Exotic Tropical Fruit: Passion Fruit
Passiflora edulis, commonly known as passion fruit, is originally from Southern Brazil. Famous in its aroma, passion fruit also has the name of " fruit with hundreds of fragrance" in Asia, since it has the aroma of pomegranate, strawberry, and pineapple, etc. With strong adaptability and better cultivation, now passion fruits are cultivated all over the world.
Harvest at the end of the summer to fall, passion fruits can be eaten directly when it's ripe. Inside the passion fruits, the watery golden pulp with black seed is where the passion fruits aroma coming from. With a refreshing, sweet yet slightly tart taste, the passion fruit pulp is commonly used to make beverages, dessert, and seasoning, enhance the level of taste and make dessert sweet but not greasy.
Nutrition value in Passion Fruit
Rich in nutritional value, the passion fruit pulp is rich in essential amino acids, vitamins, carotene, and various minerals required by the human body, often used for refreshing, beauty, and digestion. In addition to the rich taste, the nutrients contained in passion fruit are easily absorbed by the human body, which is also good for pregnant and children.
How do You Know When Passion Fruit is Ripe?
When a passion fruit becomes mature, the green color on its surface fades and gradually turns red. After being harvested and stored for a period of time, the peel of passion fruit will appear sunken, at the same time, the flesh will be more fragrant and sweet.
The stronger the fragrance, the better the ripeness, and the better the taste.
The high-quality passion fruit should have a special fragrance. When choosing passion fruit, you should choose the one that is full and round with a strong passion fruit aroma.
How to Plant Passion Fruit in Your Garden?
Passion fruit is a sun-loving plant, can grow better in a warm and sunny climate. Also, its adaptability is very strong. Passion fruit is not strict on the soil requirement, but it can grow better on loose, fertile, rich organic matter, and well-drained land. In order to grow passion fruit successfully, keep the soil moist during growth—passion fruit can not survive in drought and soil with stagnant water.
Growing Passion Fruit from seed:
Take out the seeds from the passion fruit that has been stored for a long time and dry it.
Before sowing, soaked the seeds in water for 24 to 28 hours.
Find a container as a nursery box, fill it with soil, and put the seeds in.
Seal the nursery box after watering and moistening, and wait for germination.
After budding, find some small containers and poke a few holes in the bottom to drain water. Plant the passion fruit seedlings with roots into the small container separately. Be careful not to damage the root of the plant when transplanting.
Transplant the plant into a large pot when it gets bigger
It takes a long time to cultivate passion fruit from seeds to seedlings. Usually, people propagate passion fruit from cuttings, which allows the plant to grow quicker and easier. Passion fruit is a vine plant that depends on the support of a trellis. When the passion fruit has grown to a certain level, remember to transplant it to a place with trellis support or build a fence door, fence wall, or fence net yourself!