I am so jealous!! I just got my first passion vine yesterday - have been attempting seeds for a year now. What a wonderful day it was for you!!! Congrats
~Angie~

WOOHOO!!!!
That is great.. I wish I was closer sounds like he could be your new best friend!!!...LOL
Kylie~chena

How cool! Please post a picture when it fruits? I'd love to see what they look like. I think I found some in the wild that were orange, about the size of a golf ball, but I'm not sure that's what it was. What a nice guy! That's an unbelieveable price.

Wow! That is so neat! Please post pics. You did great! PJ

I'll try to take some pics when I get home and post. It was growing in some pretty heavy shade, so I'll try to acclimate it to more sun for a few days before planting it in its permanent location. It's a huge vine but there are few leaves on it, mainly because caterpillars had been chomping away at it. The Gulf frits are out in force already this year.

There are lots of nodes up and down the vine that look primed to sprout if given incentive, though. This weekend I'll plant it where it gets more than six hours of sun daily. That ought to wake it up. :-)

Angie, I've had spotty luck germinating seeds--either store bought or via eBay. From trial and error, I've come to the conclusion that fresh seeds will sprout readily if planted straight from the fruit. If the seeds can't be planted fresh, then it is essential they be stored in cool, moist conditions (I store mine in the refrigerator in moist sand). If allowed to dry out, they'll go dormant and it's very difficult to get them to "wake up." I've seen where it's recommended to dry them out for long-term storage, and that may well work if you're talking years. But if you only need to store them for a few months, it's counter-productive.

The folks on the Passiflora forum have a pretty good groupmind list of the good sources of seed and plant online, off and eBay sellers. Drop in over there if you like.

I have passionvine too and love the flowers. A friend of ours who is just learning to garden here bought some passionvine to grow on his arbor he built over the winter. He said that even though his dogs chewed part of the plant, it was growing great and is almost to the top of his arbor post already. He is really excited about it. I warned him about the butterflies/caterpillars and told him not to spray and he isn't, so his boys should enjoy watching the caterpillars later on.

I just got my first one last week also scubagal and it already had a bud on it and it opened up this weekend. I was so very very excited! Got it on ebay!
Congrats jb, I am so excited for you and that is one beautiful passion vine. I just fell in love with the flower!
Dena

My acquisitions. All 7'8" of them.

I just love that so many people are getting passis, that means we will get to see so many pics of them
Congrats on your passiflora scores
jolana

I love Madrone nursery! I was able to start my entire garden for only about $150 dollars and I lost very few of the plants I bought there. I found it very humorous because I went last year in early spring and there was only dirt in the pots and a few dead looking stems without leaves. They would pull out a pot and tell me what was in it, and I had to take their word for it! Sure enough a few weeks later I had a very durable plant with some super duper roots. They don't baby their plants, so they are tough!