I hope someone here can help. I have a blue crown passi and a constance elliott passi that have been planted in ground for 5 for 6 years. The vines are healthy and beautiful, but neither has ever had a single flower. My maypops are also planted in ground and they flower all the time. Is there anything I can do to get these other 2 vines to bloom? Should they be planted in a pot instead of in ground?
Thanks so much for your help.
Linda
How to get passiflora to bloom?
Were they grown from seed?
I have a couple here that have never bloomed 3 years pour the fertilizer to them I am going to this year do they get enough sun??
The Blue Crown were grown from seeds, but the Elliott was a cutting. They are both in full sun. Is there a difference in seed grown passi's and rooted cuttings? I think i need to do some more research. Your help is greatly appreciated though. I know both of these vines have been planted there for at least 5 or 6 years, so they are very well established.
The Blue Crown were grown from seeds, but the Elliott was a cutting. They are both in full sun. Is there a difference in seed grown passi's and rooted cuttings? I think i need to do some more research. Your help is greatly appreciated though. I know both of these vines have been planted there for at least 5 or 6 years, so they are very well established.
Thanks, Ibartoo
I have grown them from seed and they bloom in a years time. Pour the bloom booster to them you have nothing to lose.
Linda,
I've read that some seed grown passiflora seldom or never bloom. I would not think that would be true of a cutting unless it came from a plant that wasn't blooming.
Darren
Thanks, I will try growing some in pots this year and feeding them with bloom booster. Maybe it will work this year. I would really love to see flowers.
Ret.Fla., would you happen to know if Maypop grown from seed don't bloom? I finely got three up and one has really began to take off. Thanks, James
Maypops grow wild here, so they definitely bloom from seed. My sister stomped a pod in my driveway many years ago and I had maypops everywhere. LOL
James,
From what I've read it could take more than 1 season to get maypop to bloom from seed, which purportedly happens with other passiflora. Then others will bloom in warmer areas in one season. I do know that plants grown from cuttings will bloom in the same season, even forming bud/blooms very quickly while working on new roots. This of course is discourage because it takes energy away from developing roots.
Maypops put out runners frequently and that is the perferred method of propagation for them as it is so easy.
Here is just one thread I quickly found from searching the net that suggests some seedlings don't bloom;
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/passiflora/msg0619331032762.html?19
Thanks Darren.
Linda, seed grown plants usually take longer to bloom than cuttings, but both should have bloomed by now unless of course, you were sold mislabeled seeds/plants. If you like the Constance Elliott, I have a bunch started right now. Maybe we can trade for some Maypop seeds or something. I also just brought home a couple of long branches of my own Blue Crown, a.k.a., Caerulea that I had growing where I use to live and I just put them in last night for rooting. If those root up, I can send you one of those too.
Mark
Thanks Mark, I would love to trade with you. Right now I do not have any fresh maypop seeds. However as soon as some of the vines return from last year, I can trade cuttings or offer other plants. I also read somewhere, that p. caerulea blue crown needs a friend like blue bouquet to encourage blooming. The Constance Elliott and Blue crown are planted about 100' apart on different trellises. I will try to take pics. today. May that will help.
Thanks again, Linda
I read somewhere that "threatening" them, by restricting the roots may help to encourage blooming. So I put each different variety in 10 gallon pots yesterday and staked them up. I was thinking of feeding them some bloom booster. Is there something better to feed them?
Thanks, Linda
My Blue Crown is a rooted cutting and it blooms it's head off .. I feed the bajeebers out of all my passies - Some passies like the P. aurantia and P. x allardii grown from seed can take up to 3 years before blooming. I grow all mine in 1 gallon pots - I wouldn't be surprised if keeping them pot bound also encourages blooming. I feed mine with that plain old 1 tbs. per gallon stuff but actually use 1.5 tbs per gallon.
Thanks so much Xeranthemum. I now have some in pots and I am going to try feeding the bajeebers of of them too. I hope it works.