The sweet granadilla can be grown from seeds or cuttings. There is but one crop per year. In Bolivia, the fruits ripen in May and June. The fruit, despite its hard shell, has poor keeping quality, deteriorating soon after the harvest. Pests In Haiti, the planted seeds are often devoured by rodents, though the seeds of P. edulis in the same situation have never been disturbed.
Squirrels ravage the crop in the forests of Ecuador.
For the table, the fruit is cut in half and the contents are eaten with a spoon.