The struggle is real.
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve given up on seeds, reused the soil, and then had the seeds germinate. Often not even the same calendar year. Most of the time it’s a struggle to figure out what of last year’s failed seeds came up this year…
I’m pretty sure I’ve just seen some hawaiian papaya sprouts come up for this same reason…
I like to do the ziplock bag method to see who’s sprouting. That’s how i got my seedling. Also the seed was hanging out for about 2 years in a drawer until i remembered it. Out of so many, there were 3 that sprouted and 1 that’s survived everything of my neglect and the weather
Single layer as in my photo. I’m only using the circular column as a temporary thing because it made it easier to transport everyone.
Single layer also makes it easier to pollinate as well if you don’t have bumblebees visiting them.
I plan on repotting everything, putting it in bigger pots with wheels, then doing the flat trellis system like i did before.
Also for the winter, you wanna chop them up before bringing them inside. They fruit on new growth anyways so it’s beneficial to heavily prune them after the season. They don’t fruit on old growth from all that I’ve seen.
are you cutting them down to like 1’ or smaller in length?
I did 2-3
And that’s the growth I’ve gotten from the fall ^
Looks like you found the yellow one. I know of one in my area but don’t have a source for cuttings. I will let you know how mine does and we can trade once it gets enough size to cut 
How successful if you’ve tried, have you been at rooting cuttings? I’ve failed a lot in the past but now I’m thinking they may need heat. The only successful ones I’ve had were ones i stuck into other pots during the summertime. I ended up killing my success due to thinking they were dead and just plucking them only to find roots severed
I have actually never tried, but the plant I got was a rooted cutting. They were done in rock wool indoors. Not sure if there was any bottom heat or coverings, though. I have always heard passionfruits were easy to root, but never tried growing them.
I wonder if it’s the heat that makes them root cause that’s one thing i haven’t tried yet
I will ask him for you when I talk to him again
I’m trying to figure out if this is:
I guess @Melon can let us know over time!
Exciting!
I think there’s a few varieties of yellow ones but the biggest being panama gold. I also think panama gold is the same as Brazilian yellow/gold because they’re from the same area.
Maracuja may be a smaller yellow one, there’s also mccain yellow as well and then I’ve found a smaller, more round yellow one too while in Florida. Maracuja that everyone said, is a little more tart compared to the giant yellow ones I’ve had.
Granadilla is a different one altogether and the plant looks different too.
I’ve also ordered from a bunch of random farms in Florida and what they call “yellow passion fruit” is actually an unripe purple/red 
Gonna start at the bottom because I know it better. Sweet Granadilla is a different species (passiflora ligularis) and I think is more orange fully ripe then yellow. Maracuja is probably any yellow passionfruit, like how here in Florida “Lilkoi” means yellow passionfruit despite the fact that it actually just means passionfruit. The one about Panama Gold saying its a different species is technically wrong. The common yellow passionfruit is p. edulis var flavicrapa, which is a variation not a different species. My yellow is flavicrapa, but it is a favorite of the gulf fritillary caterpillars, so it will probably never have the vigor to flower.
Yeah, I think its more for passionfruit in general rather than a specific variety. Maracuyá is Spanish (and I think Portuguese too) for passionfruit.
We have smaller ones here in north Georgia. They are volunteers on my property along a drainage ditch. They die back each winter, and come busting back each spring.
First fruit dropped. It looked sickly, so I cut it open immediately instead of waiting for it to wrinkle to see if something was wrong/had no seeds. Looks fine on the inside though. It was the smallest one on the vine, and never looked as healthy as the other ones. Smells so floral. Tastes like those fruity mixed drinks with a hint of sourness, was alot better than the store bought one I got.
i got 2 12’’ maypops started from root cuttings i got off esty. was wanting to put them in ground next week but you guys got me thinking. unforunitely nothing survives in pots here over winter unless buried in ground or with lots of snow. seeing maypop is marginally hardy here already, i probably have better luck in ground. are they as aggressive as everyone says?
I’ve tried to grow them from seed like four times and killed them every time. I always try to plant them out when it gets warm—in May. But they’re really Julypops here, so they get stunted and grow six leaves, barely survive the winter, I dig them up next June, wondering why they haven’t come up yet, to see that they’re just slow and small, then the root disturbance kills the already weak plant.
I think they might work for you if you treat them like a tropical while they are in leaf—give them full sun and wait until the ground is really warm to put them in. (Warm enough for okra, not tomatoes). I don’t think the roots would survive freezing, so you’d need them to be planted in the ground.
I kind of want to try them again, but I think a lot of the problem here is that it’s only really hot when the days are getting shorter and the rest of the garden is already half grown. So they come up and can’t compete for the increasingly limited sun.
i think ill grow them in my big pots on the south facing wall then harvest the rhizomes in fall and store in moist peat in ziplocks in the fridge over winter.
