The XM ChallengePassion Fruit – The XM Challenge https://www.rickbergen.net Help Plant 1,000 Churches Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:01:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 169531157 Passion Fruit https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=783 https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=783#comments Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:19:05 +0000 Rick Bergen http://www.rickbergen.net/?p=783

About six months ago we planted a few passion fruit seedlings. We just harvested our first two ripe fruit.

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Passion fruit is one of our favorites for juice. It’s right up there with fresh-squeezed orange juice, biribá, cupuaçu, and açai.

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Passion fruit has the most exquisite blossoms. The whole vine is worth growing just to see the blossoms, and smell their fragrance. And then we get the fruit too, like a bonus.

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Passion fruit blossom.

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Passion fruit grows on a vine and turns yellow when it is ripe.

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Unripe passion fruit.

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Our first two ripe passion fruit.
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Yara gave us a cactus plant. Bella planted it in a little pot outside. It is now about 4 feet high. Cactus! Here in the Amazon! It is growing just a few feet from our passion fruit vines.

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