Is there another variety with bigger flowers than this?
A whopping 5 inches!!!
Beautiful Don. Which one is this?
Alto x Caerulea,or P x belotti?
That's the purple one I have, doesn't it smell lovely?
wow! very pretty.
Yes it has the very fresh clean smell,I like to keep my nose in it!LOL!
I grew mine by the front door this year so I could pick a bloom to float for the kitchen table whenever I felt like it. It is pretty hard to keep the nose out of them, but sometimes I would get a big sneeze from it.
Hi Don, do you overwinter it in greenhouse or leave it outside? Also does it flower in the first year of sowing?
Sue
Hi Sue,
Yes its overwintering outside in the greenhouse,very vigourous grower,bought it as a seedling,just about 3 inches tall,and it flowered the first summer about 4 months after I bought it.
Don, have you ever had seeds on this one? I have grown her for about four years and never have had fruit on her. Guess I might have to try pollinating some of the blooms this year to see what I can come up with.
Your hibiscus seeds are still here. Too much snow to wade through to get to the PO. Will try to get all my seed envelopes out on Monday. I didn't figure you were in a hurry for them right now anyway. Everything is stamped and ready to go if Old Man Winter would co-operate with me.
Brugie no fruit as of yet here either,whats up ith the red x? Pic was therte when I posted it.
Naw no hurry on the seeds still have 6 inches of snow on the ground here.
Picture again
Beautiful flower! Something goofy has been going on with pictures the last few days. It will show up eventually. ;)
Dave fixed it tonight.
Yep its showed up,I thought I'd done something wrong.
Bseed did you get much freezing rain the other day or just snow?
My Belotii made fruit when I hand pollinated, but the fruits were empty, no seed.
Calalilly,I tried hand pollination with the belotii,with caerulea,but it didn't take,I guess I'll try again.
Tropicman, try using incarnata or caerulea pollen, I think those were the pollens I used that made the fruit(although it was empty fruit). John Vanderplank's passiflora book doesn't mention fruit on belotii, so I wonder if it's sterile?
Calalily ,does that mean all hybrids are sterile?
I don't know enough about them to answer that question. We need Tim or one of the other passiflora experts. I do know I got seeds from Lavender Lady(Amethyst) and they germinated, and it's a hybrid isn't it?
Yes its a Patrick Worleys Hybrid,but haven't found a site that says it produces fruit,of any size or color or whether its edible.I to don't know enough about the passiflora,but will keep searching for an answer.
Bumpity bump bump...
Howdy Folks!....Just a quick question...
How hardy is this P. Belotti? I have an idea it may not survive our Zone 7 (like the indigenous incarnat do!) but would like to find out for sure.
And no...many websites just don't offer that info (that I found so far, anyway).
Shoe.
Logees' list it as zone 8 or higher.
Thanks, Tropicman.
I noticed some goods pics in Plant Files but no info was filled in about this one. (I'm hesitant to add the info unless I've grown it before.)
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/103461/index.html
Again, much obliged!
Shoe.
Welcome
Only ones that I've have been hardy here in zone6 are cearula,lavender lady,and incaranata.
Thanks...I'll write those down. (We have incarnata growing wild here so hopefully the others you mentioned will remain in my mind!)