Anyone else love Passiflora (passion fruit) like I do? I may be a little obsessed and have too many

Nice looking plant!

Have you ever grown one of this variety before? I also got a similarly sized seedling of the same recently and I’m wondering how long it might take to fruit if I put it into the ground. Need to research if it is self-fruitful or needs a pollinator variety near by and I suspect I’ll have to hand pollinate anyway.

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This is my first one. I’m thinking two years in the ground at most, maybe less. I’m not sure about pollination, but most videos I’ve seen have been hand pollinated. They can be cross-pollinated with p. edulis, and I have 3 of those on the next trellis over, so I’m not really worried about it.

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Was planted in ground March 16th at about one leaf higher than it was in the quoted picture (its the plant by the left side of the trellis).


By June 29th it was a foot above the trellis (picture was taken after I broke the part above the trellis on accident). Once I put it in the ground, it really took off. Probably helps that I’ve given it a fair bit of fertilizer since then as well. Seeds were bought December 11th, 2023, so plant is roughly a year and a half old. Will report again if it flowers.

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How long is it supposed to take until flowing, and how long does the fruit take to develop?

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In San Jose, CA (only place I could find some numbers) it took them 3 months to ripen. It also took them 3 years to start fruiting (pontentially when it started to flower as well) but they had it in a container for 2 years and it started flowering the first year they had it in ground. So maybe 3 years, maybe less, we will see. Hard to get information thats accurate since alot of places use the same info as Passiflora edulis for things like seed to fruit, ripening time, and hardiness.

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maybe its just that variety but i thought that passiflora vines usually only last for a few years and then die out :thinking:

The only one I can see that being true for is maypop due to the fact that it goes dormant so it sends up new vines. But my mother grew the same 3 or 4 Passiflora edulis vines for like 15 years when I was growing up, and then never died back or sent out new vines from the base.

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maybe this was just info i picked up from zone pushers. mine are in containers and will be chopping them completely back and bringing them in for the winter.

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So Cal grower here - Frederick variety is still going strong. It was planted in 2015.

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