Looking for someone who is willing to share some cuttings of fruit bearing edible passion. I will pay for postage. I am working on a tropical project in my basement and am trying to collect as many tropical species of fruit bearing plants that can be container grown. So if you have some and are willing to share please let me know. kadmol@comcast.net Thank you very very much.

P. edulis is generally the commercial purple fruited varieties. P. edulis var. flavicarpa is a yellow-fruited variety that's not quite a cold tolerant, needs a pollenator and is normally used for juice. P. ligularis (IIRC) is also a yellow-fruited passion flower that is sometimes grown commercially in South America, but is a bit less common than the other two.

tumblingtomatoes, I think P. edulis is your best bet overall. If you want to start it from seed you want it fresh, and the fresher the better. The best way to do this, if possible, would be to buy fresh fruit. I really don't know, but perhaps a Latin market would be the best in your part of the country if not available where you normally shop? Germination will still probably take 2-4 weeks, I think. Purple passionfruit (P. edulis f. edulis) vs. P. edulis flavicarpa (yellow) may be an option where you are--P. edulis f. edulis is hardier. Red ones tend to have both in their background and most if not all are hardier than flavicarpa, I think. Hopefully someone who knows about this plant can tell you about P. edulis flavicarpa in Florida. Fruit from seeds will be variable in quality, that from named varieties should be of more uniform quality. Some people sell seeds that came from a particular variety--I have no idea whether this increases the chances of good fruit. I strongly agree with the recommendation of Grassy Knoll. If you speak (or write) to Elizabeth, she can also recommend other species/hybrids besides P. edulis. That would be a very useful thing to do--she sells more passiflora than anyone in the country and she is very nice and extremely helpful. The only problem with Grassy Knoll is that they don't ship this time of the year. If you are interested in free P. edulis seedlings from store-bought fruit I can send you a couple. It's unlikely but I might have something better--I'm wating to hear from someone else. I do know that there is someone in Florida who has offered cuttings of P. edulis in the past, but I don't want to speak for him or post his info--again email me. So those are a couple possibilities, but you can't go wrong with Grassy Knoll. But if you want to do it by seed (which will take a couple years) make sure you get the freshest, by whatever means. Hopefully someone here can recommend a company. The general rule about fruit is only eat it when it falls off the vine. The vines and immature fruit tend to be poisonous. Check out Myle's Irvine's (passionflow's) site: http://www.passionflow.co.uk/passion-flower-passiflora-toxicity.htm

Raymondo I have had some recent success with seeds. I think humidity is the key. Its been stinking hot up here and really humid so they just came up ( I got my seeds from eden seeds). Maybe if you have a old fish tank lying around.... put 5 or 6 cm of water in a fish tank place a brick in the middle of the tank like an island, put seed pots on brick. put a aquarium heater in water and set at 30 deg plug it in put the lids on, hey presto humidity. Its certainly not pretty but it worked for me with fern spores and I have used it to germinate chillis and tomatoes which have been more stuborn than usual. Mick