Your welcome! Glad to be of help!👍🏻

where did you get the plant from? :D

@@P47WarHawk My local Pike's Nursery! It is really invasive in the right climate! Georgia is the right climate! It has grown everywhere!

@@P47WarHawk I bought it in 2001. It said it could spread 30 feet. We were in a 7 year draught. The moment the draught ended, it leapt and is now potentially everywhere,even in the front yard! If you want to grow it,it is gorgeous and very easy to pull up,but prepare to do battle! Rose of Sharons,bamboo and even purple basil are the same way in Georgia! I have to constantly kill oaks,pines,maples,hickory etc. Everything grows here and tries to take over. So in the ideal climate,it's all basically kudzu! You have to be prepared to make a real effort to contain it! My akebia gets edible fruit on it! It's sweet like a custard with large black seeda. Not tangy at all. Just a mellow pudding flavor.

@@P47WarHawk I got it from Pike's Nursery in Atlanta.

In my yard! Trust me! If you grow it, train it on a trellis in an isolated field. It will send runners out in every direction. Fortunately it is easy to pull up. It's like mint or bamboo or kudzoo. It can take over.

I think you need two plants to get a better chance of fruit, if I remember correctly.

lyonheart84 UK exotic fruit gardening enthusiast cherimoya is fine, no fruit from it as yet, but that’s coz I need to put more effort into hand pollination! Sounds like your tree is loving it in your kitchen! Have you had fruit off it? Chris

@@gotropicaluk8362 hi Chris, no flowers yet as the 3 plants are only 2 years old plus the branches aren't really thick enough to support fruit. I suspect they might flower next year and I might well try to pollinate a couple of flowers to see what happens. Like you I have quite a few unusual exotic fruits. I overwinter them in my kitchen as I don't have a summerhouse yet. Some grown from seed and some bought. I have star fruit, guava, strawberry guava, longan, lychee, ice cream bean, jackfruit,cherimoya and cherimola, mango, papaya, roseapple, grapefruit, lime and Meyers lemon. Only the lemon and lime have fruits on so far but will see what happens if I can keep them alive lol 👍. Outside i have feijoa, persimmon, pawpaw, pomegranate, ugni, actinidia issai, blueberries and various figs, in a very small garden lol. Love your informative videos, regards, Brett

I live in Atlanta Georgia USA. This vine flowers in purple and white and bears fruit which tastes like custard or pudding with large black seeds. It's highly invasive here and sends runners out across the yard. The tag says it soreads 30 feet. It spreads much further. It is gorgeous! But. In my climate it absolutely wants to take over! The fruit is much like a kiwi in outer texture. But oblong and resembles a small potato. It tastes like pudding. Or custard and had large black seeds. Not at all bad. At it's full potential and in the right climate it runs everywhere! It's furtunately easy to pull up. I planted it in 2001 during a 7 year draught. Once it began to rain again, it has spread everywhere. I now pull it up every year and let it grow where I want it to grow. But no joke! It is capable of growing 300 feet or more. Up trees. Up fences etc.

Daniel Woods I’ve only had the plant for 3 years and it has produced for the last 2 years... I’ve read that it does need good summer temperatures to ripen, but if your in the south east you should be fine... regards Chris

lyonheart84 UK exotic fruit gardening enthusiast wow you certainly have quite a collection. Where abouts in the uk are you? Chris

lyonheart84 UK exotic fruit gardening enthusiast the persimmons and the paw paw are great ones to start with, as well as the Chilean guava, and loquats. All are bomb proof plants. If your in a urban area (ie a slight micro climate) then you may also be able to plant citrus. I currently have lemon, lime, kumquat, a grapefruit in the front garden and 2 types of satsuma planted in the ground. They all came through the last winter, which was a cold one, with up to 70% leaf loss and although most didn’t bloom this year have recovered amazingly well. the kumquat did flower and is now covered in fruits. It’s all a learning curve. The lemon has now been the longest in ground, 3 years, and is still doing great. So you never know unless you try. All the best with your garden! Chris

Yes I watched your citrus videos. I have one small Meyers lemon planted out in the garden. I plan to put one of those plastic Victorian bell covers over it on cold nights and maybe throw some Hessian sacks over the bell if it's very frosty and then remove the sacks for the daylight. Will only work while the plant stays small. It has small lemons on it already 😎

Colin Woodward I just bought two plants, both from a different nursery. I wouldn’t bother from seed, as you’ll be waiting up to 7 years for fruit! Both of mine are akebia Quintana, and so the cross pollination between them enables it to set fruit. Regards Chris

GoTropicalUK is the

Just to add to my comment, you convinced me to buy this. Two just arrived today from ebay at around £12 each and they look great. Really nice and bright leaves.

