Best Passionfruit Variety for Sydney (forum)

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As the Title states, I am on the hunt for one or two (or even three) good passionfruit varieties for Western Sydney Climate (Parramatta Area - no frost usually).
Would love to hear your experience growing and tasting the fruit, which ones worked and which did not.

Cheers!

Time: 4th March 2025 1:20pm

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PlumRob says...
I have a few Passionfruit vines - a red one, a black one, a yellow one, and a banana, all from local bunnings/flower power. Only the black one has fruited for me and it was pretty good. Daleys has a bunch for sale, and I reckon you would be better off buying from them.

If I were you I would buy a black one (Daleys should have a better selection). They are easy to grow, self fertile, and taste great.
Sweet Granadilla is a really good (some say the best) passionfruit. I don't grow it yet, but I believe that it needs hand pollination with pollen from another plant. A black one is usually good.

Time: 18th March 2025 9:13pm

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Edward3 says...
I had the banana passionfruit but it was usually stung by fruit fly so not recommended. The black passionfruit is very good and productive. Panama gold and red were good too, but I had no luck at all with Sweet Lilikoi or granadilla x lilikoi, both from Daleys. They flowered beautifully every year, but not a single fruit in spite of hand pollination.

Time: 24th March 2025 12:38pm

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Jennaaayyy says...
Thanks Guys! That works well for me, I have two black ones that I have had for probably 5 years now and it is in a new location and it has two tiny green flowers on it, I am so very excited!

I have Panama Red Pandora and Sweet Granadilla in my basket at the moment.
Surprising with the banana one and the fruit flies, how frustrating! I was looking at those as well.
Have you noticed that the black ones slow down after 5 years of fruiting? I read this could/would be the case, wondering if that is true for Sydney area too...

Time: 24th March 2025 6:43pm

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