This is blooming in a container,from the seeds I recieved from Mitjo,last fall,so from less than one year to bloom,can anyone Identify this passiflora?
My first Edulis Bloom
Pic of leaves and flower.
Nice photo of the edulis for sure.....mine are not blooming.....yet :-( Healthy green leaves and sturdy stem, but alas no flowers yet....sigh....what could I be doing wrong? I have them in the ground with acidic soil and in fertile soil, and in containers with potting soil, moist and dry soil and clay rocky soil......am I trying to hard? Probably!
Pretty Don!
Thanks Marcy,
MMS,sounds like what your doing is great,are they getting full sunshine?
Tropicman - Yep! Full Sun......is that the problem? I have wonderfully healthy plants, but no flowers yet this year........almost like the morning glory syndrome. I figured maybe they don't like too much nitrogen based fertilzer.....so I starved them.....nothing, but they still look healthy. Last year they did great........when I left them alone, lol. You have nice flowers on all of yours.....I'm envious, good job ;-)
Dennis
Looks like P. edulis to me. This is P.eduilis Nancy Garrison.
Hey Monterey ,I can't see any difference in the 2 flowers can you?
Yep Dennis probably need a little more sun.
The blooms look very small compared to the leaves
is that usual?
Or just MONSTER leaves?
Those are huge leaves! Nice P. Edulis, Don!
Thanks,and yes they tend to be quite large,is that the norm?
Hi Don, that is probably the norm, but I've seen some smaller. Maybe they get larger as the vine gets bigger, or perhaps they vary with environmental factors.
Thanks Clare.I'll bet your right.
Check out my Nancy Garrison entry in the database.It has all about edulis.Pics and stuff. The leaves look like lettuce. Here's a full-size plant pic.
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Well looks like it,if fruit we'll know more for sure.
Rich, Don's edulis leaves are definitely larger than yours. It may just be a trait that varies with each hybrid. P. edulis is easily grown from seed so there can be slight differences and variations with hybrids. My last P. edulis leaves were smaller and light green and a little shiny. My current P. edulis leaves are larger and more shiny.
Don, you definitely have a Passiflora edulis. They coloring of the flower and the shiny leaves are characteristic of P. Edulis.
This is last year's P. edulis:
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Don what size is the container you have yours in? Could you please take a picture of your whole plant as well.
The pic that has the whole vine is in the ground,but have another one in gallon pot,vine is about 6 ft long and had 2 blooms yesterday,well try to get a pic for you.
Clare,some of the ones in the ground that hasn't flowered have twice as large leaves as the one in the pic with the flower and all the leaves.
Those I think were all the same seeds for they came out of the same package that I got from Mitjo.
Thanks Don! I have one that's about 10 feet but no blooms yet. :( It's a year old now....maybe my summer wasn't warm enough for it.
Hi Don! It must be all that wonderful soil you're growing them in! Are you fertilizing them? If so, I would stop! I hear that fertilizing passiflora leads to lots of lush growth at the expense of flowers.
Lil,I think they bloom when they get darn good and ready too! LOL
Clare yes I quit fertilizing everything in the Garden after August 19th.
Yep they went cold turkey,For a while I thought they where having syptoms of withdrawals,they where shaking all over,but then I realized it was just the wind a blowin!!!LOL!
LOL, Don! My P. edulis leaves are pretty small, and it hasn't bloom yet this summer, but it is still a very small vine grown from seed. I hope you get some more flowers before the cold approaches.
I've had about 4 more blooms,the flowers are so far spaced apart,they for some reason are not several in line on a single stem,but scattered around one to a stem.The flowers in the container are bigger than the ones in the ground,go figure that one out!!!
LIl,heres the pic of edulis in container.
again
Those are mighty big leaves there, Don!
I know bigger than my hand!!!
Thanks Don.......That is the same size that mine are in (and it looks like my plant too)....thank you for the confirmation and now I know mine will bloom (sooner or later) in a pot as well. :)
p.s. sorry I'm so late seeing this post!!
Your welcome lil,r u ready for ezperanza seeds,pink caster beans and Lady Margeret?
:D I'll initiate contact now!! :D
ok!
Got through!!!!!!!! Will email you the snail mail addy as soon as I get a reply! SIL is still making trips up here! :D