I purchased a passiflora on ebay in spring of 06". It is labled as passiflora nigredenia (spelling???) I cant seem to find any info about it online. It is a very nice large plant now ,hasnt bloomed for me but i'd love to have info on it.
Does anyone else here grow this passiflora or know anything about it?
dmichael
passiflora
what would you like to know about it? I may know a little and my friend is one of the first people to get his hands on it when it first hit the states. Where are you located?
thanks,
Mark
I live in S.C. and purchased the plant from an ebay seller who ives in GA. It has grown into a very nice,large,healthy plant.
The seller had a bit of info along with pics of the flowers listed with her auction. I copied it all but seem to have misplaced it and I cant recall her ebay user name to try and contact her. I did have her phone number but ,I hate to say i've lost that as well.
I'd like to know where the pant is native to or is it a hybrid and just some general growing info. Whatevetr i'm currently doing the plant seems to like but any info you could supply i'm sure would be of some help.
I guess I also need to get a correct spelling of the name,I apparently am spelling it wrong as I cant believe with all the info available to us on the web that there isnt anything listed about this plant!
Thanks for the speedy response.
david
I searched and found tons of information. Here you are:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPIA,HPIA:2006-13,HPIA:en&q=passiflora+nigradenia
Wow that is a great looking passie.
Kay,
Thanks for the info. Turns out I was spelling it wrong but usually in a wrong spelling it will ask did you mean ????
It does have a beautiful flower and I cant wait to see mine bloom. The leaves are totally unlike any other passiflora that i've ever seen. When I first got it I thought that the seller had pulled a fast one on me but turns out it's the real thing.
I spoke with the lady who sold me this plant and she says that it blooms in clusters as opposed to just single flowers like a lot of passifloras.
Hopefully in the spring i'll be able to use my cloning machine and propogate this plant. I've never tried to root a passiflora so it should be interesting to see if I can do it or not.
david
Keep me in mind if you do clone it - I just KNOW you can!
Man that is 1 cool passiflora, I've never seen anything quite like it. Please keep me in mind if/when you do clone this baby. I'll be doing some cloning myself so maybe we could swing a trade. Food for thought anyhow.
Here is a link I found for it w/ pictures on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/VERY-UNUSUAL-FIND-Passiflora-Nigradenia_W0QQitemZ110056061892QQihZ001QQcategoryZ43548QQcmdZViewItem
Thanks, JD
JD,
your link to ebay just so happens to be the same lady that I bought my plant from. Just as soon as it warms up here a bit i'll try and make some cuttings and get them into the machine for cloning.
I'm very anxious to see this passie bloom myself.
dmichael
I too have this one. I've had it for about two years and have yet to see flowers. This one needs room to romp, so be prepaed to let her rip wherever she wants. I believe she's one of those Passies that has to reach a certain length before she produces flowers. It may be as long as 25 -35 feet before you see any buds. Although I have it outside all year, I've heard something about it being better off in ground - which I can't do, because it would swallow the house, I'm sure.
Right now, mine is in a three gallon pot and it is about 20 feet long. I've wrapped it around a support to try and contain it.
Well it sounds like I better be ordering from this person too.
I'm curious about both of your plants. One of the best benefits of getting a plant in cutting form is that the plant is already "sexually mature". Meaning that it is(or should be) capable of blooming as soon as it's established. I've had many cuttings from many different kinds of passiflora's bloom while I was waiting for enough roots to form before transplanting. These cuttings were blooming and they weren't any more than a foot long single stem.
gordo- If I were you, I'd pinch the very tip of your long vine. That would make it begin to branch out at many different nodes and also give it more places to form buds for blooms. I've never heard of a vine needing to reach any certain length before it was able to bloom. They only need to reach a certain age or stage of maturity to bloom. I'm gonna read up and see if I can find anything to back up what you've heard gordo.
