I too have tried from seed. No luck yet. Would v-8 be a suitable sub for tomato juice?

I don't know. Natural fruit juices work best.

I wouldn't use V-8 or packaged tomato juice--too much salt. Squeezed out of a tomato should be fine. I had excellent response using tepid tea for a day.

i too have had no success in growing passion vines from seeds but now that i have read these hints, i would like to try again, does anyone have seeds for any kind of passion flower i can have please. i only have one vine but it hasnt bloomed so i dont know what kind it is

Passion flower seeds can germinate even 1 year after you sow them, so be patient. In my experience the earliest they germinate 2 weeks after I put them into the soil, and that were fresh ones. Also they rarely germinate all at the same time, even if they are taken from the same fruit.

ok thanks, will wait and see i have seeds planted in pots all over the place so hopefully some will decided to sprout

I saw online. A guy recommended not to bury them. Leave moist, on the surface so sun can get to them.

Also I saw, soak them in strong black tea for two days.

I have never had any luck. I will try this too.

i too have been trying my hand at germinating the seeds. i have gotten about a 50% germination rate - but then a couple of them rotted - ugh. i haven't been treating the seeds, so its been taking a good 3-4 weeks for germination. and it seems they need rather moist soil - i am guessing the water helps the shell open. i tried water, but i have a lot of trouble with bacteria and fungus build up, so that didn't work. gotta order some more - i had gotten some of the giant fruit kind, but i think all those seeds are lost. i do currently *fingers crossed* have two seedlings doing well of the regular edible variety.

I finally got three seeds to germinate. They are in sphagnum moss. I had it upside down in another pot, kept moist. I then read about the sun exposure. I turned the pot over and a month or so later, seedlings.

I am also trying cuttings, it's tough as well.

I have germinated plenty of seeds, many of my own hybrids are now distributed.

I usually soak the seeds in water for 24 hours, then plant them in small square pots in a propagator in choir or a mix of it. The tray of the propagator must not have holes, so the humidity can be kept moist, also in the Northern hemisphere plant them from late December to April. They usually start to appear after 14 days

I didn't have any success with individual seeds although I tried several times. I finally planted an entire fruit after it dried out in late fall. I just tore a big hole in the side of the fruit so the potting soil could get inside, then buried the entire piece of dried Maypop fruit with all the seeds left inside in a pot of potting soil and left it out all winter. I had all sorts of little individual Maypop vines the following spring.

Mary

Try this... i have so many passiflora growing that I have to pick them like weeds! I had tried washing the seeds really well and letting them dry, then I planted them in the ground and in little cups with seed starting mixture. No luck. I tried the coffee filter and baggie germination method, still no good. However, I threw the rest of the fruit (seeds/rind/skin), which I got from Whole Foods, into my compost bin. It somehow worked like a greenhouse!

The photo is from yesterday, which was almost a month after they first sprouted, and I'm still getting sprouts in that bin! I never even thought that could happen. The compost bin is filled with very unfinished compost, which was like 80% browns and 20% greens, only have a couple worms left, they all died during a heat wave/tropical storm. But I guess it has a lot of vitamins that are beneficial even now! So maybe try replicating this?

Try this... i have so many passiflora growing that I have to pick them like weeds! I had tried washing the seeds really well and letting them dry, then I planted them in the ground and in little cups with seed starting mixture. No luck. I tried the coffee filter and baggie germination method, still no good. However, I threw the rest of the fruit (seeds/rind/skin), which I got from Whole Foods, into my compost bin. It somehow worked like a greenhouse!

The photo is from yesterday, which was almost a month after they first sprouted, and I'm still getting sprouts in that bin! I never even thought that could happen. The compost bin is filled with very unfinished compost, which was like 80% browns and 20% greens, only have a couple worms left, they all died during a heat wave/tropical storm. But I guess it has a lot of vitamins that are beneficial even now! So maybe try replicating this?

would you happen to have any seeds i could have, no place around here carries the fruit even that i could buy thanks would appreciate it

i found some for not too much at toptropicals.com -because they don't sell them in my area either!

Here are a few pictures of our method from early this year, indoors on a sunny windowsill

Hi I am from South Africa, I am looking for passiflora seeds of the different colour flowers. I have spent a ton of money buying these seeds and not one has germinated. Some of the seeds like passiflora aurantia are so small that I have to wonder if they are viable. I thought that perhaps it would be better for me to get seeds from people who have them growing in their gardens as the seed would be fresh and easier to germinate. I did well with passiflora edulis known here as the guavadilla and currently have ten plants, a friend bought a fruit in Paragauy and brought me the seeds. I have a 15m wall that I want to cover in passiflora of the diferent kinds. I also have the local passiflora not sure what its scientific name is but i would guess at cerulea. I would pay for postage. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

We at LCOP do exchange seeds where there are no restrictions. We can be contacted via our blog

http://mypassionflowers.blogspot.co.uk/

Why grow from seed when you can take a cutting and put it in the ground? I put four cuttings into pots with a planting mix to which I added Xtreme gardening Mykos pure mycorrhizal innoculant. After four weeks in the ground, one cutting seems to have grown roots, because it is now putting out fresh growth.

