My maypops are just beginning to sprout out now. Mine are from the Peaceful Heritage Nursery seeds which I started last August. I planted a couple just before winter when they were about 2.5 ft tall, and left some others to overwinter in my greenhouse. The outside ones died to ground level after my winter low of 23f, and the greenhouse vines suffered mild defoliation, but survived above ground and have since begun growing off of their preexisting vine. In the greenhouse, I’d say that they were about as damaged as the potted tomato plant I had growing next to them.
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noticed ants all over my vines. they are all congregating around these two nodules at the base of all the leaves:
anyone know whats going on here?
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They’re drinking the nectar that the plant is providing. That’s their nectar nodules. There’s better names for it but that’s what i call it lol. In the morning and when they’re well watered, you can see little droplets of liquid from it. It’s sweet 
i know because I’ve licked it
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The plant provides nectar to the ants so they protect it from other bugs. I don’t know if it also discourages ants from farming aphids on the passionvine, but I have never seen them do it.
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How early do you prune them before you bring them in? Mine are inground, but they’ll need a very heavy prune this year, so I want to do it this fall. Do you do it right before you bring them in or do you give them time to heal?
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Well considering I’ve only successfully fruited and grown them in cold and short season Colorado and I’m having issues with them in Washington state 
probably due to poor potting soil and the fact that they hate being in a round trellis…
I’m not sure right now but…
In Colorado I would prune them 2 weeks before i assume the cold starts coming. But with this, I roll everyone into my garage which had very low light and was not heated. They loved being in straight compost and a flat trellis from my experience. Mine are all alive except 2 that gave up but since I’ve played single mom for most of this year and haven’t had much help with babysitting, needless to say… all my plants are neglected and i haven’t had as much time as I’d like to cater to everyone’s needs.
Yes, the photos I’ve been posting of my plants are me neglecting them lol. They’ll either die from being loved on or grow like those pokey thistle that come up out of no where and get 3ft in a day when I’m able to care for them all again 
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The technical term is an extrafloral nectary. Extrafloral because it’s outside the flower
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Do they go dormant then, after the pruning and the cold sets in, or do they continue growing?
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They stopped growing from me when the cold hit. So far here in Washington, they’ve grown throughout the winter though. Just very slowly
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Those are called extrafloral nectaries, meaning nectar exuding features that aren’t in the flowers. Cherries have them. I didn’t know that passion vines do.
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‘Blue Eyed Susan’ is loaded with fruit this year. I’m not entirely sure what the pollen source is, or if it’s self-fertile. I haven’t tried cutting open any fruit to see if they are empty or not, but some are getting quite large:
P. edulis Nancy Garrison (single bottom fruit) with BES (top two fruits):
‘Inspiration’ has set very few fruit despite hand-pollination with BES pollen. Has nicer flowers though. Pollen fertility may be an issue with this variety. Most of the anthers lack pollen entirely.
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what do you all look for when passionfruit are ripe? wait for them to fall? the incarnata seem to be when they fall or a deflated and wrinkly.
this is “bounty” which is a sport of possum purple iirc:
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To me, when you pull it a little bit and if it falls right off: it’s ready.
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If it comes off without much pressure or if the stem connecting it to the vine is dead, I pick it. When it starts wrinkling on the counter, its ready to eat.
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how many incarnata vines in a single 5g bucket/container would be too many? will be going dormant.
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plenty of blooms on mine since mid aug. but none set fruit. i thought they were self pollinating?
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