanks for the feed back. Bill
GreenGardenGuy1. no problem man ....if you have any questions about tropical fruits . i may be able to help. yeah they do begin to rott if you let it get golden colour all over. but i hope you like it ...that recipe i gave you you should try it though. good to see you doing that kinda stuff in your country .
GreenGardenGuy1 you can picked the fruit yellowish not fully ripe an in daysvits ripe if left on the tree to ripe it can get overipe softer better to pick semi ripe an yellowish in color an makes a great punch
Wow, those are even bigger than i expected! I have a cutting of this from your nursery coming up right now, first flowers are starting to form- so excited! Ive found the rinds make into a nice jam as well.
The green rind is useful used like summer squash. The ripe rind resembles honeydew melon lacking sugar. It can be added to fruit salads if the juice is used to flavor it. I believe you can make a jam from anything if you cook it with sugar. I try not to eat added sugar foods much. It's been many years since I tasted a jam. Consider using the Yacon syrup for this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wuok3_kVE_Y.html
That thing is huge! I never knew they made fruits that big. Beautiful flowers too. I'm trying the purple passionfruit from seeds i saved. Mostly for ornamental purpose.
The purple fruited form of Passiflora edulis is an easy plant to grow and will make a good crop in mild areas of CA and FL. It is possible in sheltered areas of other locations too. Good luck, figure two years to fruit from seed.
Of all passion fruit the hybrid cross between P. edulis and P. laurifolia is my all time favorite. I continue to grow the giant because it is fair eating and quite a curiosity. Aloha
The green fruit makes a good vegetable. In India it is used in curry. I like plants that double as vegetables and fruit. I cut it into fruit salad with banana and pineapple, it added some bulk and was good marinated in Lilikoi rum. My favorite use was to mix the juice with some water, organic sugar and then spin it in the blender with the pulp from the rind to make a popsicle. I would say blending the rind with the juice is the best plan.
Thank you for sharing! I am growing a purple passion fruit from seed in my garden and I would love to get seeds from this giant passion fruit! Looks good and keep up the great videos! Lawrence H
Thanks. You'll run across a plant eventually, they aren't rare. I grow them here in Hawaii and I was able to source them in California while I ran nursery in the Bay Area. They are too tender for most climates though. Outside of a greenhouse only Hawaii, favorable locations in Southern California and South Florida are about the only places it will grow in the USA.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 My regret stems from my hesitation to buy the plant on 2 previous occasions coz I had very limited growing space and I anticipated it would grow even larger than the P. edulis vine. I currently have 2 P. edulis vines and one P. miniata scrambling all over my 20-feet huge Mango tree. I realize now I might have room to squeeze a P. quadrangularis in there as well!😁
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Glad you enjoyed it. Other than the mythical land of OZ the only definitions I could find are: OZ Open Zelda (gaming software) OZ Outer Zone OZ Organization of Zodiac (gaming military slang) OZ Operation Zero (overweight program for adolescents) I assume you aren't in Kansas anymore Totto.
Holy cow! I LOVE lilikoi. I wish I could grow them in Oregon, but I'll just have to vicariously enjoy your tasting. Maybe you should call it a POG fruit.
Look around for a Maypop Passion Flower (Passiflora incarnata) Hardiness Zone 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 It is native to the SE USA. Passiflora 'Incense' is also hardy to zone 5 and has outstanding flower color.
It is a rather interesting passion fruit. The pulp can be eaten like a vegetable and the fruit has the most juice of any passion vine. I have fresh seed on the website.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I wanted to buy seeds but your website saying that you don't ship to TX? I bought a cacao plant previously from Hawaii so is it a mistake?
@@Inspirationhills I can ship seeds to Texas, I just can't ship plants. I recently removed all the plants from my website to avoid orders from prohibited states but the warning is still posted. Seeds are legal to 50 states but plants are excluded by CA, AZ, TX, & LA. As far as the cacao plant is concerned it depends. A couple years back it was legal for me to ship into TX but they changed the laws. If the plant came from a certified nursery then it was likely legal. Otherwise it may have been a violation. If the plant didn't carry any pests or disease then all will be well.
