Thank Mike for the headup on Marketing name. i will take a pass on the African passionfruit misnomer.
I got a wild amazon super sweet passion from brazil that I am going to be crossing with Berto lb giant tart. if history is any indication should be around the seven year i will have a stable Giant Berto Sweet that will grow wild and take over South Florida.
Here in good old USA we like our passion fruit tart, than we dump in tons of refine sugar or high fruitose corn syrup or dextrose to make it sweet & develope that complex taste ( Famous Obese Chefs here called it deconstruct) in our ice cream, drinks etc. That is why we have the highest obesity & diabetes on planet earth follow by our Mexican neighbor to the south.
Yeah I prefer my fruit naturally sweet rather than synthectic adulteration.
Now if I can only breed a passionfruit that taste like chicken, the Amazon Indian will stop shooting all those poor monkeys for diner, that those monkeys have been selecting my wild amazonia sweet passion fruit from the natural tart for the last several millenium. Ever notice tart guava lack protein but sweet guava here in Florida come a little extra fancy meaty if one keep eyes while enjoying its natural squirminess? So yes sweet passion fruit attract monkeys for higher energy than tart one.
Anyway I have been overly proud of breeding passionfruit for the last decade for great size & woody disease resistance, cold hardiness & heavy production in Florida laterite soil. I thought my size of a Canadian Goose egg accomplishment was jumbo until Berto show me his giantnormous atomic bomb; unfortunately it is a tart acidic variety. Why develope my own true sweet giant yellow invasive Floridian frankenstein? Well i have grown many florida & california varieties & not impress with their vigor, taste, etc. Purple sweet taste like vinegar, tart that taste worst than a jug of distill vinegar. Nematodes & cold eat them alive. So you are lucky that Australia have many dedicate enthuse breeder of more sweet & complex passion fruit for fresh eating. No wonder those Aussies I have met over the years so good looking healthy lean
Breed on the Sugar Loaf Passion Fruit.
oh I better check on Adam's pineapple arriving yesterday.