Just thought I'd share my Passiflora seedlings with my fellow vine nuts:-)
Below are P. morifolia seedlings, which have fallen over... they germinated a lot faster than the others, thus are larger.
Passiflora seedlings
P. subrotunda... only one came up:-(
P. tricuspis
And P. loefgrenii 'Corupa'
Indigoez -
Can you share with us any hints on when to pick the fruit and how to process and plant the seeds?
You look like you are doing very well with them!
Onalee
Actually, I bought the seeds online. The two fruits (the first ones I've had) I have on my edulis are not ripe yet:-( Maybe someone else can help?
Neat seedlings, Indigoez! It will be fun to watch them grow and flower. I grew P. Morifolia from seed also. I ended up taking it out because it is a vigorous vine with little teeny tiny flowers and fruit follows practically every flower. (The fruit is not edible by the way.) I needed to make room for a fragrant vine with larger flowers! Here's a picture of the flower below.
Onalee, usually the fruit is ripe when it becomes purple and wrinkled. You can wait until it drops from the vine to harvest it. After cutting it open, scoop out the seeds and run them through a strainer. You can use a scrub brush to remove the slimy membranes from the seeds. Let dry on a papertowel. Then you can soak in water which starts out hand hot for 24 to 48 hours, changing the water every 24 hours. The seeds should be planted in the spring when the air temperature and soil temperature is above 70 degrees. Heat is important for successful germination. An alternate way is to plant the seeds with the slimy membrane and all any time, and they will come up the following spring.
Hi Clare - Just to clalify - after you dry them on the papertowel you store them until the spring and then soak them 24- 48 hours before planting, right? The soaking is just before planting, not part of the cleaning process ?
Thanks for your help!
Onalee
Onalee, right you are! After the seeds are cleaned and dried, they can be stored until spring, but if you want to sow them now in containers, you can soak them and plant them now while the weather stays warm. If you get frost in your area, I would bring them inside for the winter and let them continue to germinate and grow by a sunny window.
Thanks for the info Clare:-) I knew the flowers on morifolia would be small, but it stated that it was easy to germinate, (and compared to the small # of the other ones that sprouted, I would have to agree) so I wanted to try it. I'm hoping that they all attain some size before I have to bring them in.
Thanks!
Onalee
Sure, guys. Indigoez, I think you are right that they should grow nicely for you. The P. morifolia gets a pretty thick stem fairly quickly and is a good grower.
I have P. edulis Nancy Garrison (check out the fruit and plant at Nancy Garrison in the database) seeds as well as P.caerulea.Anyone need these?