I had no idea the fruits got that big. They sell small plants in Pa, as an outdoor patio plant. About 2ft high. Cant over winter unless u have an indoor setup. Wow how cool to get the fruit
I love your video, brilliant! I've just bought some seeds, very excited after watching this! Can you please tell me what music is playing at the beginning thanks! Nikki UK 🇬🇧
We call this fruit Badea. It grows wild in warm weather areas of Colombia. We eat everything including the pulp and seeds and make an amazing beverage we call sorbete de badea.
its xalk babdeine an make a puch when ripe with the pulp an swizzle the seeds in water an add to the minced pulp plus condense mulj cinnamon an nutned serve the drink cold we used d it in Trinidad y Tobago
Yes, the rind is about as juicy as a honey dew melon. It doesn't have a lot of flavor though so as a juice I would blend it with pineapple, citrus or maybe apple. I used it two ways. I cut it into fruit salad with banana and pineapple, it added some bulk and was good marinated in Lilikoi rum. My favorite use was to mix the juice with some water, organic sugar and then spun it in the blender with the pulp from the rind to make a popsicle. I would say blending the rind with the juice is the best plan. If you pick the fruit when green the juice isn't much good but the rind makes a great vegetable. Use it like Chayote. Bill
Yes it will juice easily peeled or even unpeeled. The outside skin is soft and edible. The inside membrane, next to the seeds, is the only part I would reject as food.
Zombies make good BBQ when marinated in passion fruit juice. After the zombies finish eating brains in Honolulu there should be plenty of tourist wallets laying around all over the streets. The financial apocalypse will be no problem.
Dang, that is one BIG honkin' passion fruit. And it's so juicy we can hear the "slurp" as you're eating it. I planted 3 passion fruit in my backyard this spring even though my area in NorCal (9b) is not ideal. And now I've gone totally bananas but getting 4 dwarf banana plants to see if I can get them to fruit here too. I want to have just a little bit of Hawaii. You're a bad influence. :)
DW, The standard passion fruit, Passiflora edulis, has a good chance in most of NorCal. If you get a bit frosty plant it near a wall or at the south edge of an evergreen tree for shelter. The giant passion fruit won't work but I grew regular purple and yellow lilikoi in Fremont, CA for years. As for bananas, I had good success with bananas in NorCal too but the variety is the key. Unfortunately my experience with dwarf bananas in Fremont was miserable. The only dwarf that might do okay is the dwarf Orinoco. The banana is basically a tropical plant, Fremont had more of a subtropical climate. The banana has to be vigorous enough to stand the cold in CA. Dwarfs mostly lack vigor so they become susceptible to root rots and choking in cold climates. I had several varieties that fruited but Ice Cream and Namwah were my favorites.
Thanks for the mostly good news. I'm near Sacto so I think we get a little more frost than Fremont but there are some who've had success with some bananas so I'll keep my fingers crossed. If my dwarf's don't prosper maybe I'll look at some of the smaller regulars. I don't really have much space for some of the varieties that get tall.
Elevation of crops was something I never really understood while dealing with clients in California. My opinion is that the only real estate in CA that is free is the vertical space. My dwarf avocado took up more space at ground level than my full size tree did because I could walk under the large one. The little one would spread at ground level and hog every inch of it's canopy space so nothing could be grown around or under it. Do not fear the tall bananas, they are your friend if you life in CA. I used my large bananas and full size avocado as shade cloth for my nursery in Fremont. The only concern I see with large plants is the shadow created if sun is limited.
Words of wisdom. If I can get my current banana plants to grow successfully, I will look at some taller species. Thanks for the moment of enlightenment.
If the flower drops off and takes the ovary with it them the problem is lack of pollination. You can do pollination yourself with an artist paint brush. If the flower is falling off and leaving the ovary then it just means the fruit is set and ripening.
Hi there Bill, I'm on Kauai in search of the Giant Lilikoi. I nearly had it the other day at a Farmers Market, but it was just sold before I got there. Any tips on finding one?
Do you wish to eat the fruit, acquire the the seeds or buy a plant? Since this fruit is rarely available in the farmers market the easiest way to find it is to plant one in the garden. If you are interested in seeds or a plant I can help you. send a request to greengardenservice@yahoo.com As for finding a fruit I have them on occasion but I do not ship them.
The flesh and seeds of purple passion fruit are edible, but the skin should not be consumed since it contains a small amount of cyanogenic glycosides (a source of cyanide).
The rind of the Purple Passiflora edulis is too tough to chew. It never crossed my mind to try and eat it. The rind of the Giant passion fruit is a whole other story though. It won't be my favorite food but it is definitely edible. When green is is used like a summer squash. When it is ripe I chop it into fruit salad along with the juice. I see a few of the viewers have posted recipes for it here.
