Sure is! Only happening at the same time it started putting out flower pods.
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Congrats!!! Looking forward to more pics as this progresses!
Where did you get your Qinmi#9?
Would you or @george be willing to sell a cutting or two to me? I can DM.
Seems perfect for the kind of flavor we like.
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Finally, my sweet calabash flowered! It has a bunch of unopened flowers but got this beautiful pic of the first one.
Really excited and hoping to get some fruit!
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Did you grow it from seed? I have some sweet calabash seedlings growing right now. Beautiful flower!
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I didnāt. Got it at a local nursery run by an enthusiastic and passionate owner who finds, propagates and then sells stuff like this.
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Does anyone here have any experience with Passiflora tucumanensis, and possibly crosses from it? How it tastes, size, etcā¦? I googled it as far as I could and got some info, but I wonder if anyone here can comment on it personally. Also, do you know where to get it in the US if itās worthwhile? It sounds cold hardy and edible from the few mentions Iāve found, so I wanted to experiment growing it.
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I donāt have it, however, a few people who do breeding and collecting do. Itās really hard to get ahold of though as itās still quite rare.
Itās apparently very good tasting. Cold hardiness is decent, better than edulis, but nowhere near incarnata. To my knowledge itās also not a herbaceous perennial like incarnata and cincinnata, so itās harder to overwinter and doesnāt come back from the roots like they do.
Iām not sure what growing conditions it likes. I think itās from the Salta province in Argentina, so probably dry winters and hot summers.
It does form hybrids with incarnata, but fertility of the offspring is a major issue.
Some folks on the Cold Hardy Passiflora Facebook group work with it.
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Since weāre mentioning if anyone has specific things:
Anyone have the giant yellow maracuya/flavicarpa? Been looking for it and my favorite Passionfruit girly isnāt selling anymore on Etsy 
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Ok, thanks for the info. From my past searches, I found quite a bit here too if youāre interested. Passiflora tucumanensis | The Italian Collection of Maurizio Vecchia
Apparently it got its name from the TucumĆ”n province, Argentina. They also claim the fruit are 2-3cm, and itāll sucker. Meaning itāll come back from below if the top is killed off.
I wanted to ask around here first, but it sounds pretty unavailable. Good thing Iām spending most of January in Argentina I guess.
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I did get Incense to flower at the end of the summer/fall. Very pretty Iāll post a pic if i can find, so it was true to what i expected so i trust this Etsy seller i mentioned. My other regular maypop (either OGW Pinkpop or Peaceful Heratageās one) made only 1 small fruit this year in a pot (from pretend 20-30 flowers, as its more established in the pot from last summer). I donāt keep them in ground as i donāt want them to spread, only in large pots. Although I was fighting them this year also in ground, as a fruit prob dropped last year and spread in a flower garden bed :). Just kept giving those away as I could pull them from the ground with some roots most of the time (although the main root is still prob running in that bedā¦ i wonder if depriving it of sunlight/energy, by removing root runners as i saw them after 6" to 12", killed the main rootā¦ weāll find out next year how resilient it is).
Here u go:
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Did you get panama red from logees as well?
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Looks like a match for Incense! Thanks for sharing. Iād be curious what you think of the fruit quality once you get a taste.
btw There is FB group for Passiflora maybe someone suggested here, where people seem to be posting their crosses with maypops sometimes (or other things).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/127143034316126/
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A seller on one of the facebook passiflora group names Aaron. Mine vine is small. Once I have some to cut, I will let you know!
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I do. They are huge, yellow and sour. it is not self fertile and I hand cross it with another edulis variety. My vine is huge too. Produced a lot of fruit.
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Looks similar to my āSeurrulataā. Ive been told its probably not a real Serrulata. My flower was able to pollinate with pollen from Caerulea.
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I did not. My Panama Gold, not red, is from a seed from a facebook seller. Waiting for it to set fruit.
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