Hi sune, sorry for late reply! Yes you should be fine with that. I wouldn’t worry about the genetic strains... I think that they will actually produce some fruit with one plant, but you will get much better fruit set and more of them if they cross pollinate with another plant. All the best. Chris

Hi Chris, thank you for your reply. Actually, in the end I did find another supplier here last week and now I have two plants in my garden - so it seems that everything's going to be fine - All the best, Sune.

I just bought one that says is self fertile.

Tracy Jane I’m sure they will do fine. They are pretty tough plants!

Hi, I live in SC and plant 2 plants 1 week ago. In the same week I've planted very young passion fruit and hope they would produce fruit in the next 2 years. I've been on the internet and wanted to know how old the plant was before planting. On the other hand most plants are big when advertised on youtube. Also I wanted to know how long did it take for it to get out of hand before they prune them.

W Houeland no I don’t. All the plants that I would call “true Tropicals” like pineapple, dragon fruit, and coffee, are all grown in containers and spend the winter in my unheated greenhouse. They seem to do fine over winter. Regards Chris

William Herbert Cross pollination is when pollen grains from a flower on one plant, are carried to another flower on a different plant. Usually of the same species tho. (Some plants are known as self pollinating where the flowers on the same plant can be pollinated to produce fruit) The chocolate vine needs two different varieties for it to be able to produce the fruit. However, one plant on its own will happily grow and flower without fruit. 👍🏻

They would work as a wind barrier if it is grown up against a chain link fence…

Average January temperatures in my area are about 7c day and 2c night.

@@gotropicaluk8362 hmm...no minus degrees. I wonder if I can plant it in Germany, but we have temperatures below 0C also....

rafail18 yes we do have minus temps. 2c is the average night time temperature. We have had winters get as low as -5. But normally it will range from -2 or -3 to 4c or 5c at night during January. Hope that explains it a bit better.

@@gotropicaluk8362 okay. There's a bit difference. Last winter we had a few days up to -13 at night. Maybe I'll need some winter protection...

rafail18 it is hardy down to zone 5! Although it will keep its leaves all year in milder climates. So you should have no problems growing this.

trekking thru Portugal I think it set fruit the year after it was planted... it didn’t take long.👍🏻

@@gotropicaluk8362 ok thanks going to plant some cuttings this weekend. Let's see how it goes. Was told that I need at least 2 planted.

trekking thru Portugal you do need two varieties for fruit.👍🏻

@@gotropicaluk8362 ok thanks for the info.

@@gotropicaluk8362 thought it could be from the same mother plant.

I don’t think the seeds are toxic, but they’re not nice to eat. I imagine eating too many may have some adverse effects.🤢👍🏻

I wouldn't recommend eating the seed... prefer to spit them out. Theres quite a lot of them!

Well I thought not, but you never know! lol

In Japan they say the seeds cause constipation if consumed.

Yes it can.👍🏻

@@gotropicaluk8362 thank you. Is it possible to get the plant from you??

Anamika Kalai i don’t have any young plants to post out. You may want to find a nursery near to you that may have them, or may post to you. Where abouts are you?

@@gotropicaluk8362 from india

Ariel Cortez 😂 unfortunately no. I’m not sure why they really call it a chocolate vine, I suppose from the slightly sweet vanilla spiced scent of the flowers...

@@gotropicaluk8362 could it be that the fruit has a slight resemblance to a cacao pod?

@@AudreysKitchen maybe...🤔👍🏻

@@gotropicaluk8362 maybe it's the scent after all. I have some in my new garden and am eager to try it once the fruits mature. Thanks for the video!

although the plants bear both male and female flowers, the flowers need to be cross-pollinated with another individual of the same species to set fruit.

A very very healthy, nothing like hot chocolate... alternative.😂👍🏻

I think people have said that the seeds are bitter if you crunch them up? I don’t eat the seeds… spit them out.👍🏻