Oh i didn’t even realize that… mine must’ve missed the mark too then because i swear i put these for the beginning if next year
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Been enjoying these as they counter ripen.
One of the larger ones
The acid and sugar levels seem something close to a good strawberry, which is what I prefer, don’t like them too sour.
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Has anyone grown Poppin Passion the Bushel and Berry passion fruit? Bushel and berry website says it will climb 10’ and Logees website says only 3-5’ (!!??), and I’m a little intrigued since Bushel and berry seems to breed compact, container-friendly varieties.
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Wow! my incarnata grows like crazy… it climbs at least 8’ and then covers a cage that is around 100 sq ft. 3’-5’ sounds like a pipe dream to me for incarnata, but if it is true, I’d love for that to be bread into some of the improved incarnata varieties we got from Ukraine to get good tasting fruit in a small space.
https://patents.justia.com/patent/PP35636 here is the patent for it
This is also true of their other variety ‘Grand Passion’ which is an edulis:
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Cool thanks for finding that. It’s not Incarnata though, it’s P. edulis. That info def is different than what Logees claims! A 16’ spread is hardly a good container deck plant?! But, I’m not seeing those numbers in the patent? It looks like it was 1’x1’, which is baffling. The 500cm x 300cm comr from the second one you linked.
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Do you think your yellow-fruited maypops would be hardy in zone 7a? If so, I’d love to buy or trade for some seeds from you!
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Hard to say, I’ve not tested them below low teens F or a few days below freezing.
In the spring I will send you some root suckers.
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That would be splendid! Thank you! And please allow me to reimburse you for them!
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As I already expected, p. quadrangularis and p. malaformis are both relatively unfazed by frost-less prolonged temps below and around freezing. Since its the most difficult thing in the world to look at yesterday’s weather, I don’t know exactly how long we were below freezing, but it was at least 3-5 hours. Pretty happy about that.
I don’t know how quickly they start to flower, but it would be awesome to see some blossoms this year. Quadrangularis has a beautiful flower.
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They smell super good too right?
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I have never smelled them, but most passionflowers smell really good. Based purely on looks, maliformis looks more fragrant than quadrangularus, not that that means much.
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@Blake that is really cool. Looking forward to when you release this. I’d love to buy and try. IDK if you ship to California?
Edit - just saw and signed up for the waiting list on your site. Hope you ship to CA 
@sharq- wanted to get your advice on a Sweet calabash (passiflora malformis) that I have. The vine grows like crazy and also set a lot of flowers this past year but 0% of them produced fruit. It’s weird because I have it in a sort of passiflora hedge with a Red Rover, Purple Possum, and Frederick and all the others were also flowering at the same time and all the other produced a LOT of fruit. Any thoughts on what I could do differently?
thanks!
Have you tried hand pollinating? The other 3 are all edulis, which can be self-fertile. Afaik, maliformis is not, but should cross pollinate. Well, I hope anyways.
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I have not. Will do this year! Hope that works. Thanks!
I just got a massive (for me) harvest from the other 3 - excited to see it ripen. Hope I can get the malformis to produce too.
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I could probably ship you dormant bare root plants at some point.
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I’d love that! Let me DM.
