When to start passion fruit seeds
★ How to: Grow Passion fruit from Seed (A Complete Step by Step Guide)
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grow passion fruit from sake
hi and welcome to project Diaries as you
can see I've got my weekly food waste
box so today I'm going to look through
it and see what can grow now as you can
see I've got some lemons I've got a
really squished apricot some mint some
peaches an aubergine but mostly today
I'm going to concentrate on these now
these are passion fruit and if you know
anything about passion fruit you don't
actually eat them when they're like this
what you need to do is wait until
they're all crinkly and sort of raisin
like then they become really juicy and
at their best so I'm going to do is take
this out of the wrapper and leave it on
the side for a bit and I'll come back to
that in a week or so so here they are
two weeks later as you can see they're
really wrinkly and they're just ready to
harvest now so as these were from food
waste the skin had actually pierced so
these are going to be really dry and a
bit moldy I wouldn't eat these or
suggest eating these from food waste
anyway but as you can see there's no
actual juice or moisture inside there
and it's all nice and dry for me to take
the seeds out here's a couple on a knife
already so I'm just going to put these
down there so I'm just going to gently
take them out one at a time and place
them back on the plate I will put them
on tissue paper later on to dry them up
yeah you can see it's really easy to get
the seeds out this way now if you're
trying this under usual circumstances
you just get a spoon and eat the juicy
fruit from the inside and spit out the
pips now I hear some of you saying but I
don't like eating passion fruit so my
reply would be why would you spend all
the time growing them if you're not
going to eat them the next step is just
spread them out on some kitchen roll now
you just want them nicely spread out so
they're not touching each other and just
leave them there for an hour or two and
they'll be perfectly dry now I'm not
sure if you can see this on the camera
if you can zoom in enough but I really
like these seeds they come with this
really sort of pitted texture that I
haven't seen anywhere else so yeah these
are my favorite little seeds so I'm
using my ever-faithful chocolate eclair
box as a propagator so I'm just going to
get the seeds I'm going to put about a
three in each section
once you've done that you just need to
push it in slightly with your finger you
don't want to go too deep
what about two or three times the
thickness of the the seed itself and
then just push the soil over so it's
nicely covered now I never cut any
drainage holes in these but you can if
you want but just water it in gently
make sure it's not too sodden then all
you need to do is just put the lid down
and keep this in a nice warm dry place
now as these seeds come with a really
hard shell this will actually take up to
three to four weeks to germinate and
push through to the soil but as you can
see they've just started to emerge
here they are a few days after
and this is just
days in once they've started to emerge
they really start growing quickly so
this is them two weeks in they're now
getting a bit too big for this pot so
I'm going to transfer them into their
own separate pots so you just get a
yogurt pot and a Brattle and punches
some holes in because these are going to
need some drainage now just make sure
the hole goes all the way through and a
couple rounding edges so next up just
fill the pot with multi-purpose compost
and use a spoon to dig a hole about an
inch deep
then using the spoon prise out the
seedling as gently as you can and try
not to break any of the roots
then place the seedling into the hole
that you just made and push it down
gently to try and make sure that all the
air pockets are out
then all you have to do is water it in
and repeat the same process for the
others
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here's the progress four weeks after the
seedlings emerge from the soil
and again after six weeks
so here we are eight weeks later all six
seeds did actually turn into better
plant this one was a slightly late
bloomer so he's a lot more smaller than
the others and unfortunately this one
was attacked by something and I just
woke up the other day and something just
snapped all the leaves off so I'm not
actually sure what maybe there's an
earwig or a slug but everything else
seems to be really successful these are
going really strong now I'm going to end
the video here because all that happens
is the leaves get a lot bigger and the
stem will just get stronger and thicker
so nothing will happen for the next few
months but I will do a follow-up video
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