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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