Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Passiflora seedlings, 0 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Neat seedlings, Indigoez! It will be fun to watch them grow and flower. I grew P. Morifolia from seed also. I ended up taking it out because it is a vigorous vine with little teeny tiny flowers and fruit follows practically every flower. (The fruit is not edible by the way.) I needed to make room for a fragrant vine with larger flowers! Here's a picture of the flower below.

Onalee, usually the fruit is ripe when it becomes purple and wrinkled. You can wait until it drops from the vine to harvest it. After cutting it open, scoop out the seeds and run them through a strainer. You can use a scrub brush to remove the slimy membranes from the seeds. Let dry on a papertowel. Then you can soak in water which starts out hand hot for 24 to 48 hours, changing the water every 24 hours. The seeds should be planted in the spring when the air temperature and soil temperature is above 70 degrees. Heat is important for successful germination. An alternate way is to plant the seeds with the slimy membrane and all any time, and they will come up the following spring.