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Waiting for Passion fruit to ripen


Our passion fruit vine started fruiting around August... 


New flowers were blooming and turning into fruits...


By mid September our vine was heavily laden with fruits. We were expecting them to ripen by October when the weather is supposed to be warm and conducive for ripening...


As luck would have it, there was rain in October and Bangalore turned unusually chilly...


The intermittent rain and chill continued...


If the weather turns cold, the fruits may not turn yellow. Our wait for the fruits to ripen in these past three months was like watching paint dry...


We finally decided to cut open a green fruit to see if it is edible. To our surprise it tasted good although not totally sweet...

Our wait continues...

44 comments:

  1. I love passion fruit. I"ve never seen it growing, however. The juice is quite tasty mixed with vodka or rum. Manju looks like a model for the passion fruit industry.

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  2. I love passion fruit. I"ve never seen it growing, however. The juice is quite tasty mixed with vodka or rum. Manju looks like a model for the passion fruit industry.

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  3. I giggled when I read "like watching paint dry" ... true! Enjoy the passion fruit!

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  4. I've never eaten passion fruit...they photograph beautifully

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  5. some plants indeed impress here.
    well done imagery.

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  6. I have never seen a passion fruit, just had it in juice. What a beautiful flower.

    I am new to co-hosting Share Your Cup and this post epitomizes the wonders of blogging. If not for the party, I might never have come across you, your blog, or the beauty of passion fruit.

    Thanks for Sharing Your Cup!

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  7. I love the passion vine flower, never knew it fruited! Yummy

    Jem
    Www.jemseclectichome.com

    #pitstop

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  8. I love the passion vine flower, never knew it fruited! Yummy

    Jem
    Www.jemseclectichome.com

    #pitstop

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  9. I love your photos. I have never tried passion fruit. I have seen the passion flower before here, but I did not know that it was part of a plant with fruit! Now I am going to look for a passion fruit in my grocers.

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  10. I adore passion fruit. Once I retire, I plan to grow some plants in a greenhouse so I can have all I want.

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  11. Mmmm - looks luscious. Your series is beautiful - hope you'll come link up at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2016/01/nosey-cat-yep.html

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  12. Beautiful flower. Love the fruit too!

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  13. Such a beautiful post! Love all the photo shares too. HPS! Happy New Year and enjoy your weekend.

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  14. Nice post! Hope it sweetens up properly.

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  15. Enjoyed this post very much. It is the first time I have actually seen the inside of a passion fruit. I am familiar with the flowers, which are always so intricate. Your photos are lovely. The portrait of your wife? Forgive me if I assume but she is a lovely lady with a pretty smile and the lighting is perfect. Thank you for sharing with Today's Flowers. I wish you a very happy week.

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  16. I have never seen the inside of that fruit either -- we do have passion flowers here in Florida (but we don't garden ourselves) so I have never tasted the fruit. I will have to look for them ; someone must sell them somewhere. A fun post.

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  17. Beautiful! I love passion fruit vines - we have tons of the around here, and I think they are gorgeous. I've never seen any of them fruit, though. We are planning to put quite a few of them around the yard...I'll be interested to see if they bear fruit here. Thanks for sharing with us at Photo Friday!

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  18. These are beautiful photos. The blossom is gorgeous!

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  19. Absolutely beautiful blossoms and I can only imagine the sweetness of the fruit! Thanks so much for sharing the love up-close with I Heart Macro :)

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  20. I love passion fruit. Very interesting to see the ripening process and to hear how small weather changes can make a big difference in the taste of the fruit. Thanks for sharing at the Blogger's Pit Stop.

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  21. wonderful photos...i've never eaten passion fruit before but have had the juice.

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  22. Thank you for sharing at this week's Wordless Wednesday (on Tuesday) at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2016/01/shells-on-shells.html

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  23. It does look good. I hope you get to eat it before birds get to it or it rots.

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  24. It does look good. I hope you get to eat it before birds get to it or it rots.

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  25. Passion Fruit reminds me so much of my childhood days. Your photos look great. My favorite is the flower.

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  26. One of my favorite fruits, but I didn't see it on the "tree" before.

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  27. I don't think I've ever seen passion fruit. Lovely flowers.

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  28. The flower is so beautiful and I love eating the fruit

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  29. What a beautiful flower and a yummy passion fruit.

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  30. Gorgeous flowers and fruit. Enjoy those passionfruit. Our weather has been a little odd this year too, the plants are confused!

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  31. Our passionfruit tree just died. So sad. Love passionfruit.

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  32. Oh...tropical fruit like this are so delicious! Beautiful photos.

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  33. Beautiful captures! Thanks to the model. ;)

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  34. Wow, lovely photos and some lovely fruit too. I think I saw that was your wife in the pictures, so say thank you to her for letting you share her image too!

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  35. What a lovely collection of photos - really tells its own story. Thank you for sharing.

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  36. Those passionfruit need to turn purple and wrinkled before they get harvested! :-)
    Many thanks for joining us at Floral Friday Fotos!

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  37. I would love to try those passion fruits. Thanks so much for sharing with "Through my Lens"

    Mersad
    Mersad Donko Photography

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