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Another native #fruit from the #Amazon ! Tangy, salty, and bursting with flavour all year long, it's easy to imagine how the #passionfruit got its name. Here at #FincaDelSoul we mostly grow the yellow form, Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa (known as #maracuyá in most of western #Amazonia), which is more suited to the ultra-tropical climate of the lowland #AmazonRainforest. Sometimes the #Passiflora vines get devoured in caterpillar season, but these are going strong! Are you passionate about #Reforestation and #SustainableLiving ? Do you want to grow (and eat!) a radical #abundance of fruit? Finca Del Soul is currently accepting volunteers to help us grow this movement, spread the abundance, and climb all over everything ugly until it gets shaded out and strangled and eventually disintegrates. (This offer is not available in stores.) https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/volunteer/finca-del-soul/ #fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism #veganarchist #veganarchism #veganic #rainforest #gardening #FoodForest #FruitForest #FoodFreedom #GrowYourOwn #SolarpunkSunday #volunteer #volunteering
  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    Video never loads for me.

    But I just planted a passion fruit (P. edulis) that someone gifted me this last summer. I’m unsure if it will survive winter here.

    My community garden also has many P. caerulea which are typically grown for the flowers and not the fruit but I enjoy them. Much sweeter than other passion fruits.

    • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      From what I’ve read, P. edulis can survive brief/light frost if protected, and the purple form is more cold-tolerant than the yellow.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
        3·
        4 months ago

        I can’t remember which form I got. But yes I’ve heard of people growing them successfully here, that’s probably where my cutting came from. The only issue is it’s still very small going into winter so I’m worried that might affect its ability to last and bounce back.

        But on the other hand it’s planted in my back garden which is surrounded by heated buildings on all sides, so I’ve never actually seen frost back there. For all of the disadvantages of urban gardening, there are some advantages.

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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          4 months ago

          You can start it on a pot and being it inside for this first winter. Replant it in the spring. Or just cover it with some fabric to keep frost off of it. But you have to remember to uncover it for sunny days.

            • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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              4 months ago

              I use “frost shield” for the plants I cannot move. Any nonwoven fabric should do the trick. All it does is separate the ice from the majority of leaves, while allowing the plant to breathe and some light through.

              That’s why you have to uncover on sunny days, so the plant get some sunlight and the melting frost doesn’t weigh down on three fabric and burns the leaves anyway.