I have never heard of anyone in RSA that has the different kinds of passiflora to grow from cuttings. Our postal service is really slow so cuttings will arrive rotten (it used to take 2 weeks to receive posts from abroad now it's anything between 2 and 6 months) hence fresh seeds from people who have the different kinds of passiflora seed. I have bought lots of eBay and Amazon not a single one grows, I think it is because the seed is old.

same here on ordering seeds from amazon and other places and them not growing, and unless you can get cuttings from someone close by cuttings dont survive the mail very well,

Yeah, we need very fresh seeds

By the way I treated what Is grenadilla in our country not sure of the scientific name with diatomaceous earth worked wonders , gave it's very good dose, yellow leaves turning green again. Wish o took pictures.

That is a wonderful idea, my grandmother taught me about gardening but she died when I was still young. I have a 6m wall that I want to cover with the different colours of passiflora, I may as well put something edible there no point in growing only things you can't eat. In South Africa we call it a Portuguese garden, grow food in amongst the flowers. It would be really great to have someone share their seed. I have cardinal creeper seeds and cork screw vine/snail vine seeds I harvested in may this year to share or trade.

Ok, how to grow passiflora seeds beaidesysoaking in Orange or lemon juice.

Be very careful thoughyso as not to damage the kernel. Takeya nail clipper and clip off the sharp point of the seeds - just enough to allow water to soak the waxy coating of the kernel, soak for a day or so the plantyat least a centimeter deep, within a week or so the seed will germinate.

thanks i will try that

I have a passiflora edulis, fredericka, with purple fruits, that is very productive in Santa Monica, California. A friend sprouted some of my seeds and they are of a different variety: passiflora flavicarpa. It turns out my passiflora was grafted to flavicarpa roots, to help the plant withstand fusarium wilt. So the seeds reflected that variety, which has yellow fruits. So it's probably best to buy a plant from a nursery or get a cutting because otherwise you may get a different variety of fruit than what you wanted. Three of my four cuttings have sprouted roots.

no nursery has them where i live iam in Sparks, Nevada near Reno,

They definitely don't have them in South Africa

I still have about a dozen fruit on my vine. Here is my email if you want seeds, send me an address. Two times now I have used black tea and tomato juice. soak them separately for 24-48 hours. I have seedlings. Plant About 1/8-1/4" below the surface in sphagnum moss.

Timraywa@gmail.com

My fruit is not totally ripe. I will save and dry seeds when they drop.

Hi.

I will pay postage via PayPal for seeds.

My postal address is :

Vici kiehm

P. O. Box 1168

Bergbron

Gauteng

South Africa

1712

Do you know what kind of passionate you have? Your offer is appreciated.

Regards

Vici

Barrie, the plant you have, P. 'Frederick', is a hybrid, with P. edulis f. flavicarpa as one of the parents. The seeds you planted will not give you P. 'Frederick', rather a recombination of the present genes. That's why one seedling gave you yellow fruit, the P. edulis f. flavicarpa genes for yellow fruit came through in the seedling. The rootstock for your plant will not influence fruit color. Also, P. 'Frederick' probably doesn't need extra protection against nematodes, since it has the P. edulis f. flavicarpa as a parent. As for nurseries, they don't always have their plants correctly labeled, I have found passifloras incorrectly labeled often and when I point it out to the employees, they don't seem to care that the plants are mislabeled.

So, Vici, if Tim sends you some seeds from P. 'Frederick', you will probably get an edible fruit from the seedlings, but they will not be P. 'Frederick'. You can order passiflora seeds from Mauro in Brazil, he is at brazilplants.com.

It was a friend of mine who grew from the seeds of my plant. I am propagating through cuttings from my P. 'Frederick', which are looking good. They are in pots now and I aim to plant them in the ground this month, before the rains start, in California.

I am quite happy to receive fresh seeds, as in RSA there is no one with the different types of passiflora and seeds bought from sellers abroad seem to not germinate I think they are rather old. I have managed to germinate molissima, ambiguous, flavicarpa, edulis and incarnata rustige. The following just don't ever come up irrespective of where I buy seeds from: alata, coccinea, auranta, quadrangulis, leofgreni , foetida, incarnata, seemanii etc. So I am happy if anyone growing different varieties is willing to send me seeds. Yes nurseries do label plants incorrectly, I have found that with wisteria especially in this country. Hence if someone has seeds I am happy to receive them because most avid gardeners tend to know what they have.

Vic, I See your address I have frederick. I will mail you some seeds.

can you send me some seeds too please Tim, thanks,

That would be wonderful. If there are any seeds that you want I will send. If you send me your email address I can send some pictures of what I have and if you interested I will send them.

Just an FYI, P. 'Frederick' is a hybrid, propagation by seeds does not give 'Frederick'. It may fruit well and taste good, but it's not 'Frederick'.

that doesnt matter to me i just love the passion flowers,and want to try growing different ones for the flowers,

I am hoping there is no restrictions on sending seeds to South Africa.

Hi Tim

No we don't have restrictions, I receive seeds from all over, some even write wooden toy on the packaging for bulbs I receive. I would be happy to receive seeds from someone who actually grows them because many seeds bought on eBay don't germinate.

Regards

Vici

Hi Vici

We have some seeds spare, the ones in the batch we have planted have come up well.

email for details

London Collection of Passiflora

oh thank you thank you, what a wonderful message to wake up to, this was the first thing i saw today,

Sorry Vic importation of seeds into South Africa is by permit only.

Thanks for trying Tim

Anybody else that would like some. Send me address on my email.

timraywa@gmail.com

Tim did you mail my passion flower seeds yet, do you need my address? hope to hear from you soon,