Bitter guards again

I had earlier posted about our first bitter guard harvest. The three plants mentioned in that post gave us only few fruits and then got infested with mealy bugs. We left it to dry up so that we can clear up later and sow something else.. After gap of a few weeks, when I was inspecting the plants' remains found a small ripe fruit in an almost dried stage.Looked like it was the last fruit.I threw the ripe little fella into a nearby container and forgot all about it. I hadn't even mentioned it to anyone else in the family.. A month later this is what we found.

 From our observation so far,this plant turns out to be very strong and prolific. It has quite a thick vine and has given out many branches. Our compound wall is currently serving as its trellis. The leaves are unarguably bigger than its predecessors.

The plant started flowering and forming fruits about a month back but due to one of our planned vacations, it had to face some drought conditions and had to replenish again from the start once we returned. 

It did not take that much time though to re-grow.. within a couple of weeks we had our first harvest.This variety is called 'midhi-pahal' in our language. This variety features short fruits but has high nutritional power than the long ones.

This particular plant has re-iterated my recent belief in seed saving practices- to prefer to save seeds from the current harvests and slowly lose the habit of buying seeds from the market.