i have tried and tried and failed miserably. my hubby loves them and i cant get the seeds to germinate.
i have tried soaking in orange juice and putting in a window and chipping the shell nothing germinates for me. what am i doing wrong. i know its late in the season for them and cant find any vines or seedlings at my local nursery. thanks for the walkthrough on how to start seeds. marie
how to start passion vines from seed???
Marie where did you get your seeds?? Passiflora seeds need to be fairly fresh to get a good germination rate....I just dry the seeds from my fruit, and within a couple of weeks I plant them in a seed starting mix barely covered, water in well, and poof....I pulled up a ton of small seedlings this spring(they tend to take over)...I wish I would have known...Debra~
funny as it may sound, I remember reading here in DG about starting passiflora seeds in orange juice for 4 hrs (you may trace the thread if you search for "passiflora germination" here in DG. The acidity of the orange juice resembles the acidity in bird droppings where the seeds are carried, perhaps. Would you try it ???
Dimitri
i got the seeds in a swap from another site so cant say how old they are. i guess i will try and find some fresher ones.
i tried the orange juice and it didnt work but maybe due to the fact they may be old seeds.
Imzadi, Passiflora seeds can take up to a year to germinate. I have germinated P. Edulis, P. Mollissima, P. Amethystina, and P. Morifolia from seed. You can soak in water which starts out hand hot for 24 to 48 hours before sowing, changing the water every 24 hours. I just found two P. Edulis seedlings coming up in the rose bed where I had tossed the soil they were in. I think I sowed those in January. They are about a foot tall so they must have come up in April or May. Most of the seeds usually germinate in 60-90 days if they are fresh, but some do take much longer.
Soaking the seed for a very long time in plain water- about two weeks- will soften the shell. I've germinated some very old p. seeds this way. I don't change the water.
I've also heard that refrigerating for 3 months helps. This is what I'm trying now with seed I couldn't get to germinate in May/June. I planted them, they didn't sprout, so I put them in the frig. I just took them out, so we'll see what happens next.
ImZadi
if you want some seeds for the joy of getting them from seed I can send you some fresh seeds.. well fresh like in the yellow fruit today.. it's on Clear Sky .. got anything to trade? Gordon
We just stuck a 10 inch cutting into water adn within 4 weeks it had plantable roots. I hope it will survive the winter being planted this late.
Knees, congratulations on your cutting rooting! Some do definitely root easier than others.
I just sow in the container, after two weeks seeds germinated with out any problem. I sowed 05 seeds only three germinated. Small plants are very beautiful.
will a wild passie start from cuttings?? i saw one on the side of the road the other day.
thanks for all the wonderful advice.
Imzadi, I would say definitely yes. Usually one of the reasons they become wild and escape cultivation is because they root so easily in the ground or wherever it is moist.