Foo - Now if I can find a way to ripen them...

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Chris L
06-19-04, 03:08 AM
This afternoon I started the annual prune of my passionfruit vine, now that the weather isn't warm enough to ripen them any longer. Of course, I figured there would be a few on there still, and maybe I could bring a few of them inside, and find a spot that might get a bit of sunlight to extract the last few for this particular season. Trouble was, "a few" was just a bit of an underestimate. Hence this little pile pictured below, which I would suspect represents about half of what I'm going to "harvest". Assuming I can find a way to ripen some of these buggers, who wants some passionfruit?

Fugazi Dave
06-19-04, 11:48 AM
Put 'em in a big paper bag with a couple apples.
AdrianB
06-20-04, 05:54 PM
You were right, passionfruit capital of the universe!

They will ripen off the vine but should be at least a little purple and not all green. Put 'em on the windowsill... They should ripen in colour and juiciness but probably little in sweetness. Enjoy your tart little buddies :eek:

Louis
06-20-04, 06:19 PM
Hmmmm...can you make wine from passionfruit?
Chris L
06-20-04, 09:36 PM
You were right, passionfruit capital of the universe!

They will ripen off the vine but should be at least a little purple and not all green. Put 'em on the windowsill... They should ripen in colour and juiciness but probably little in sweetness. Enjoy your tart little buddies :eek:

These ones don't turn purple, they are the exotic "banana passionfruit". A lot sweeter than the purple ones! In fact, I can only ever recall one shop selling these things up here. Oh yeah, I did get quite a few ripe ones off the vine in the end, those aren't in the picture. :eek:
AdrianB
06-20-04, 09:49 PM
On that note, enjoy!
jfmckenna
06-20-04, 09:55 PM
I have no idea what passion fruit is but it sure sounds good, if you can wait about two more weeks I can trade you tons of summer squash. Yes it sure is summer up here now. And btw summer here means 95deg F is a really hot day, and we dont get a whole lot of those :)

Actually I will also have a bunch of tomitillas, they almost look like those.