Hi Karyn,I have a aristolochias that has a very small bloom(don't know the name)I have a pic I could send you of it.I'm interested in your passiflora

Is the Incense getting enough sunlight in summer? If catepillars are desimating your plants, you may have to pick them off everyday until plant can rebound. I love butterflies but they can do a number on your vine. You are right germination of seeds is very sparse and random. but the seeds online are very cheap. You only need a few of each variety to germinate. I have a very simple cheap set up in my tool shed. I have cheap flourescent 48" lights, heat pads hooked up to a heat thermometer, and those cheap plastic covered seedling trays. The trick is once the seedlings get a second set of leaves take them out of trays then acclimate them in bright window or AZ room, for a couple a weeks then outside with only morning sun in Spring. I've learned the hardway leaving seedlings in seedling trays to long and they grow week stems fall over and die. A. Mom keep us posted on your P. Frederick. I know they are a little more cold sensitive then some hardy P. vines. Lol, bird got your sole fruit. Iam sure you will get a lot more fruit next season when your plant is more established. It may die back all the way to ground in Winter but will hopefully come back in Spring like most Passi's.

Where did Eric go? A few more pictures, all taken today. The first one is actually a plant from Eric and Crystal--the first bloom on a Cuphea cyanea that they gave me cuttings of: I really like this plant, so when I saw a bigger one for sale at Flora Grubb in SF (for $6, I think), I had to get it. It is also doing well (except for the part I stepped on): The Fuchsia boliviana Alba I showed in bud earlier has started blooming: (to get an idea of the size of these guys, an individual flower starting at the top of the tiny fruit down to the bottom is about 3.5 inches long). These are just young buds of Aristolochia trilobata (also called A. macroura). The tails get a foot long. I've heard some varieties have tails up to 3 feet long (and I love to get one of those). Sometimes I like the small, simple ones. This is Physalis peruviana, a plant not grown for its flowers, but its fruit. It is also known as Cape Gooseberry and is closely related to the Tomatillo. From the Andes, but I don't remember exactly where.

Attention Passiflora hybridizers!! Grab your camera, find your metric measuring tape, and get ready to share your best creations with the world, because the PSI removed the moratorium on hybrid registrations, introducing a new and improved cultivar registration page! Registrar Dr. Shawn Mattison will be overseeing your registrations, ensuring proper nomenclature and adherence to the international oversight legislations. Our Treasurer and Administrator, Crystal Stone created and will upkeep the online form. Our Newsletter Editor, Rob McPhail will be creating an annual book of newly registered Passiflora hybrids each year, the first of which (the 2014 edition) will be available for sale in early 2015. Each and every hybrid will be granted its own FULL PAGE, for which it will live forever in print and as a downloadable copy for free to all Premium Members. When you are ready for your hybrid to be registered, read all the rules, and enter all your information here: http://www.passiflorasociety.org/member-benefits/hybrid-registration/