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My garden is producing pawpaws, far too many to consume, even aftergiving away to friends I still have these bright orange fruit telling me they are there to be eaten everywhere I turn.

My granadillas are coming on too. (I scoop these and freeze them for the rest of the year)

I have made some juice for the first time by whizzing up the fresh pawpaw, mint, some passion fruit and water...

I then added a little lemon juice and some cold water.

Then felt it needed sugar...after straining it, it was very delicious to drink But I would love to have a T & T recipe to follow to make a strong flavoured, clear, pawpaw drink.

Thanks

 
Indeed. What are you doing right? Do you not have bug problems?

I always found them difficult to deal with. Here, no, no pawpaw. No nothing yet. In fact, we had HOT weather and now I have to keep the doors closed. I understand that this is the last cool week.

But no hurricanes...yet.

 
Yes, it would be CathyZ. Strangely I only had the purple ones in Africa.....

Passiflora edibilis or something like that....We had vigorious vines in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and I grew them in S.Africa too.

1st time I met with a yellow skinned one was in Brazil. These ones were quite sour and one added sugar to them. They also are much larger with a much thicker skin and one does not leave them to shrivle up before eating as one does to the purple ones.

Here we grow the yellow/orange ones and can buy the purple ones.
I managed to grow a couple of the purple vines myself from the seeds but they didn't produce very many fruit at all. The yellow ones are rampant here and do not need sugar.
ALL of them look the same inside and the taste is much the same too.

I have a family story that is told in horror by my ancient Aunts....They were traveling from Africa to visit family in the UK in those far off days where it 2 weeks to sail home (no commercial flights for the average traveller in those day....hey this is still with-in my life time too!!).....
and took as a gift a couple bags of their much prized purple granadillas.

At tea with some relatives they produced these wonderous fruit to much exclamations of delight. Satisfied their gift had been so well received they carried on with their journey.

Some months later the letter from these relatives came thanking them for the "bulbs" and wondering when they were supposed to show their heads and anyway what kind of "bulbs" were they?


I just found this on google.....
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A granadilla is any of several species of plants of the genus Passiflora, e.g.:

the granadilla (South African English for passion fruit, Passiflora edulis)

 
I thought so. I loveed the story, Joanie- we have the yellow/orange ones here in Hawaii

I haven't seen the purple ones but i is possible they grow here too.

The story is remarkable. Hah! They planted the 'bulbs'!

Thanks for all the info

 
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