I have a chance to get some Maypop vines.. Do I want it? I have not had any experience with it.
Sugar
Maypop
it's a good passiflora and will be hardy for you too. it should be in the database under passiflora incarta.
sugar,
Not only is it hardy, is grows wild in FL too. Just give it a well drain soil, not too rich though, and as much sun as you can give it. Look up Passiflora incarnata in the Plants Database.
Been wanting to ask a question about digging these up. I have hundreds in my vegetable garden area. When I dig them up in early spring, it feels like I'm not getting the whole thing. All I get is a few tiny hair roots. Is there a deep rooted tuber under there? And the ones I dig and put in pots grow very, very slow, while the ones still in the ground just take off. The ones I have in pots now are just beginning to grow (dug them either March or early April) whereas the ones in the garden have been blooming for weeks and have large maypops on the vines.
Yes, there are large roots under the suckers, and you can start them by planting in pots. One of the reasons why those you planted in pots are slow to start is that they need time to recover and establish roots.
Thanks, Tim. You must have to dig to China to get the large root. I have dug pretty deep trying to get what I thought was the whole thing and never did get it.
Sugar be careful where you plant it as it is an invasive plant. I planted one three years ago and it is eveywhere in my yard. I have rock hard clay soil in the middle of my garden and it even grows there. It is a lovely fragrant plant that will produce geen balls and at the end of the flowering season they will turn yellowish-green, then comes the surprise...they are edible. They taste wonderful but the only draw back is they have a lot of seeds and you just can't get enough of that wonderful fruit.
if you pull them up at first sign of life in the spring, they don't come back there in same year. we have some come up in the lawn, we just cut once, and they leave us alone. I only have them in one flower bed, and I encourage them there.
Tig I have pulled them and tried digging them up but they still come back every year.
I planted one plant last year, and this year it is everywhere! It is coming up in the grass, and it is all over my roses. I usually have an influx of caterpillars that strip the plants, so they have never been a problem. This year, the caterpillars are late.
Melva
The caterpillars have arrived, so the plant is getting eaten as I type...I am glad I got a before picture, now, an after will show the difference.
Melva
these are the same passion vines i offer every spring for postage. the roots are deep. this is why i dig them repot them and then mail them out a month later. this way they have good rooots on them. they grow all over my garden here. my theory is if i keep digging them out that maybe one day i wilo not have them in the veggie garden anymoe. lol good thinking but not practical.
Are you all talking about the passifora that is the first one in the second row of the passiflora gallery?
thanks
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Kell, here's the url for maypop ... http://plantsdatabase.com/go/1189/