Passiflora trifasciata Tri-colored
This years Passies
Passiflora foetida var gossypifolia
Passiflora Lady Margaret
Passiflora aurantia
I love to trade cuttings of any of these! Just let me know!
Xera, I love your photographs and different passies. Just stunning :) I especially like
Passiflora aurantia. I've just ordered some seeds to it. Did you grow yours from seed
or cuttings?
I'd love to trade some with you too, but I won't make my list until next month.
Boy, you sure do have some beautiful flowers.
Do you know how old you aurantia is before she bloomed?
Thanks! I started the seed for Aurantia early last Fall, overwintered it in the greenhouse and come Spring the vine was a spindly pathetic thing .. I almost tossed it .. Once the soil temperature came up and it started actively growing it went berserk and the first bloom was about a month ago.
I usually start my passie seeds in early September and overwinter the plants in the greenhouse.
That's when I like to start mine too, hence my seed order. Thanks for the bloom info.
Sure is a beauty. You mentioned temps went up-do you have her in the ground or potted?
Potted .. I never ever put vines in the ground.
Is that because of your growing zone Xeramtheum? I just put one in today,
It's one from the group of those I have on another thread that no-one can identify.
Mine seem to be better in ground, but then I'm blessed with milder winters too.
Yes because of my zone .. I don't want to take any chances of vines getting away from me. We have too many invasive non natives as it is. I grew up in South Florida and have seen how non native invasive plants have pretty much decimated the Everglades. One of my favorite things to do as a teenager was to go swamp tromping with my camera and take pictures of the rare and unique orchids in the hammocks .. they have all but disappeared. I spend about an hour a week cutting off seed pods of honeysuckle growing on my split rail fence because it is horribly invasive and spread by birds. If I can't control it, I won't grow it.
The blue and purple passiflora, don't know what species, were rampant in Ft. Lauderdale when I was young .. it was a difficult to get rid of and considered a noxious weed that engulfed everything.
I think you are talking of incarnata and caerulea?
Don't know what species they were - I didn't get into Passies until I discovered they came in other colors besides blue and purple.
Lol Xeramtheum, a purple has got to be my personal favorite-Cincinnatta. I'm also in love with your
Passiflora foetida var gossypifolia. (besides the aurantia) A few years back, I ordered seed to this from TurtleGaby.
She assured me it would turn out as her photograph depicted. It bloomed, and is the common, everyday N. American
purple foetida. I'm not complaining about the bees she draws, only that the cultivar she said she was selling me was way off.
well... do you have Anastasia... not bule or purple
she's liely to throw bigger darker flowers as she has the process down some... this is her first bloom
Yum! That's gorgeous! When you're ready to root some cuttings, please let me know!
Lady Margaret has to be my all time favorite for red!
Oh, they are both beautiful. I have been eyeing Lady Margaret for a next month purchase, and the
Anastasia has a color that is unbelievable. I love it Gordon! I've been admiring both of you two's
flowers for a few months now as I go through these old threads. You sure do know what to do with your passions.
I've been meaning to ask you both: Do you fertilize? There is so much misinformation out there about this
and passions, and both of you always have such lovely flowers to show...so what is your secret(s)? ;)
I'm a feeder.. addative user../ abuser ..
I spray everything with the recipe.. a home made concoction brom the brugmansia folks as often as I can...
I spray everything with spray-n-grow.. I use their perfect bloom kit.. once a week...
www.spray-n-growgardening.com/
I fertilize with Algoflash.. as often as can stop to do it.. a few tmes a week usually
http://algoflash.com/ it's the best ever...be sure to go to their worlds records list.. on their web site
everything is planted with a hefty scoop of decomposed and dehydrated cow manure..
good luck with yours
Thank you Gordon. I'm looking over those links now. Lowes does not sell Algoflash, so I'll end up in Naples. A nice ride down though.
I wonder if Xeramtheum is going to tell us any secrets? ;)
yes you're in luck there... the company site lists one dealer in FL.. in naples there.. give it a try.. they make lots of formulations of it.. I'm not sure what passi's lie for a balance... they have such short stock near me I'm using household for mine now... we cal all order online... it's by far the cheepest as the local dealer here marks it up so... it about the same with the sky high shipping from the company site...
SO give the algoflash a try... and write back to me [ US ] and let's hear what you thought of it... it really is head and shoulders above any of the others I've tried... for making the plant do so well... and the heavy flowering is an extention of that... and it's so apparent n a few weeks.... did you see their worlds records on their site... I was not a believer at first.. but I'm converted and a zealot.. it seems to be the way the support minerals and such are balanced and active wth the N-P-K in the plant..
don't overlook the spray-n-grow also... I've been using that one for some 38 years.. plants wake up in the morning ..and say to them selves... MY MY...what can I do to get myself flowering... today..
Wow-is that a lovely rooftop garden? I will definitely look into the spray-n-grow too Gordon. Thank you for the tips,
and yes, your garden has me convinced. Perhaps I'll be posting some of my own in a month or two ;)