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~ What's new at Fruits of Whitsunday ~Welcome to the "What's new at Fruits of Whitsunday" page, this page is designed to keep our consumers up to date with the latest Passionfruit developments at Fruits of Whitsunday. The January month is progressing at the moment... please check back next month. December 2007 Summer has arrived. So the heat and rain have too! Perfect weather for Passionfruit growing. See you in 2008 for more Passionfruit developments. November 2007 Now is the time to be collecting your passionfruit in time for Christmas pavlovas! If you like please check out our dessert pages for Passionfruit pavlova plus other Passionfruit recipes! Have a Great Christmas! October 2007 With our new Passionfruit season just coming back online, lets take a look at something Fruits of Whitsunday will be watching with interest in the future. Could this be the future of Passionfruit picking? September 2007 With the wonder of satellite photo's we have this month shown you the set up of Fruits of Whitsunday. Each vineyard has been set up and named A to J and each row numbered for each vineyard block. This helps us keep track of the vines health, numbers and quality control.
August 2007 There is not much to report this month. The winter was relatively wet and rainy and planting of our Passionfruit vines are continuing... July 2007 It has slowly started warming up at Fruits of Whitsunday, and that means planting of new fresh vines is being accelerated. Generally, newer younger vines produce higher quantities and better quality Panama Passionfruit. June 2007 Winter set in quickly in June with very cool nights and nice mild days. Frosts are not a problem at Fruits of Whitsunday, as the surrounding Gregory river and Dryander creek act as natural heat sinks. On cool nights the river and creek's warmth evaporates as steam and protects our surrounding Passionfruit vines from the effects of possible frosts, and it's all completely natural! May 2007 May is usually the start of winter and the dry season, so far the weather has been relatively warm and rain showers have been staying longer. All this means the passionfruit vines are enjoying an extended summer which will mean even better quality Passionfruit for you! April 2007 Continuing on from from last month people have been asking how we set out our fruit fly control system. Our Fruit fly traps are serviced 1-2 times a month depending on fruit fly numbers and weather patterns. The traps are strategically placed around the outside of our vine trellising blocks, so that the fruit flies have to at least fly past our fruit fly traps to reach the Passionfruit. Over time we move the traps around closing the spacing between traps of 'fruit fly entrance areas; generally around the vineyards closer to the rainforest, making our trap 'shielding' stronger in areas of attack. This is all a small part of our fruit fly control system. March 2007 March has seen the continuation of planting expansion. The Harvest amount for March has been double the amount harvested a year ago in March 2006. At the end of the wet season fruit fly numbers emerge, but we were ready for them, strategically placed fruit fly traps containing Wild May fruit fly control solution around out vineyard has shielded and protected our Passionfruit for you. February 2007 Our largest sized Passionfruit record has been broken! The record was 230 grams and is now 257 grams! (9 ounces) with a diameter of 115 millimetres (4.5 inches) long. But sorry though, this passionfruit was not sent to market, it has been seeded and integrated into breeding program. This summer has also been our wettest summer since Fruits of Whitsunday was established, the ground is well and truly SOAKED!
January 2007 Happy New Year! Rain anyone!? Because that is what has greeted us in the start of 2007. With the rain brings fresh new growth spurts on the Passionfruit Vines (not to mention the lawn between the trellising!) Looks like the pickers and lawn mower will be busy! December 2006 The festive season has been and gone, but not our Passionfruit! December has seen a large growth in Passionfruit, fruit production. November 2006 In November Fruits of Whitsunday changed it's 1 Litre Passionfruit pulp containers to more durable and user friendly 1 Litre clip-seal bags. This will be the last what's new for 2006. We wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a safe New Year. See you in 2007! October 2006 It's that time of year again where there's lots of green Passionfruit growing and expanding and should be ripe just in time for those upcoming Christmas Pavlova's!
