Here’s a picture of my passionfruit vine that I took today. I had this in a pot for such a long time and it never did anything (and I didn’t water it enough), but now it has taken over the fence. There’s a very sad espalier pear tree under there somewhere.
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Vinod, please try to get him. He had a great sense of humor too!!!
I bought Passion fruit Frederick, Red Rover and Nancy Garrison today. Which one would you recommend?
Also got Vincent kiwi.
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I’ve grown Frederick, Nancy garrison and Black Knight. Frederick has larger fruit, tastes more tart and more vigorous growth. Nancy garrison is supposed to be a little more cold hardy but had very compact growth. Both delicious!!!
In my area NE of San Diego they get a little sad with the winter but seem to bounce back.
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Planted Nancy Garrison (growing to the left) and Red Rover (right)
Also planted Vincent Kiwi. Now I need to decide if I need to plant a male or just graft one onto the Vincent.
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If you’re trying to cover the wall, you can space those a lot further apart. My maypop spread a good 5 feet in its first year.
I once had a Kiwi that was supposed to be fruitful without separate male or female plants.The name was something like “Issai”.I built a nice obelisk type trellis,but never had the plant long enough to see fruit.Some green insects came at night and ate the leaves. Brady
I plan to train them in one direction only. There’s 30+ feet of wall on each side. The reason I chose that spot is that it has the best soil in the yard and was farther from my shade trees.
I caught one snail on it in like an hour. I sprinkled sluggo around it.
I should have clarified. My maypop spread underground via runners. Training that will be tricky.
Let it ride. It’s a vine, so it doesn’t have the same rules as a fruit tree. Besides, they’re really tasty.
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Hey Vinod!
Sorry for the late reply. I saw your text when you sent it but I (and my whole family) was very ill at the time and the text window got lost in the shuffle…just getting to it. As you can see it made me join the forum 
I like the 2x4 PVC coated welded wire. The vine grabs it well like a chain link fence. Those redwood lattices will fall apart sooner rather than later if they are what I’m thinking. Pay 50$ for a roll of it (you can get green or black and probably find a height for sale that matches your wall) example 4ft one:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-4-ft-x-50-ft-14-Gauge-Green-PVC-Coated-Welded-Wire-308352HD/204331902
Get some stucco anchors and maybe cut up a few boards and anchor them into the wall, every 4 to 8ft, depending on how lazy or industrious you are feeling. Then roll out the wire and attach to the boards. This will give you a gap between the wall and the mesh, I suppose you could put the mesh directly on the wall but the tendrils might have a tougher time grabbing and you would have less air circulation.
I’ve attached a couple images of a friends passion fruit “A” frame. He uses the black mesh but as you can see once the vine grows you can barely find the welded wire in there.
I would not thin any fruit, the vine is a weed you cannot stop it, just trim it, maybe make your wife a dress out of passionfruit vines/leaves (won’t last long though, maybe just one date!)
Where did you get your passionfruit? I found a Black Knight last year and it died on me (was very sickly when I bought at Yamigami’s). I’m happy with Frederick though so my quest for other varieties has ended.
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Hey Kevin, good to see you joined! I hope all health issues are behind you now. I’m gonna try this now.
Summerwinds on Almaden Expressway had those three varieties but only one each of Nancy and Red Rover. They had a couple more of Frederick.
Yeah, it was just for a weekend put pretty tough, maybe we all good some type of food poisoning.
I’m surprised you found them there. Do you know who the wholesaler was on the label?
Anyway, I’d like to try those varieties when ripe later in summer, can trade some Frederick passionfruit or figs which will be ripe at same time.
The wholesaler is Monterey Bay Nursery.
Sure, we can trade!
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I had one kiwi rootstock grown from seed and now its 5 yrs old seedling, this year i have grafted kiwi with some success.
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I totally am jealous. I tasted the passionfruit in Costa Rica. But I live in 8b in WA, and only flowering not fruiting types are grown here.
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