My passion fruit, a feast of beauty and flavor🍋Venezuela [EN-ES]
My passion fruit, a feast of beauty and flavor
Warm greetings, members of #hivegarden. I am delighted to have this opportunity to join you to socialize and share impressions of this year's passion fruit harvest, grown in a small space in the central plains of Venezuela.
But before that, a prelude expressing that although I have invariably felt rewarded by the benefits of interacting with Mother Earth, the bond and involvement were sporadic and sober, almost always limited to moments of leisure, linked to vacation periods, and did not include the care and cultivation of a garden.
However, my experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic would bring about a profound transformation of unexpected proportions. As a healthcare worker, I spent days battling the virus, isolating myself from my loved ones for long periods of time to protect them and avoid spreading the infection. I would come home during my breaks and seek calm amid the terrifying confinement.
This is how my mutual relationship with the garden came about. Small but comforting, it generates magical and prodigious effects, enhancing and triggering rewarding emotions that catalyze my stress and annihilate my unease, forging well-being and tranquility as part of my healthy lifestyle.
Venezuela is rich in geographical, climatic, and landscape diversity, which translates into heterogeneity. During the year, we have two periods: one dry and one rainy. I live in a savanna area with a hot, dry climate. Cultivating plants during the drought, in an effort filled with love and commitment, eagerly awaiting the rainy season.
This year in particular has been subject to considerable climatic fluctuations, conditioned by meteorological phenomena, with long periods of rain that have brought the season forward, causing changes in my crops. My passion fruit and guava harvests have benefited from these unexpected events, flourishing and producing more fruit. The squash has also produced more fruit, but I have had to take certain measures to counteract waterlogging and reduce the risk of the vegetable rotting.
Today, I will enthusiastically dedicate these lines to joyfully extol my passion fruit crop, an exquisite feast of beauty and flavor. Here, variety is the norm, along with color, beauty, and the pulsating dominance of its flavor. It is reciprocity in a favorable alliance represented by synergy, in a win-win relationship.
It is a friendly and accommodating plant, gracefully tolerating high temperatures and long periods of drought. As a member of the climbing plant family, it has mischief and irreverence in its genes, so it must be guided and given limits on how far its vines can spread. I have never used commercial fertilizers on it, only homemade compost made from vegetable scraps, eggshells, and, when I have had it, cattle manure.
In my particular experience, my plant only flowers and bears fruit when the rain arrives; the changes brought about by its manifestations are unquestionable. When the process begins, new branches emerge, followed by new leaves, and then buds of a deep, penetrating green.
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These buds are the guardians of the beauties that are about to emerge, the charming and colorful flowers. What insect can resist such sculptural beauty? And once the purpose is achieved, the long-awaited fruits will arrive.
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As you can see, this process repeats itself over and over again, which is why you can see the different stages occurring at the same time, flowers next to new buds, fruits next to flowers—it really is quite a spectacle.
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There is no need to rush the process. When the fruit is ready to eat, it will change from a deep green to shades of yellow, depending on the species, and when ripe, it will fall from the bush.
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Although sometimes the fruits and flowers of the passion fruit plant have fallen earlier than expected, due to the antics of my cat Pepita, who loves to climb and walk around the vine, and, if she sees me taking pictures, quickly strikes a flirtatious pose to be included. I bid you farewell until another time, when I will share my experience with another crop.
Mi parchita, un festín de belleza y sabor
Cordiales saludos miembros de #hivegarden. Estoy encantada de tener esta oportunidad de unirme a ustedes para socializar y compartir impresiones experienciales, sobre mi cosecha de este año de parchita (maracuyá), cultivada en un reducido espacio, en las llanuras centrales de Venezuela.
Pero antes de ello, un preludio que expresa que, aunque siempre me he sentido recompensada por los beneficios de interactuar con la Madre Tierra, el vínculo y la implicación eran esporádicos y sobrios, casi siempre limitados a momentos de esparcimiento, coligado a los periodos vacacionales, y no incluían el cuidado y el cultivo de un jardín.
Sin embargo, lo vivido durante la pandemia del COVID-19, generaría en mí una profunda metamorfosis de dimensiones insospechadas. Como personal sanitario, pasé días batallando contra el virus, aislándome de mis seres queridos durante largos períodos de tiempo, para protegerlos y no ser fuente de contagio. Volvía a casa durante mis descansos y buscaba la calma en medio del aterrador confinamiento.
