Growing Passion Fruit from Seeds: An Experiment (P. edulis)
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Comments (4)Old thread but curious to know how it went. Yellow passionfruit could be either sweet granadilla (passiflora ligularis) or yellow passion fruit (passiflora edulis var flavicarpa). Around here, sweet granadilla seems more common at grocery stores - I started growing a couple plants from grocery store fruits. I'm also growing purple passionfruit (passiflora edulis), passiflora manicata and passiflora tripartita var azuyensis. Neither of these are frost hardy and require more than a year to fruit, so I'm growing them in containers that I bring indoors for the winter. I also have maypop (passiflora incarnata) and bluecrown (passiflora caerulea) which are a bit more cold hardy (if you plant in-ground, the vines will die back in the winter, but the roots can survive and put out new shoots in late spring/early summer), but I decided I'll grow those in containers that I bring inside too. I have gotten fruit from my maypop already. So far, they seem to be enjoying their first winter indoors and have gotten quite large. Hopefully they can hit the ground running and produce fruit next year. It seems plants grown from cuttings will produce fruit within 1-2 years, plants grown from seed will produce fruit within 2-3 years....See MoreWhen does P. edulis flower and fruit?
Comments (11)Hi Boson, I checked out your pictures on the other site--very nice--especially the big vine. I take it the two to three years were outside in Florida zone 10? It's bound to take even longer in Northern California then. I did buy some rooted cuttings earlier in the summeer: 'Frederic' and 'Nancy Garrison'. Both have very different qualities. Right now, the 'Nancy Garrison' is starting to take off; the Frederick is a bit slower. However, this plant was sent to me in bud and immediately grew a fruit. The fruit is much smaller than a normal Frederick--I did nothing to prevent pollination, but I also tried adding pollen from a different species. This could explain the smaller fruit--we'll have to see. Hopefully I'll have plenty of fruit next year. In spite of the fact that I have these plants already, I sprouted some purple supermarket seeds just recently. So I have a ton of small seedlings (> 50) that will eventually have to find new homes--assuming I can keep them alive. So at some point soon I will have a bunch of small seedlings to give away (probably still really small). I'll have to decide what to do about shipping, but the seedlings themselves will be free. So please keep this in mind if you are interested. Again, I have no guarantees they will survive the next few weeks, but if they do I should have enough to give away 1-3 each to a fair number of people. My email is (I use this only for plants, so I don't always check it often): looking4plants@yahoo.com...See MoreLots of Questions on Possible P. edulis 'Frederic' x P.vitifolia
Comments (3)The seeds are finally starting to germinate. They were fresh, so that would seem to be on the long side for a P. edulis. The germination conditions were a bit odd, though. At about the time they were planted, the sun shifted so that it shines directly in that window most of the days. These guys are in a high humidity environment, so they got steamed--very hot and very humid. I suppose it didn't hurt in the end. I think the best assumption at this point would be that these are in fact P. edulis. I was in communication with one individual (I would like to give credit but this was a private email) who suggested a way to tell whether it is a hybrid or not. The petiole glands of P. edulis lie right at the base of the leaf; those of P. vitifolia at the other end of the petiole. If it's a hybrid, they will presumably no longer lie at the postion of the P. edulis ones. If they have moved (say to an intermediate position) that would be clear evidence that a hybrid was made. And apparently the petiole glands can even be visualized on the first seed leaves. No need to wait for the flowers, hopefully. I will update this when I can....See MoreHow to grow passiflora alata and edulis from seed
Comments (2)I've grown some P. Alata from seed just a few weeks ago. They were of the Thompson and Morgan / Eden Project range. I took 7 of the 15 seeds provided, and soaked them overnight in what started as warm water, but I didn't try to keep it warm. All the water does is start soaking through the hard seed coat to get water to the embryo seed inside. Another method is to carefully chip off some of the seed coat with a knife, but this can be tricky, and those alata seeds were damn tough! Then, I just sowed them in a mix of 20% vermiculite to 80% peat-based compost, with a scattering of vermiculite on top. It said expect 1 to 6 months germination, but I had 2 within a week, and about 2 months later (now), have 5 of them in desperate need of repotting since they're now about 8 inches high already!...See MoreHermitian
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