This one finally bloomed. Do any of you know which one it is? When this plant started growing in this little pot, I thought it was a weed. It was just a pot of some old dirt. I never thought it was a passion flower until I noticed the leaves looked like one and I left it rather than pulling it out. Thank goodness I left it in there.........LOL
Now just to give it a name :)
Another view. Such a little plant and such a big flower.....LOL
One more........
Last one, I promise :)
Gorgeous Flo! Are the petals white, or lavender?
the petals are actually white
I'd say it's Passiflora incarnata http://plantsdatabase.com/go/1189/ but ya better get a second opinion....
thanks :)
Poppysue, is that different fr 'Insence'? We have 'Insence' @ the Farm.
Pretty! what a nice surprize!
Smockette, Incense has larger leaves and darker purple blooms, without that green around the center, or at least mine does.
Thanks Aimee. I just walk by this enorous one @ the Farm everyday & thought it looked a lot like flowox's pix.
Definitely a P. incarnata.
P. "Incense" leaves are 5-lobed, while incarata have tri-lobed leaves. And the flowers are no where similar.
thank you Tim :)
Flo ~ So pretty! My hubby, who is color-blind and not particularly flower-savvy, said it "looks like an alien spaceship landed on that plant"! HA!
ROTFL............they sure do have a strange, but absolutely beautiful look, don't they?
Absolutely beautiful, yes, yes!
Hmmmmm......Should I be mad at you, flowox, for calling me a ROTFL? Ha ha! So, am I a Round, Obtuse, Two-Footer Loser? Or a Rowdy Overzealous Toothless Flower Lover?
Ok, you have me rolling with laughter.........you do come up with some good ones ;)
I'm SERIOUS - what does ROTFL MEAN?! It took me two weeks to figure out "LOL" !
Rolling On The Floor Laughing - ROTFL
" " " " " Out Loud - ROTFLOL
" " " " " My Butt Off - ROTFLMBO
THANKS! How funny that I don't know all this!
Not funny at all. I remember when I first got online and didn't have a clue. I had to ask all kinds of things. For the longest time I didn't know what DS or DD or DH stood for in here and all the other little abreviations.
Thanks! Back to the flower - so cool-looking (don't care what DH says about aliens...) - do you grow them indoors, then put them out in the summer? How early? (since were same-zone-folks) Are they hard from seed?
I thought they were pretty easy from seed. It's just close to impossible to get them pollinated here though. I think we lack a certain moth or something. I bring them in before the frost and take them out once it stays warm out. I try to harden them off for about a week by taking them out in the day and in at night until they're used to being outside again.
I got my seeds from Tim on here last year and soaked them in OJ like he said and got almost all of them to germinate. Don't have a clue on how to get them to pollinate yet though and not sure if we can here in our area
That's so interesting!! Such good info, thanks. Did you look up info on that "firecracker vine" seed I sent you? I got them from Park Seed and they do look interesting! The leaves are so similar to some Pass. vines I have seen. Now you can grow something ELSE! (as if you didn't have enough, I'm sure!)
http://plantsdatabase.com/go/1317/
those are really neat looking for sure and I can't wait to grow them. I even got myself one of those signs that I'll hang on my gate "Beware of Attack Gardener" ROTFL.......the condo people are going to think I've absolutely lost it so if they come pick me up with the white coats, come rescue me ;)
Flo - try to hand pollinate it. If you can pollinate a brug you can pollinate your passion flower! On a passion flower there are 3 stigmas, they're kinda round and knobby looking. There will be 5 anthers that have yellow pollen on them. Take a brush (or your finger) and rub some pollen on each stigma.
It's fun to watch the fruits grow. I got several fruit on my incarnata plant last year. I had to bring the plant indoors for the winter. A couple of the smaller fruits dropped off before they were mature but a few of them grew to maturity.
do I have to use a different bloom to pollinate a bloom or a bloom from another P.F. or can I pollinate it from the same bloom?
Flo, I think with incarnata you can use the same bloom. I know with mine I didn't have any others for it to cross with.
Some of the hybrids are sterile and won't produce fruit and there are others that need to cross pollinate to make fruit.
k, I tried to pollinate it, we'll see what happens :)
I, too have had P. incarnata growing & blooming here in PA, zone 6b but it didn't come up this year. Sob. Guess I'll have to find another cutting & put it somewhere else. We did get a lot of rain this year. Maybe too much for P.
Is that last year's picture? It's lovely. The ones that are blooming now are ones that I got from cuttings this year. The ones that I got last year, bloomed last year but not this year, although they are growing like mad
Oh dear, the leaves look like pot!
LOL, I would have yanked it out and stomped it!
Skeered I'd get busted for growing a controlled substance,LOL!
It sure is gorgeous.
What would it take to get some seeds ?
