I pollinated it successfully with the pollen from my only incarnata plant, it has 6 fruit on it, most of them pretty large for what I expected, I guess around 100 gr.
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I can add info for everyone growing Fata Confetto, all my attempts at pollinating it at evening failed, I was successful during the morning around 11 am-13 pm.
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Has anyone observed or is there any known evidence of vertical versus horizontal spreading/growth habit having an impact on crop yield in P incarnata?
This year many of my vines just ran along the ground versus climbing my cattle panel trellis.
It seemed like they set more fruit this year.
Obviously this could be due to many factors but growth habit could be one of them…
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not sure but generally in vining plants horizontal growth = more flowers = more fruit.
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Ah I see - I wasn’t aware of that!
The cattle panel of course is kinda vertical and horizontal at the same time but clearly different than running on the ground.
Hmmm
yes its certainly the case with roses (not a traditional vine), honeysuckles, wisteria, and grapes. I dont know for passionfruit. https://theveggielady.com/how-to-grow-passionfruit-2/ it looks like maybe it also just takes a few years to fruit well anyway.
did they happen to root into the ground by chance?
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I’ve never seen them tip root or put down roots from ground contact. But they do sucker like crazy, especially incarnata.
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Right no. what @a_Vivaldi said.
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I just wanted to update that it appears the very hardy selection of Maypop that I started from seed from Prairie Moon Nursery did not comeback after winter. They looked great last autumn, but I think the growing season is just to short for them to survive. They survived for 2 years here, the first year being the year they started from seed. No sign at the end of June. Oh well, it was fun to try.
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I have some maypop I planted this spring in a pot here in zone 6b MA. It’s growing up a fence and flowering happily, but no fruit yet. I thought via OGW it was self fertile; am I wrong?
Also, I’m anticipating it will die back to the ground at frost, so do I just protect the pot and let it grow back next year?
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A few selections are apparently self fertile but most are self incompatible. They do tend to become more self compatible towards the end of the blooming season as they get more desperate to set fruit.
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interesting, yeah i chose to plant 2 anyway even though mine say self fertile as well, i dont trust it lol, especially since theyre seedlings…