And here's a picture of the li'l tyke:

And I'm not 100 percent sure yet, but it does appear that another Amethyst ovary is starting to swell also. :-)

Hopefully you'll get some viable seeds.
Karyn

WOW!!!!!
Good Job!! That is just beautiful...I'm so glad you posted a pic..
Chena

Nice job with Amethyst! Hope you get some seeds in there. Even if you got one or two it would be worth planting. Let us know if you get any. I have LL and have never had any fruit so I guess mine must be a correct identity. My LL is favored by hummingbirds -they go to it first everyday to check for flowers before scouting the other plants and still no fruit. So LL is surely sterile.
~SJN

I also have a LL. It's my most prolific bloomer and fastest grower. Too bad it's not one of my favorites. I wish they all grew like that one. I know that the LL doesn't set fruit but can it's pollen be used to pollinate a different variety?
Karyn

Karyn, I believe the word on Lavender Lady is that it is completely sterile. So no, it can't even pollinate another. Amethyst doesn't produce viable pollen either, IIRC, and I know for a fact that Incense produces a whole lot of pollen, but all of it is sterile. Many more hybrids will set fruit than produce viable pollen. I don't know why that is, but I find it curious.

Interesting. That narrows what might have pollinated my plants that did produce viable seed. I might have to start collecting and storing pollen from some plants that do produce fertile pollen. I had no idea that Incense pollen was sterile too.
Karyn

How's the Fruit doing jblaschke?

This fruit--and several others--are continuing to slowly grow. They're green and taper at each end. The shape doesn't resemble maypop or edulis fruit. I'll try and get a pic up today or tomorrow.

Here's what the Amethyst fruit looks like two weeks later. Not huge, but steady growing. This pic is slightly smaller than life size--I'd say it's 2" long at this point. It's certainly not developing as fast as my incarnatas' fruit.

And as an added bonus, here's a fruit on my Lady Margaret, about a week and a half old. It's growing even more slowly than the Amethyst. Like the Amethyst, my caerulea is the pollenator.

They look good. I've never been able to get a fruit on my Lady Margaret. I've tried to pollinate with just about every variety that I have but no luck. At least it's a good bloomer.
Karyn

This is the first fruit to last this long on the LM. Last fall, pollen from my Incarnata triggered a false pregnancy which aborted after a week. LM has documented crosses with caerulea and vitifolia. I tried three pollinations with vitifolia last week, but as of now one is a definite "No," and the other two are iffy at best.

Here is mine kinda looks like a watermelon hehehe Its a vitflora X Caerulea.

Very nice, Angie. Vitifolia probably has the coolest of all passion fruit, aesthetically speaking.

Alas, my Lady Margaret fruit aborted yesterday. I'd gotten a little worried since it hadn't appreciably grown for several days. I cut the fruit open (maybe the size of two peas) and it appeared there were many pinhead sized immature fruit inside. Ah well. I pollenated it a few days ago with my Constance Eliott, and already that fruit is larger than this one I just lost...

But the Amethyst is doing OK?
Sorry to hear about your LM Dropping.... *Sigh*
Maybe you'll get better results with Constance Eliott...

I have tried alot with my LM too with no luck but I hope this year to get a seed .If your amethyst X Caerulea you will get a Bessy and they pretty.

Here is a link that might be useful: bessy

Currently there are four happily growing fruit on the Amethyst, so I don't think premature drop is going to be a problem. And "Bessy" isn't the only hybrid to come from the caerulea x Amethyst cross. John Vanderplank has released several, variations on the "Star of..." name.

LM is apparently very reluctant to set and hang onto its fruit, but it has been done. I've seen pics of a caerulea cross, and there are LM x vitifolia hybrids out there as well. Maybe I'll get lucky. :-)

I see them now not sure how it works is it just a random luck what ya get Im new to this I see at less 4 more you can get so ya wont know what ya get till it blooms.But they all pretty so you can go wrong.