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Passion fruit harvest

Hi I have passion fruit growing in my garden, I’ve looked up and it says to pick fruit when it’s purple but mine only seem to go from green to orange then dies can you advise? 

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Not something I have any experience of, but I came across this article that says that the yellow fruited variety is ready sometime between the end of summer through to winter.
    The purple fruited variety blooms earlier and is ready to eat earlier too - usually at the end of summer.
    https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/vines/passion-flower/how-to-harvest-passion-fruit.htm

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  • Will depend on your variety.  The only edible one I am aware of is the P edulis which I have grown on and off - usually in a GH - for a number of years.
    The fruits are dark green/brown and slowly turn black with a hard  "shell " .  I find mine usually are ready to harvest by October in most years.
    The plant in your photo looks more like the basic P cerulea which is not particularly edible.  The flowers and the colour of your fruit would suggest that may well be what you have.
  • @leeali86 Hello, from your photo I'd say it a passiflora caerulea. The fruits stay orange on this variety and they aren't very nice really, quite bland and full of seeds but still edible.
  • As the others have mentioned, the species you have is more ornamental and the edible species of passion fruit tend to need warmer climates than ours to fruit well. 
  • Thank you all for your replies I will just keep it as an ornamental then 👍
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