Hi Gardening Family! Is anyone able to help with some tips on getting my passionfruit to ripen? I have so many on the vine and they're all nice and big, they've been on there for a few weeks and seem to have stopped growing however they're not really changing colour and ripening. I have picked some off – will they ripen without being on the vine? I have to give it a trim and there are so many passionfruit, I don't want to lose them all (instead share them with the neighbours) If I pick them all off now still being green will that be okay?
Thanks in advance!
by Subject_Experience32
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They won’t ripen off the vine. They can take a couple of months (or longer through winter) to ripen and will drop off the vine when ripe.
Don’t pick them off the vine, when they’re ready they’ll drop off.
Only **fruit that has begun to colour** will finish ripening off the vine.
**Fully green fruit will not.** They’ll shrivel instead of sweetening. **Wait for natural drop** — ripe passionfruit usually fall off on their own.
Do you have the yellow or purple variety ? We have yellow. So when they are turning yellow on the vine we pick them and put them in a bowl on the kitchen bench
They won’t ripen. You have to wait for them to fall off the vine, then they’re ripe