Just one small flower pot, grow the king of juice at home in a container, so many fruits they break the branches, fresh fruit to eat all year round

A friend gave me a box of egg fruit, saying it is especially nutritious. I tried one and found it a bit sour, so I left it sitting there, and after sitting too long it went bad, which was really a shame. Luckily its seeds can be used for container growing, and in the future I can just pick them and eat!

Egg fruit, which is what we call passion fruit, also known as Passiflora, is very high in nutritional value and fairly expensive, selling in supermarkets for around 30 yuan per jin or more.

Egg fruit is rich in 17 amino acids essential to the human body as well as various vitamins, and has long been called the "king of juice." Its pulp is very juicy. Unripe egg fruit tastes rather sour, and to eat it you have to wait until it is especially soft and mushy (of course, not the spoiled kind). Adding a little sugar and making it into juice tastes really good.

When egg fruit blooms, the flowers are large and beautiful. Grown in a pot, the fruit can be eaten and the flowers enjoyed, making it an excellent ornamental garden plant, and for container growing it only needs a small pot of just over 20 cm to grow.

It has strong adaptability, is free of pests and diseases, tolerates heat and cold, and is not demanding about soil, but soft, well-drained and fertile soil is more helpful for it to set fruit.

Egg fruit also likes a sunny, warm environment and likes water, so the soil should normally be kept moist, but waterlogging should be avoided.

Egg fruit can be grown by directly buying seedlings, or the seeds can be separated from the fruit, washed, dried in the sun and then sown.

After seedlings grow, repot them for planting. Once the seedlings are successfully separated and planted, keep 1-2 main vines to train onto a trellis, cut away excess side branches, and within a short time the vines can cover the balcony.

Egg fruit bears fruit only once a year, but its flowering period and fruiting period are both very long. Apart from January to May each year, it flowers and fruits in all the other months, and the fruit ripens quickly; for example, flowers that open in May and June have fruit that is roughly ripe by mid-July, and afterward it will bloom again and bear fruit again, so it really is quite productive.

Grow one egg fruit in a pot, and I suggest you build it a trellis, and it can climb all over your balcony, with so many fruits they break the branches, giving you fresh fruit all year round, to pick and eat whenever you want.