Comments on: How to Grow Passionfruit

By: David Fu

David Fu — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:47:06 +0000

My passion fruit plant has lot of followers but hardly become fruit. What should I do? There is a way to hand pollinate?

By: Augusto Ruiz

Augusto Ruiz — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:39:38 +0000

I am interested in starting a passion fruit plantation in the North Coast in Perú and have a few questions for you:
1. What is the best time of the year to plant?
2. What season can I expect the fruit to start coming out, summer perhaps?
3. Are there any insects to fear? Or maybe plant disseases?
Thank you in advance for your answer.

By: jack berry

jack berry — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:28:59 +0000

i have plenty of green fruit on my vine when do thy change colour to eat mine is a nelly kelly

By: Medha

Medha — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:43:44 +0000

Tender Passion fruit leaves make great healthy green salad. Cut into tiny pieces mix with onions, salt, grated coconut, and juice of lemon.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:06:27 +0000

I’ve purchased a Black beauty passionfruit plant today, Your info above should give me a great start to success. Its summer here in New Zealand and the temperature is 26 0C, I intend on doing as you’ve suggested and its sound to me like a recipe for success.
Thanks and I look forward to fruit within the next year or 2.

Michelle
From New Zealand

By: ADOLFO P. CANETE

ADOLFO P. CANETE — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:16:59 +0000

I am in the Southern Portion of the Phils. I grew Passion Fruits just to cover my vermi plots. It has given me enough cover from sunlight because be sometimes have temp. of 28-32 C. It has produced for me some delicious fruit juice & combined with pineapple or mango juice do make it excellent.

Each fruit gives me so many seeds that now I have Passion Fruit plantables growing out of my ears! If any one need the seeds or the plantables, say it !

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:26:57 +0000

I’m currently growing passionfruit and I’m in the Philippines. I don’t know what variety it is, i got my fruit from Hong Kong and I brought it to the Philippines, it’s hot here but it’s growing! I started to plant the seeds during summer (early March) and temperatures were between 34-40 degrees celsius. I’ve planted it in medium size pots with good soil and drainage and now it’s growing like crazy. I’m training the vines to coves the entire wire trellis fence to cover my ugly neighbors house (LOL) and it’s doing it’s job. I just don’t know when it’ll start to flower and fruit.

By: alan massey

alan massey — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:57:01 +0000

my new passionfruit plants `( about a month) leaves have gone crinkly ,any suggestions ?

By: elaine stephenson

elaine stephenson — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:33:41 +0000

I am growing passiflora edulis from seed I bought in Hawaii. I neglected the seedlings for a few years in a pot- now they are in the ground here near Mission Bay in San Diego. The vines have taken over the backyard the last two years- and it finally started flowering late this summer. Still blooming here in early fall. Some flowers are white- some are purple. I have not seen any fruit- the flowers only last about a day and fall off. I have lots of painted lady butterflies in my garden- they lay eggs on the vine and the caterpillars chew on the leaves. I have a problem with spider mites- I probably don’t water enough. After reading comments I will fertilize w/ potash and see if that helps- I would love to see some fruit! I have bees in my garden- but I always see them crawling on the flowers before they open. I have tried hand pollinating- have not seen any results. I also think maybe it doesn’t get enough sun- I have a small fenced in yard that gets shaded by adjacent buildings and an increasingly large ficus tree- which the vine keeps trying to take over!

By: Carole

Carole — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:41:50 +0000

I lived in Kansas for nine years and the vine grows wild there. It was the southeast corner of Kansas and could be harvested in most of the state. Even though winters could be very cold (-50F wind chill ) and hot and humid (low 100′s F) in summer. They have a beautiful flower and are harvested for herbal use.