Thursday, November 12, 2009

My Passion fruit vine is blooming! Can you tell me what to expect next?

My Passion Fruit vine (variety Purple Possum) is three years old, and just started to bloom for the first time. Will there be fruit if I only have one vine? What do they look like? How do I tell when they are ripe?

My Passion fruit vine is blooming! Can you tell me what to expect next?
If you have the same variety I have the fruit will be anywhere from yellow-green to a deep yellow-orange with bright red seeds inside. I can send you photos of the flowers and fruit if you like.
Reply:Actually, it is the flowers that you eat. You can make tea out of the leaves. It is a calming herb that is a sedative. It is good for insomnia and nervousness and hysteria.


The flowers are good in a salad or eaten raw. Check out hte link.





http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/DVH/HerbsTa...
Reply:You can get fruits from one vine if you pollinate it. This can be done by delicately dabbing the anthers of the flowers with a Q-tip. This spreads the pollen from one flower to another, and it they should bear.


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