I have a lot of Passiflora plants in my yard (used to be a field) that I mow over all the time. They always come back. I've seen that a lot of people on here love wild passiflora. Would anyone be interested in some of these, and if so, what is the best way to get them out of the ground and mailed? Will they do well if I dig them out of the ground, since they are wild? What would be the best method for doing this?
CLOSED: Passiflora vines in my yard
I would think that you would have to soak them as soon as you dig them up.. if you plan to keep some, pot them up immediately and put the pots in the shade until you see new growth. You would probably have to find the rooted runners and or small rooted plants to dig up. To mail them, you would have to wrap the roots in papertowels, then wet them and insert just the rooted section into a plastic baggie or wrap with seran wrap. After that, you should use some newspaper to make like a cone, or just roll the whole plant in a roll and fold the bottom of the newspaper and tape with scotch tape to keep the roll closed. When you do ship them out, you should ship them out via Priority mail, the boxes and tape, labels, are free from the U.S. post office (you can order the supplies on line) and Depending what you want to trade for, you can ship a whole lot of passies in one box, if it has a good size vine, there are boxes that are the size (14"x12") that you can fit several rolls into and since passies are very light in weight, cost should be about 5.00 per box.. sometimes more..
Also, when I wet the papertowel, I use a spray bottle with water mixed with superthrive and use that to soak the paper, and spray the leaves. They say to cut off most of the leaves off the plants before you ship them. Before I even pack up plants, I soak their roots in a container with superthrive in the water, just to make sure they hang in there for their trip. Try not to ship during really hot weather as the baggies get really hot and boil the roots (I have heard) but it has not happened to me. When I used foil, they did rott. Seran wrap may be your best bet, I have gotten some with the new seran wrap that is called Press and Seal, which lets the plants breath.. One more thing, if there is too much water coming out of your wrapped plants, squeeze out some of it, because if the box gets wet and the PO thinks there is something dangerous in there, it will get opened and may be delayed. Even using priority mail, sometimes newly dug up plants suffer shock.
After all that....I hope I helped some.. and hope others jump in with stuff I left out too. Antoinette
I'd be happy to get some. I've had a hard time starting them up. Mostly everthing I grow is started on top of the fridge or in the bathroom (big place.) I will email you, cherishlife, ok?
I'd be interested in some too please.
Gourd: I dug 4 of them up a week ago, or tried to.... the ground was so hard that the dirt was baked. I dug around it the best I could but the dirt kept breaking away from the root. The root is so easily broken that I could only get 6 to 8 inches of it. I decided to experiment with them. I read on another thread that peroxide (10 parts water to 1 part peroxide) solution was really a succes with some plants, so I have one in that solution. Up to today, the leaves looked great, but today they have wilted. The other three are outside in a pot of good soil. It's been raining off and on the last two days and I've forgotten to check on them.
With the recent rain, it would be a good time to try and dig more up, however, I have been so busy with the Winterberry Hosta coop that I've not had time to move out of this chair. I finally got to a stopping point so decided to check my other threads out.
It sounds like I need to dig some up now, get them established and ship them to people who want them in the fall. They would then be able to put them in the ground so that the plants can get their roots established during the winter.
Oh yeah, the soil should be as wet as possible, soak it with a hose if it is not, prior to digging. Also, if you have a bottle mister, mist them, they do well with some humidity.. the leaves may still wilt some, but it will help. You may have to wash off some of the soil off the runners to see where is a good place to cut that has some roots. I just found a runner on one of my passion vines.. very excited here, this is one of the two I have in the ground.. and this is the first year too with them, so I am very happy.. now, if they spread really fast, I don't know what I will do.. I guess dig them up too, won't know till next spring though.
What color are yours? And do you get fruits/seeds? on them.
They are lavender, and yes they have fruit. I used to eat them when I was a kid.
The one I had in water died, and the three I have in the potting soil outside LOOK like they have died, however, I just checked on them and there are two new shoots coming out of the soil. Looks like they are going to live. I didn't see how I could kill them as much as I run over them with the lawn mower and they just keep coming back. I've got some good looking ones closer to the house that I think I'll try potting up. I can't promise anyone anything yet, but I'll keep trying. I'm keeping emails from the ones that were interested, in a file.