Noticed these little baby passion flowers growing in a potted plant. They're from recycled potting soil. I planted the passies in Febuary!
Baby passies
poppysue, looks like some critter likes them too! :~)
I recycle soil too and have odd things come up. It's always a nice surprise. Are they p. capsularis?
I think they are capsularis! Seeds from you - LOl. I got the first bloom on one of my bigger plants yesterday. When I planted them 4 or 5 sprouted right away... and then nothin so I tossed the soil. They're sprouting in a Solanum quitoense pot now. It's the solanum that has chewed leaves. The slugs love it.
very pretty!!!!
Sue,
According to Vanderplank, P. rubra and P. capsularis are similar except for the fruit.
Tim, is rubra the one with reddish colored fruit?
Susie,
I believe so. I have severals from the little ones you sent me, which are rubra since the fruit are similar to mine.
Thanks Tim. I got them labeled as "capsularis" but when you posted once about the pods on "rubra" being red, I figured that's what I had.
Thank Goodness somebody got a passiflora to sprout from seed.....with all I've read about them I had kinda shied away from them .....but now......At least I know now it can be done... LOL... :O)
Willow, I've had a few sprout from seed, but some I'm still waiting on. I think fresh seeds make a big difference in how fast they sprout.
Yep, from what I've read and researched the easies ones to sprout are fresh seed. There has been some success using dried seed but it is limited and usually in a controlled setting......or maybe just by accident....anyway I'm gonna keep trying when I have seeds.....I have sprouted the plain wild type but that was fresh seed too....
Do you know how old the seeds were???..... :o)
Willow, if you're asking me, the old seeds were a year old. I have had success with some that were less than six months old.
Thanks Calalily, That helps...I am trying to germinate seeds of an undertmined age....I have put the pots where I will still care for them but they won't be thrown out within the next year...although that may be what I should do...seems to have worked for poppy.........LOL...:o)
Has anyone experimented with the peroxide and distilled water method like used for Hems and hard to sprout seeds? I'm not really suggesting it, but curious.
I did a lot of them using the paper towel/baggy method. I soaked them first in orange juice until the juice got nasty... about 3 days. Then I rinse and clean the seeds with water, place them on a clean paper towel, fold the towel into quarters, and place it in a zip-loc bag to keep them moist. I checked them every few days to see if any have germinated. Seeds that are no good will rot after a week or so and can be removed. This past winter, I germinated several different species this way. In fact... I still have quite a few different ones in a baggy that still haven't germinated. They were put there months ago! This thread prompted me to go through them today. I changed them all to fresh paper towels and gave them all a rinsing with warm water. There was only a couple that had rotted. The rest still look plump and firm. I even have 6 seeds of the P.trifasciata seeds that still haven't sprouted.
Poppy how big are these seeds? I know the ones from wild Passies are kinda big (or big enough) but the ones I planted of the triple stripe were very tiny ....
The instructions said to scratch the seed and soak it over night before planting...I did this when I scratched one seed it powdered...just crushed to nothing....
well I didn't scratch the other ones...just soaked them and planted them about 24 hrs later......:O)
The trifasciata are a lot smaller then the maypop seeds. If the seeds are any good they shouldn't disintegrate like that. Sounds like they might be too old....
Yep, thats what I think too Poppy.....I'll still wait and see....:o(
Dr Molinari told me not to use peroxide with passionvines, he said to use orange, lemon or passiflora juice like Poppysue said. I figured he was the expert, so I didn't use peroxide.