September 2006 Advances are being made for replacing and replenishing our vines, so much so that approximately 90% of our vines are now under 1 year old, and we're still going! One a different note, our youngest contributor to the Fruits of Whitsunday team has become engaged this month! Congratulations Zak and Vhari! August 2006 Our Pulping machine has arrived! ...And it works very well... Our through-put of Passionfruit for pulping has gone from about 1 Passionfruit every 20 seconds to around 1 Passionfruit a second! That's a lot more Passionfruit being able to be processed in a shorter time. Rather than time being an issue, the shortfall in quantity of 2nd grade Passionfruit for pulping will be; But that will be less of an issue as the Passionfruit production in vineyard is still growing in size. July 2006 Fruits of Whitsunday was featured in the Australian Financial review Newspaper as well as featuring in predominant Country newspapers. Vineyard G has been removed and replaced with a steady flow of Panama Passionfruit being sent to all corners of the Australia! (New South Wales, Western Australia, to name a few) June 2006 More vines have been planted this month! We sure are growing! Also this month our website has been added with a new fruity background to replace the plain white background. In case you can't figure out what it is, it's Passionfruit seeds and pulp as a watermark. May 2006 A moderately wet Autumn is helping vine growth, with the summer rain continuing into May. April 2006 This month we've been busy planting out over 500 or our fresh new Panama Passionfruit vine seedlings! That's us striving for continual Passionfruit quality improvement. March 2006 Talk about growing! Our vines are growing furiously! and so is the summer rain! This month we've been busy growing, planting and pruning our vines to make amazing Panama Passionfruit! February 2006 February was another mile stone for Fruits of Whitsunday, with our first ever shipment of our Passionfruit direct to the Western Australia Market. Bullfrog International is our agent for Western Australia. You'll be able to find their contact details on our Agents page. Also in February Fruits of Whitsunday has been awarded a grant to manufacture our new Passionfruit pulping machine. This machine will help us process more passionfruit pulp out from our 2nd grade Passionfruit more efficiently. With the announcement of this grant Fruits of Whitsunday has been featured in the media, on radio, the Proserpine Guardian Newspaper, Queensland Country Life Newspaper, The Whitsunday Times, and featured on the Channel Seven local news.
January 2006 The rains have arrived! For now anyway... Not much else to report for January except we're working hard growing the best Panama Passionfruit for you! December 2005 Happy new year! In December we had our hottest day on record, 42.2 Degrees Celsius! (108 degrees Fahrenheit) with constant days above 35 degrees Celsius, it has been both hard on us and the vines. But looking forward into the new year there are going to be some exciting new developments, you'll find out what they are later on in the year... November 2005 Work has been continuing on in November. Construction of vineyard 'I' is now complete and mulching of all blocks are also complete, planting is continuing as well as our third expansion of our Packing shed. From all of us at Fruits of Whitsunday we hope you have a great Christmas! This page will next be updated for December around the start of the new year! Have a happy and safe new years! October 2005 October was the month we had our very first pickers 'Christmas party'. We thought it was a good way to reward our valued pickers for their continued consistent efforts over the year, so to finish off on their final harvest for this season, we threw them a the party as a way to say thanks. We hope to see them all again at the start of the next season starting soon. Also, construction of new vineyard "J" is now complete, planting and mulching is now underway. Construction of Vineyard "I" is continuing. September 2005 Early September our new cold room construction and wiring was completed, and it is now cooling and locking in the freshness of ever single one of our Passionfruit! September was also the month we sent our first fresh export. If you would like to import our Passionfruit also, then please contact us . August 2005 August has been another very busy month. To increase packing efficiency we've updated the display cards to strips of 5 perforated cards, but more importantly we've added a new higher resolution photo in place of the old one, and added a heap of new different Passionfruit recipes! Late August our new cold room has arrived and is now under construction. The new cold room will help providing higher quality and fresher Passionfruit for our consumers. July 2005 July has been an extremely busy time at Fruits of Whitsunday, not only have we released our latest black tray range (see products page) We have also been featured "Enterprise of the month" in Good Fruit and Vegetables Magazine! Plus we have won "Champion fruit of show" winning over all other fruits at Show Whitsunday... For the second time!
Fruits of Whitsunday A division of Delfwood Pty Ltd ABN 38 341 723 708 As Trustee for the Kelly Family Trust
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