All you passiflora growers, in your opinions, based on your experience, what's your favorite passionflower food?
Do you use organic or chemical? Both?
Names of your products?
How often do you feed?
Etc.
Passiflora Food
CaptMicha, I've read somewhere that passifloras prefer the poor soil of their native land and do better without fertilizer. Of course, different passifloras are native to different places so I'm not sure which ones the writer was referring to, but I have read from several different sources that fertilizer will only aid foliage and growth and not flowers so I don't fertilize mine.
I wonder what the results would be if the plants were first beefed up by food and then left to flower? Maybe I could then switch to a bloom inducer?
I use 15-30-15, or anything with less Nitrogen, so they don't grow so much foliage, but have bloom enhancer.
I am a novice at Passiforas. I just planted last week 2 Passiflora edulis 'Nancy Garrison.'(sp?) Today I put fish emulsion on them. I was going to wait a month and then try a chemical fertilizer that my son uses at his house and swears by. What do you suggest? Chuck
I've just been using all purpose fertilizer. I think it was something like 15-30-17. I had A LOT of flowers on my foetida alba. The other passionflowers were all babies so all I had was a few flowers anyways.
I think I'm going to use something natural, like fish emulsion and then later in the season use bloom inducing fertilizer.
You just kind of have to see what works in your climate and conditions Chuck.