Fruiting fuschia

I have a digital scale for weighing chemicals for making sterile orchid medium. I just weighed a ripe fuchsia hatchbackii fruit and it weighs 0.49gm. So that's about 60 to an ounce, and nearly 1000 for a pound! That's a lot to grow and pick.

 

Unless there are specific large fruiting varieties out there that are totally hardy I think the idea is a non starter.
Just eating the occasional one off the plant is totally different from making jam.

 

well i guess if there is a variety that produces some fruit but wont get too big and is relatively hardy then thats ok too. I can just eat the fruit as a snack and not use it for jams or cakes. Though reading the comments im more worried about it not growing back after winter

Here is a recipe for the jam just in case anyone has a lot of this type of fruit
https://www.thegardeneronline.co.uk/attachments/articles/a21388_Fuchsia Jam - other recipes.pdf

 

There's an article in Country life mentioning fuchsia jam that shows fuchsia Southern Belle which appears to have much larger fruit than hatchbackii. However it appears to be a trailing one, so more difficult to grow lots - maybe they'd have to be in troughs like strawberries.

 

Maybe a 10 m long hedge of something like F magellenica and then an hour or so every few days picking the fruit over the summer, then freeze until you have sufficient.

 

Apparently they dont taste of much so im going off the idea. would have been ok for muffins etc

 

I have a prostrate fuchsia procumbens that I recently noticed produced huge fruit - 10 times the size of hatchenbachii. I tasted one - just dry seedy and no flavour. So probably better to stick to mainstream fruit.