Así surgió la mutualidad con el jardín, pequeño pero reconfortante, generador de efectos mágicos y prodigiosos, al ser un potenciador y desencadenante de emociones gratificantes, catalizadoras de mi estrés y aniquiladoras del desasosiego, forjando el bienestar y la placidez como parte de mi estilo de vida saludable.
Venezuela, es suculento en pluralidad geográfica, climatológica y paisajística, lo que se trascribe en heterogeneidad. Durante el año tenemos dos períodos, uno seco y uno lluvioso. Vivo en una zona de sabana con un clima cálido y seco. Cultivar las plantas durante la sequía, es un esfuerzo lleno de amor y compromiso, en la espera con anhelo de la temporada de lluvias.
Este año en particular ha estado subordinado a considerables fluctuaciones climáticas, condicionadas por fenómenos meteorológicos, con largos períodos de lluvia que se han adelantado al período, lo que ha generado cambios en mis cultivos. Mis cosechas de parchita y guayaba han recibido con satisfacción, estos imprevistos floreciendo y produciendo más frutos. La auyama también ha aumentado sus frutos, pero he tenido que tomar ciertas medidas, para contrarrestar el encharcamiento y aminorar el riesgo de que la hortaliza se pudra.
Hoy dedicaré con entusiasmo estas líneas para ensalzar con alegría mi cosecha de parchita, un exquisito festín de belleza y sabor. Aquí la variedad es la pauta, junto con el color, la belleza y el dominio vibrante de su sabor. Es reciprocidad en una alianza favorable representada por la sinergia, en una relación en la que todos ganan.
Es una planta amable y complaciente, que tolera con gallardía las elevadas temperaturas y los vastos períodos de sequía. Como miembro de la familia de las plantas trepadoras, tiene la travesura e irreverencia en sus genes, por lo que debe guiada y generarle límites en la extensión de sus enredaderas. En ella nunca he utilizado fertilizantes comerciales, solo compost casero hecho con restos vegetales, cáscaras de huevo y, cuando lo tengo, estiércol de ganado.
En mi experiencia, mi planta solo florece y da frutos cuando llega la lluvia; los cambios a través de sus manifestaciones son incuestionables. Cuando inicia el proceso, se evidencia la emergencia de nuevas ramificaciones y con ello nuevas hojas, los acompasados capullos de un verde crecido y penetrante seguirán el desfile.
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Estos pimpollos son los guardianes de las bellezas que estarán por emerger: las coquetas y coloridas flores. ¿Qué insecto puede resistirse a tan escultural belleza? Y al lograrse el propósito, llegarán los ansiados frutos.
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Como puedes ver, este proceso se repite una y otra vez, por lo que se pueden observar las diferentes etapas ocurriendo a la vez: flores junto a nuevos brotes, frutos junto a flores… Es realmente un espectáculo digno de ver.
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No necesitas acelerar el proceso. Cuando la fruta está dispuesta a su degustación, irá tornándose desde un verde intenso hacia tonalidades amarillas. Eso dependerá de la especie y, al obtener su madurez, caerá del arbusto.
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Aunque en ocasiones, los frutos y las flores de la planta de maracuyá han caído antes de lo esperado, debido a las travesuras de mi gata Pepita, a la que le encanta trepar y pasearse por la enredadera y, si me ve haciendo fotos, rápidamente adopta una pose coqueta para salir en ellas. Me despido hasta otra ocasión en la que compartiré mi experiencia con otro cultivo.
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Such a lovely harvest, the colors and fruits look amazing 🍋💚
This is one of my favorite😍. I love this fruit so much. Paired with salt and vinegar. My mouth is watering looking at the pictures
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I've known this fruit as a tropical fruit this is very good most especially of you're in a diet...this helps in digestion and is loaded with vitamins especifically vitamins c.
Wow, this fruit has been one of my favorites since childhood..if we know that it's time for them to bear fruit, my siblings and I keep checking them every day until it is ripe. We even have a territory to climb and look for since some of the passion fruit here are climbing on the trees or anything that their vines can climb.
It's nice you've found nature a safe haven, where you can find peace and tranquility in difficult times.
Nature has blessed you with good harvest of the fruit. I haven't eaten the passion fruit before, I don't think we even have it in my region. Hope that I'll get to see and enjoy it someday.
These are great photos you share with us. Pepita is indeed a photo lover. 😅
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