I have a Passiflora Edulis that Don was kind enough to give me last year and it never has flowered. Don started then in January I believe and this baby is enormous. I still have it in the ground and I'm really torn about digging it up or not. What do you all think of the flowering of this 1? Is it worth all the trouble? I ended up shovel pruning P. Morifolia, that 1 has vines that go crazy and has the tiniest flowers of any Passiflora I've ever seen. The flowers are beauties but only bloom in the full shade of it's own leaves so I culled it or so I thought. It popped back up so we will see if it lives through the winter.
Anyhow, please let me know what you all think about P. Edulis and also let me know how big the flowers are and what they look like. I appreciate it.
JD
P. Edulis not flowering:(
I can't really advise, but I started one of the P. Edulis from seed a few years ago and it took until the second summer for it to bloom. The blooms were nice, white, and I thought very pretty, but like most vines I grow, they are short lived. I just don't have room for them all in the house over the winter.
The flowers of P. edulis are a lot bigger than P. morifolia. They are nice but not fragrant.
This is P. edulis Nancy Garrison, small flowers but makes a lot. I have seeds.
Thanks all.
Monterey. Would you be interested in a seed swap or sase? I'm out of room to bring anything else indoors and I'm pretty sure winter will take this 1 out. I may try to take some cuttings but space here is hard to come by. Please let me know what you'd be willingh to trade or the like and thanks a bunch!
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
My Edulis flowered this summer,which was from the same seedlings as yours came from,yes this vine was huge,mine did produce a couple fruit,so I cut it way back and dug it up,and brought it inside for the winter,and its growing well inside,quite better than any other vareity I have,and I have about 20 or so different vareities,let me know if your cuttings come out,I have not yet tried to root a cutting from edulis,and was wondering how easy it might be to root.
Don
Hey Don, Nice to hear from you again. I read your post you made when your Edulis produced it's 1st flower. I ran outside immediately to inspect mine and found nothing. this vine is darn hardy!!! Mine is still in the ground and shows absolutely no signs of frost damage nor any signs of switching into flowering mode. My cuttings aren't looking too good so far but I didn't get a chance to use the same techniques I did when we last expiramented(cubes, heatmats, flouro lights etc.) and it really shows. The humidity in this house(or lack of I should say) really is taking it's toll on my Passion flowers. It sucks the life right out of them to the point of being limpy and wilty. I lucked out by sucking up to my daughters biology teacher by providing them with lots of vines for their horticulture expiraments which happen to be taking cuttings from 1 mother plants in 8 different ways. They vary from different mediums to different hormones etc.. He is letting me bring up a bunch of plants for the winter so I'm going to dig up the Edulis you gave me in hopes I'll get to see it flower over winter. They have a sunroom like greenhouse up there. It's a combo of both with a glass cieling and a South facing glass wall with fans and vents but the rest of the walls are cinderblock sadly. He has also set up a few HID lamps in there to make up for the lack of sun the brick walls block. My Belotti and Caerulea's are in bloom up there right now and the others aen't far behind. So I'll have no worries of loosing any of my Passie's to the winter.
You know what really floors me is I have several brugs I left in the ground(I did take cuttings of them so I'll be ready for next spring) and they are blooming more than they did in the heat of summer! Blooms everywhere and thicker than ever. I can hardly believe my eyes. They show signs of frost burn on many of the top leaves but they just keep blooming. This has been the strangest year of gardening ever for us with August being more like June was and September was warmer than August. I don't know what to think nor do our plants.
My Lavender Ladies are doing great in the living room under the 1000 watt MH we have set up. It took until last week to get used to the indoor enviroment and began blooming over the weekend! I was so shocked. This year I had 6 different Lavender Ladies growing in places that varied from pots on the deck to in the ground in partial shade and in the ground in full sun. This particular plant is just so tuff and has thrived in every condition I put it in. I still have 1 outside on a trellis that my puppies have been digging at and chewing on. It's still green and had blooms on it until last weekend. The Passies have broken all the rules I've read about them this year. The hearty 1's were weaker than the 1's that were supposed to be the more tender vines and vise versa. Just when I thought I knew the habits and tendencies of all my plants, the weather throws me a curveball which made the plants do the same. Go figure, let's just pray winter is kind to us and spring comes around like we're used to it being. I don't think I could handle another sad gardening summer like this past 1.
GEEZ< I just looked out back to see some of the Canna's I missed when digging up the others...They're blooming today too! I better get out there and do some more digging as they're forcasting a hard freeze here Wednesday night.
Adios, jeff
Sounds like you got everything under control,my cuttings are looking sadly too.
Yes a few brugs left outside are blooming too.
Good luck overwintering everything.
Don