Do you think I can grow passion vines in pots and sink them into the ground like Monica said to do with the brugs? Will it bother them to be pulled out of the ground in the fall? I wonder if I should cut holes in the pots...
Passiflora in pots??
Poppysue, I did that last year with 3 gallon pots of passiflora. The only one that rooted to the ground and sent out runners was Lavender Lady. All of the others were easy to bring back inside. The only other problem I had was getting them unentangled from all the stuff growing around them. I swear, some of those runners were 10 feet long!!!
Can ya'll please explain why you would plant them in pots the plant them in the ground?? I have a couple in pots, but I don't put the pots in the ground.
Well I'm thinking if the pots are in the ground it will mean less watering and be easier to dig up to bring them inside for winter.
I tried the pot trick one summer. For me, it didn't cut down on watering - it made it worse. The roots filled the pot and it got dry faster than the surrounding soil. I had to water daily. Because the plants kept getting stressed from lack of water, I hardly got any blooms that summer. They were easier to bring in, but the pots I had them in were 2 gallons and huge. I try to just bring newly rooted cuttings in now to save space for the winter. I take cuttings in August and they're pretty well rooted by frost in October.
I put a couple in the ground last year in the pots, but only about two gallon size. They were very hard for me to keep watered. Won't do it again. Will just plant and do like Dawn, take cuttings and then let them go.
I keep my big passifloras in at least a 5 gallon pot. I planted last fall the passifloras in with the brugs in 25 gallon pots and they are both doing great so far.
When I first started collecting them, I planted them in the ground with their pots, some with the bottoms cut out while the others were intact. All pots were 3 gl. Let just say I will need to cut the roots off with a shovel if I want to remove them.
Last year before heading out for our honeymoon, I planted two P. x belotii with their 7gl pots, with the bottoms on. When I dug them up in Nov. I sliced the escaped rooted around the pots.
Anyway, most of these plants were root bounded when I first got them. I took one out, removed most of the old soil, filled with new stuff, packed in the pot, and then buried it. All the root-bounced plants required more water than the freshly repotted plant, but in the end after being in the ground for a few months, water requirment of all plants were the same.
I have most of mine in 8" terra cotta pots, which require water just about everyday.
You folks have answered some questions for me. Last summer a friend gave me a tiny cutting of a Passiflora which I planted in a under-the-bed blanket storage box. It grew wonderfully and this year will need to be in a pot. I have some large black nursery pots about 5 gallon size and probably will use one of them so the thing won't take over the yard. This one is suppose to be hardy in zone 5 so it will likely survive here outside. However I have one that isn't hardy and living in the plant room. My daughter gave it to me after 2 years of it growing wildly but never blooming. I guess I will put it in a nice big pot in one corner of the plant room and put a floor to ceiling trellis behind it. Then it can grow nice and tall and hopefully bloom.