Yellow Passion Fruit – 5 Seeds

Yellow Passion Fruit Seeds. Passion Fruit (Yellow) scientific name is Passiflora edulis flavicarpa. It is also known as Golden Passion Fruit and some people in South Africa refer to it as Guavadilla. The Yellow Passion fruit  bears a slightly larger fruit than the purple granadilla and the skin is also much smoother and glossy. Yellow passion fruit tends to  yield much higher amount of fruit than the purple variety and it is also more resistant to diseases.

The plant is almost entirely self-incompatible, meaning its flowers must receive pollen from a genetically different plant (another cultivar) to set fruit. If you are growing a single yellow passion fruit vine, you will need to plant another, different cultivar nearby to ensure successful pollination and fruit production.

Yellow Passion Fruit Culinary & Other Uses

• The fruit can be eaten fresh or consumed after extracting the pulp and making juice.
• The juice is used in a variety of products and the pulp may be added to different dishes.
• A wide range of cosmetic products and food flavours are derived from the fruit that is rich in Vitamins A and C and carotene.

Growing Yellow Passion Fruit

Indoor Sowing: Spring and Summer.

Direct Sowing: Not Recommended.

• Ideally, you should start passion fruit vines in a separate, protected container and later transplant them to your prepared garden spot.
• Scarify the seed coat with a nail file or some fine sandpaper, as it helps the germination process.
• Soak the Passion Fruit Seeds for twenty-four hours in warm water to break dormancy.
• Fill a pot that’s 10cm across and has drainage holes with an all-purpose compost.
• Moisten the compost until water drains from the holes.
• Press the seeds into the compost.
• Cover the seeds with a thin layer of compost.
• Lower the pot into a large zippered plastic storage bag.
• Seal the bag and set it in a warm space, such as your kitchen windowsill.
• Do not allow the compost to dry.
• Monitor the seeds until they germinate.
• Passion fruit seed germination usually takes about 20 days, but it can sometimes take months to  germinate, even under ideal conditions, so patience is required.
• Plant the individual passion vine seedlings in 10cm pots filled with the same multipurpose compost.
• Dig a hole approximately 5cm deep before lowering the seedling and back-filling with the original medium.
• Maintain evenly moist soil and transplant the seedlings when they reach a height of 25cm.
• Passion Fruit vines thrive in well-drained soil with a pH of 6.5 to 7.5, and full sunlight to partial shade.