Sometimes things that happen by accident turn out for the best. One time a friend was given several passionfruit in a paper bag. She put them in the fridge. They got pushed to the back as things often do in fridges and as a result she forgot about them.
By the time she discovered them they were all shriveled, so she decided to see if she could grow a passionfruit from the seeds.
She planted them all in soil in pots. Sure enough in time little green shoots appeared. When the passionfruit plants were about eighteen inches high she moved hers to where she wanted them and gave one to us saying, ’I don’t know how it will work, but it’s worth a try.’ She knows I love passionfruit. As far as I’m concerned there is no such thing as too many passionfruit.
So Mick planted our gift passionfruit along with a couple of others along a trellis Mick built. The result is now we have a trellis smothered in passionfruit vines and laden with passionfruit. I, for one can’t wait for them to ripen. The passionfruit she kept for herself are doing equally as well. These are just the normal black variety what is known as Nellie Kellie here.
We intend to try it ourselves this year. I guess I can pare one or two passionfruit to get more in future. I’ll let you know in time how it goes.
It’s also possible to grow stone fruit like peaches and plums and apricots from seed, When we lived in Orange, we had one came up from a peach seed that was thrown in the compost heap. It grew quickly and fruited prolifically.
So next time you’ve finished eating the fruit try planting the seed. You might end up with a free fruit tree out of it.
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