The Tropical Fruit Forum

Kaz, your yellow 'Dennis' sounds interesting for sure might have to try and get cutting sometime to graft onto flavicarpa or another passiflora.
Mike, I know Australians have developed many hybrids of edulis that are sweeter than what is in USA and the real good ones never leave your Country. To bad for us because would be nice to try some of those varieties in the States

Also Kaz, you mentioned 'black magic' did you get that one from Hoang? He sent me one one time and I thought that it was one of the sweetest p. edulis I ever tasted. Like you said I don't like p. decaisneana but do like a sweet/tart taste in passion fruit. I have a 'Possum Purple' that a friend gave me and the first fruit I got off that vine was very sweet to my taste. I do like my 'Fredricks' in my smoothies though so, search goes on for the very good passiflora edulis or hybrid of with good sweet tart flavor.

passiflora popenovii are notorious for being hard to sprout from seed unless you can get fresh seed. Most seed out there are to old to have good percentage to sprout for sure with p. popenovii.

Amazing for sure take cuttings and start more and name it like roblack mentioned very nice natural cross or something!

It's a young tree give it a chance to grow more before it will fruit. I would put in ground they don't like pot culture.

My surinam cherry trees are about 8'-10' tall and all self seed from dropped fruit, I'm on ancient sand dune soil with 40 yrs of mulch and horse poop they are like weeds under my Chamba variety.

I agree will Bill, most likely was a bud graft and that's on the right side with different bark than r.s. I had same problem with some paw paw's I bought small grafted trees that had two trunks and they to were budded low on r.s. grew into branch I don't know why they (Nursery) don't cut back or some how label correct branch that is variety you bought!

Kaz, that's a beautiful fruit for sure

Carolyn, you planted a seed from a tree with special meaning to you and a friend but really as you know seed can come true to type or most likely be a hybrid because you don't know where the bee or insect was before pollenating said tree. You can name it what ever you wish.

Pecan Pie variety came from Papaya Tree Nursery originally and the story is that David Silber who started nursery got into Lucuma and contacted a professor of Ag in Peru and he sent David scion wood of many varieties to try out in Ca. I think "Pecan Pie' was one of the better varieties that he propagated. Another person who introduced Lucuma to Ca. was Alfredo Chiri a member of Orange County Chapter CRFG.
https://ocfruit.com/Lucuma.php

Dan, thanks for reply but I don't do facebook but appreciate your reply.

No, the fruit sets in mid year to fall then following Jan-March fruit ripens and falls when ripe but fruit is still good keeps shape most of the time. So, really only takes about a year overall to set and ripen.

Sweet!

I think they hang on the tree for 2 calendar years which might explain the minimal fruiting

I have a Angelino loquat grafted to quince rootstock that is about 7 yrs. old now and only 5 foot tall. Good way to dwarf loquat tree.