Don't grow them here Mick but I've heard that two planted together improves yields through cross-pollination. You may want to start another Panama Red.

try some layering - - get a can and pin it to the ground - it should send out roots and hey presto a new plant.

I've found that liver water is excellent for passionfruits

liver water is the water left after you soak a lambs fry for an hour or two - you soak the lambs fry to get the skin off easier. bits of lambs fry skin poked into the soil around the roots helps them too

paradisi I've never heard that I'll give it a go this afternoon.
I've got six foot chain wire boundary fences that are going to be purfect for a couple passionfruit vines.

you're gonna need a lot. They often fruit away from the sun, but like sun to grow. So the fruit seems to arrive on the non sun side of the vine.

Mick,

I have grown both grafted and ungrafted and prefer the ungrafted ones any day. The "nellie kelly" grafted vines you normally can buy caused me and my mother a great deal of trouble with vines from the graft coming up all over the garden up to two metres away from the plant.

I grew the panama gold (grafted) ones over the last year and with only one plant had four fruit. Previous years I grew the standard purple and has so much fruit I couldn't eat it all. So this year the panama is coming back out, and I will start again from seed. I have also heard that the panama's pollinate better with two plants so would give this a go too!

Hope this helps,

Fiona

Nelly Kelly vines are grafted onto an invasive rootstock that suckers like crazy and worse still it's incompatable (grafting) with p. edulis, they only usually last about 5 years and then you have the rootstock comming up EVERYWHERE, it's the biggest con I've ever seen :p makes you buy a new one each 5 years for sure and is no better than a seedling anyway. Don't buy one

the rootstock offers resistance to a fusarium wilt... which could be beneficial in humid conditions... but otherwise i would agree... no grafting

I am trying to start a Passion Fruit Vine by layering. Does anybody know how long it will be before the layer takes root and can be planted out ?

Allan

By far the best way to propagate passion fruit is from cuttings! Reason number one, it produces fruit in less than one year. Two, the fruit is identical to the parent plant. And lastly, it is way more efficient and economical. I bought a (Freserick) passion fruit vine for a couple of bucks that was a foot tall last summer and it is currently ten feet tall with four side branches and three fruits that are two inches long. A year and half ago, I planted twelve edulis passion fruit seedlings and they are only a foot tall! (what the heck) it takes way too long and it may produce poor quality fruit. Totally unreliable. So, take my advice and only buy or grow vines from cuttings and don't waste your time with z
seeds. Daniel

I currently have a plant with a massive amount of large fruit hanging off it, this plant was grown from 2 cuttings, I was advised sometime ago to plant the vine on an east / west running fence and this I did, to initiate the growth I dug a hole and put in a good quality potting mix and a couple handfuls of fertiliser, follow this method you won't go wrong.