I got this plant at Lowes and it has a photo of a large fruit on the label. Well, although it has bloomed several times, it has not produced any fruit. Is this self fertile? Or are only some edulis self fertile. I really wanted to see some fruit that I could eat here. Do I need to do some hand pollinating and if so, from the same plant or a different passionvine? My collection is growing and will have different ones this coming year. Thanks in advance for your help.
P. Edulis "Frederick" question?
Hey girl!
I think you need a pollinator. My passiflora edulis 'flavicarpa' does, so I would imagine, your passiflora edulis does, too.
Need a flavicarpa cutting, or seeds?
-T
Hi there,
You sent me some flavicarpa seeds and I just sowed them yesterday, I soaked them about two weeks... and I ordered about 5 others this past week. Thank you so very much for everything. Lots of fruit is now on the morifolia from the seeds you sent me a couple of years ago. Boy, it sure takes a long time for them to ripen, one is getting some purple color to it. I am so anxious.
My Blue Boquet that you sent is looking really good and has new growth, the foetida isn't doing too good, but I moved them into my sewing room and hope it is warmer there for them.
This is a very addicting plant.
P.S. Edited to say: I am probably too late to pollinate it this year since it just stopped blooming and Incense is about the only one that is still blooming occasionally.
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Antoinette, you do know that P. morifolia is not edible, right? Just checking... They are just for decoration really:-)
I forgot to mention that sometimes a bee will pollinate them for you. I got a couple of fruits on my P. edulis last year without pollinating them myself.
Thanks guys, what am I supposed to pollinate it with, do I use some of it's own pollen? I did get one morifolia to ripen and just cleaned the seeds two days ago.
Antoinette, I would use your finger and act like a bee! Yes, try to pollinate it with its own pollen and also try with a different passiflora's pollen if you have it. P. morifolia's fruit tastes nasty and is inedible so I would avoid using that one, but the others should be all right.
I managed to pollinate a flower on my Frederick earlier this year, I used pollen from P. perusii. The fruit hasn't ripened yet though, and it's starting to get cold, but I still have hope:-) It also has another fruit on it that I have no idea who donated the pollen for lol. Should be interesting to see the seedlings if the fruit matures.
Good luck with your efforts:-)
Gourd, I have grown Edulis 'Frederick' for about 5 years now. Some flowers will self pollenate, but I found that if you hand polenate, you will get between 60 and 90 percent fruiting. No cross polenation with another plant is needed if it is really the Frederick variety. My friend had one that he never polenated and it would have about 100 baseball sized fruits hanging every year. Patrick Worley is the creator of this wonderful vine and is a good friend of mine. Do you know how to hand polenate it?
Mark
Clare, I tasted morifolia just because... you are right, there is NO taste, and it has this ugly orange coat around the seed. It looks scarey.. but I love the small flowers on it and the amount of blooms I am getting.
Indigoez, how wonderful, hopefully your fruit will reach maturity and hang in there, maybe you can use one of those sheets to cover it, or bring the whole plant inside. Most of mine are in pots and I can move them around. We have two acres and I still have all these pots all over the place mostly because of the gophers and roofrats in the area, they eat everything in site. I have a plan to use as many seedling that I can keep alive from seed (maypop, and whatever else I can find) and plant along the chainlink fences around here. Lots of ground to cover, but if they sucker like they are supposed to, I should have some nice looking fences..lol
zostropz, this past summer I learned how to hand pollinate after several tries finally managed to get two fruits on vitifolia, although I do not remember which pollen I used. Edulis "Frederick" quit blooming, but now that I know to hand pollinate, this next year, I sure will do that. There are several carpenter bees here and they seemed to pollinate several others, except Edulis "Frederick". There is another Edulis that is grown by the Rare Fruit Growers of CA and I cannot remember the name of it, but will post it here if I can find it again. I am really thinking of becoming a member of that group, they sell plants and trade plants that only they have/or they supply certain nurseries with some of the rare types of passies with fruit.
edited to say: the name of that passi is "Red Rover" also by Patrick Worley, they say that it tastes better than Frederick. I would love to find this one.
This message was edited Nov 8, 2004 9:36 PM