Passion fruit, a beloved exotic fruit by many, “lives” in mountainous regions and does not tolerate heat well.
This means that you can grow the crop yourself even in regions characterized by a cool climate, reports Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication BelNovosti, an agronomist, and a landscape designer.
Where to get seeds? It's simple - you need to go to a large supermarket, where you will probably find passion fruit.
Please note: To get fruit, you may need two different plants blooming at the same time to cross-pollinate, as plants are naturally cross-pollinating.
If you get a commercial variety, things will go even easier, since they have already become self-pollinating.
Another important point: the passion fruit flower lives only one day, so if pollinated prematurely, the flowers fall off without producing an ovary.
Pollination should occur between midday and three o'clock in the afternoon, when the flower's pistil becomes active.
If pollination is carried out correctly, passion fruit produces a lot of fruit (up to 80% of buds form ovaries).
Edible passion fruit bears fruit even when grown in a pot without additional illumination with phytolamps. Decorative passionflower, as well as its hybrids, bloom with beautiful flowers, but do not bear fruit.
Finally, we note that after picking, passion fruit should be left to lie for a while so that the pulp inside can fully ripen – only then can they boast an incredibly delicate sweet taste and aroma.
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Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