I am about to add this to my garden if I plant it direct into the garden I don’t want to to pop up all over so should I keep this in a pot or will it be ok planted into the ground? I bought it to fill an arch I built. Thanks
The only way this plant will spread is from either seeds or cuttings. I have never seen it sucker. I have some vines that came on their own when i pruned and tossed them into the compost but it is pretty wet here.
Now if you are talking about Passiflora incarnata, which will grow in the UK, then we have a completely different story. That plant suckers like mad. The Giant Passion Fruit is too tender for the UK outside of greenhouses.
I have a Giant Passion Fruit growing in Hayward, California and the plant is doing very well and giving lot of flowers but no fruit even I do hand pollinating them. Do you have any experience to show me? Thank you
I am a very naturalistic grower and usually refrain from pollinating crops unless I am making intention hybrids by cross breeding or when like vanilla or cherimoya the insects are absent in the USA. I have never attempted to pollinate the passion vine although my partner Ellen does pollinate our Jamaican passion fruit. It appears nothing in Hawaii will touch this flower. On the giant passion fruit vine I get good pollination from moths here. Bees do not seem to care much for it. The pollen in passion fruit is on the anthers which are the center most outer structures of the flower. The ovary in the flower is all the way to the tip of the flower and dead center. Google the passion flower structure for review on this. Use a clean soft brush or Q-tip to move the pollen from the anthers to the ovary at the center.
Thanks for your Info. When I was in Vietnam my family had a Giant Passion fruit plant and I always hand pollinated them so I know how. but somehow in the bay area here I think there 2 things that I may affect to setting fruits are Heat and Humidity. How do you think?
I agree, you are on the right track with the weather. Since you have done the job of pollinating yourself the only other factors can be climate and general plant health. If the vine grows and flowers well you can eliminate the culture factor. I would think the California nights get too cold for the flowers and the days may be too dry. It is always possible that the days may sometimes be too hot also. This isn't something that is easy to control without a greenhouse. Misting the flowers and seeking the best time of day for pollination might help.
My plant is very healthy which I am so surprise that plant could survive in the Bay area. At least 20 flowers opened yesterday and there are around other 100 of flower buds still not open yet. Today, after I hand pollinated I used the plastic bag to cover the flower I hope this technique will give me hope.
I would be very careful with plastic bags on flowers. They can heat in the sun and cook the internal contents plus they condense moisture that can cause rot. Generally the only time we bag flowers is to prevent cross pollination from insects on intentional crosses.
Hi Bill,I just bought a White Guava. No other ID. I read conflicting advise on that for taste and hardiness. Some say 20f others say not hardy below 32f. What does Passion fruit taste like? I thought it was like Kiwi?
There are a lot of white guavas out there. Some are pear necked and others are very large and round. The most common type is from Vietnam and like most of the white guavas is tender to cold. I raised whites for years in Fremont but they were the least successful of all the guavas due to cold weather damage. The best guavas for N Cal are the pink ones with the yellow skin. They take cold better. What does passion fruit taste like? Boy that is a tough question. Do you mean the one in the video or the most common Passiflora edulis? No two types of passion fruit taste the same. Most good passion fruit is almost as acidic as it is sweet and has more aroma than taste. It is a nose thing, the smell is unmistakable. The giant passion fruit is less acid than most, I'd call it sub-acid. It has a good amount of sugar but instead of the classic perfume it has more of a citrus over tone. I have seeds for sale if you are interested. I have classic yellow Lilikoi, Purple Lilikoi, Jamaican passion fruit and the Giant shown in the video.
I took it back!..lol. I exchanged for a Pink. You were the second expert to say the pink has a better flavor. She's in Florida,so when you said pink was hardier in the bay area- that sealed the deal to trade.
In the Bay Area the Pink is usually more acid because of our cool weather. The white is often some what tasteless for lack of brix unless it ripens in high summer. The pink is definitely a stronger plant though, good going.
Hi. I just bought 1 plants but I don’t know how to plant it. Do I need grown in big pot. And when do I need fertilizer for plant I was try growing many time but it dead. Thank you
You will need either a tropical climate or a very large greenhouse for the vine. They do not survive cold weather or even light frosts. They are huge and do not fruit if pruned much. As for fertilizer fruit tree food will work in the garden. In pots osmocote or nutricote are best. Follow the label instructions on what ever fertilizer you use.
