passion fruit soft and yellow (forum)

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Could anyone suggest why my passionfruit fruit is yellow and soft rather than purple and hard? the vine is very healthy with an abundance of flowers and bees.
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Time: 7th January 2021 11:52am

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Waterfall says...
That's the rootstock you are growing.

Time: 8th January 2021 8:06pm

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KWD says...
I can't see how it could be both vines were purchased from Bunnings with a purple fruited label (one was a Ned Kelly), and what passionfruit grows soft and inedible?

Time: 12th January 2021 12:29pm

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Waterfall says...
The 5 prong leave is the rootstock, passionfruit has a 3 prong leave.

What happens is you get a shoot growing below the graft and it goes unnoticed and eventually takes over the whole vine.

I recommend never buying grafted passionfuit, in my experience they are a menace, they send up suckers all over the place even after the vine is long gone.

All the non-grafted vines we have planted have given fruit just as quick and there is no weed issue.

Time: 12th January 2021 2:54pm

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KWD says...
Thank you for your information, it is really appreciated, I couldn't find any thing on this.

Regards,

Time: 14th January 2021 8:07pm

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