I have never seen a self sterile P. edulis but my feelings are that fruitless passiflora are fruitless because they are sterile. The pollen would probably not work. What gave you the idea that you edulis was sterile?
@@GreenGardenGuy1i believe the variety is called sweet sunrise. I was unaware at the time I bought it that it needed a pollinator. I later discovered it when I was doing a little research. It stated that the variety was self sterile. I've been hand pollinating the flowers to no avail. Earlier today I came across a non fruiting passion vine and took a flower so that I can try and use the pollen and see what happens.
I did some checking and found three answers, Self Pollinating, Self Sterile, No mention. My suggestion is plant a purple P. edulis next to it for pollination. You can run the two together on the trellis.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I was gonna do that back in May and I never got around to it mainly because I couldn't find anyone selling any cuttings. Thank you for your time and for the informative videos 👍
I will be listing fresh seeds for Purple Passion fruit and Giant passion fruit in the next couple month. Purple will come to fruit in less than two years from seeds.
Do you happen too have any giant passion fruit seeds laying arround love too get some from you and try too grow them. Let me know if you have any extra giant passion fruit seeds.
@@tigerthongchanh4451 Darn, well that explains a thing or two. I have the seeds but it appears I also have a glitch in the website. I will get with my web master and have it fixed asap. It should be back on the page soon. If not we will do a work around for you. Aloha.
I don't thinks it ripe. When its ripe the flesh is soft the butter and you then to smell the sweet aroma when you are close to it while its on the vine. I dont like adding milk when making a cold drink with this since the milk tends to curd sometimes with the mild acidity of the fruit. Just blend it with some pineapple and ice and make a good smoothie.
If my fruit had been any more ripe it would have been rotted. Small dark spots were aready forming on the rind. The juice had the sugar of good quality orange juice and was excellent right out of the rind. The rind was the texture of honey dew melon but not particularly sweet. At least here in Puna these fruits can't go any further on the vine than the one shown. Any that i leave longer just rot.
Enjoy. The juice is about the sugar and acid balance of orange juice. I usually get 1/2 a cup. The rind is also edible if peeled inside and out. Tastes like melon with low sugar. If you make a fruit salad with other fruit then cube the rind and add the juice back it works well.
The giant granaddilla is delicious, but youYou need to know about a very rare passiflora , poovenii or quijos granadilla, would be great if you come to Ecuador (Atahualpa town El Oro province) in April or May when this rare fruit is ready,d granadilla de quijos is the most fragant and delicious fruit of passiflora.family, you never gonna forget it when try one! HERMAN JAVIER PINEDA.
Nope, never tasted Passiflora poovenii. My current love is a hybrid passion fruit that is cross between P. edulis flavicarpa & P. laurifolia. I am pulling out most other varieties in favor of this one. High yield, strong growth and excellent fruit. If you have seeds for Passiflora poovenii I would be glad to make a trade for something I have.
Because the fruit is very large and the plant can only support so many most of the flowers produced on this plant do not set to fruit. It isn't what drops off that we count it is what remains. The vine is young and may not be ready to hold fruit. It usually requires vines of 16 to 20 feet before fruiting occurs. The weather may also be wrong or your pollination technique isn't working. Sorry there is no specific answer to your question. Bill
Only with the aid of a greenhouse and a furnace. These are tender tropical plants that have very limited range in the Mainland USA. South Florida, very Southern CA and Hawaii are about the limit of the range.
Yes, I sell them. Right now I have the Jamaican Passion fruit and the classic Hawaiian Lilikoi. Contact me at my email for more information. greengardenservice@yahoo.com
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I searched on Amazon India, and flip cart online shopping aaps. But i won't found this variety of plant. I think I have to look on nursery hope if it's available, here most of nursery don't have knowledge on fruit plant.
It takes time. The giant passion fruit doesn't flower young. It takes more than a year to start to see buds form. Otherwise, if your soil is deficient in phosphorus the vine will fail to flower well.
I looked at the fruits yesterday and they are still green. With in the next 30 days i should have seeds posted on my sales page at www.greengardenservice.net
Yes, we pick when the fruit is golden. Any more ripe and they rot on the vine. The flavor is similar to melon as is the texture but the rind never produces enough sugar to be palatable unless the sweet juice is added back to it. It works in a fruit salad with pineapple, banana and papaya.