OH BTW. What time of year did you guy's order your vines from this place? I'm asking this to see if it's safe to mail when it's this cold outside. I've never had vines freeze in the mail but I have had them cook when mailing them in the summer months. I'm wanting to order a few from this place to try and get my collection back up to par. It almost makes me ill to pay for cuttings like this when I'm so used to trading them with friends here at dave's. I guess I've gotten incredibly spoiled.
Thanks, JD
I purchased mine probably late spring-early summer of last year.
http://www.georgiavines.com/index.html
This is the link to her store. I just looked at it and it appears that she is temporarily sold out of the quite a few of her passifloras.
dmichael..... I just planted up a bunch from her too. Did you find a good rate of germination? She does have some nice ones.
Bea
Bea,
Mine was an actual vine when I got it . I did purchase seeds from her. She listed this particular passiflora on ebay several times last year and they were very nice well established cuttings that she had started herself.
I bid many times on the ebay plants and always got outbid. I always seem to be at work when any of my ebay auctions end so I contacted her and bought one directly from her rather than going through ebay.
dmichael
lori
Feb 21, 2007
You are talking about Georgiavines.com
Yes that was it alright.
Bea
lori
Feb 22, 2007
Most of her plants are only 4 inches high now, and she is waiting until they are at least 6 inches before she puts them up for sale.
Man I'm too late as usual. They're sold out of almost everything thats rooted. I thought I'd be ordering in time being that it's still Feb...WRONG!
If anyone knows of someone else that has some for sale, please let me know ASAP.
I'm shocked at the prices they're getting for small clones. They're well worth it, don't get me wrong. It just has me seriously thinking about doing the same thing myself. I can get 72 cubes per tray. The math adds up to some serious dough! I'm already doing it for myself so I may as well just do a few more trays while I'm at it and head for Ebay. WOW!
Thanks everyone;)
JD
JD...if you get into the biz...I want a "special rate" for knowing you through this thread...too much to ask? Anyway, good on you for luving passies.
LOLOL shannon.
If/when I do start selling our seeds and cuttings, I'll never charge any of you guy's here at DG. None of this would be possible w/o all of you folks and your help.
Would everyone here please see if you have enough vine on your passies to mail me some fresh cut pieces so I can root them and rebuild my passie collection? I'll happily pay you for your time, effort and S&H costs. I think this will be my only way to rebuild my collection affordably and fairly quickly.
PLEASE take a look and see if you could spare me some of your plants. I'd appreciate it more than you can imagine. It's always so much more rewarding to root plants myself plus I get a cool story behind each and every plant to tell people when they see how beautiful they turn out to be.
Thanks all;)
JD
JD,
I have some small ones just starting so I can't offer cuttings yet...But I'm set to buy a Parritae and it will be bigger so in the near future I can hook you up. I have some seeds of various ones I could spare a few...Let me know if interested in seeds. Either way, let's keep in touch! I want to know how your rebuilding efforts go.
Shannon
Shannon.
Thanks so much! At this point, I'm interested in seeds and cuttings. I'd bet you already have P. Incarnata but if not, I have a bunch of seeds of this passiflora your welcome to. I've had a handfull of friends here at DG offering me some pieces of vines at a later date, hopefully this will pan out soon.
I can't wait to see if any othe the vines I left in the ground over winter survive this unusually cold season we had. I've had Constance Elliot and P. Caerulea come back far the last few years, hopefully they will again. It takes so long for these vines to break the ground when they do finally come back. If I recall correctly, they didn't show up until late June and stayed very small until late summer. Most all of the passiflora's I've tried growing in the ground rather than in pots hardly ever bloom for some odd reason. P. Incarnata and P. Belotti are the only exceptions for some really wierd reason. I'm thinking many of these guys do better if they are semi rootbound maybe or could it be the ground temps are cooler than the soil im pots. Just when I think I have these guys all dialed in and figured out, they throw me another curve ball.
I just hope I can get a few of my favs replaced and perhaps a few new ones. I really want some red Passiflora's. I've had a couple in the past that were never in good shape but I bought them anyway thinking I could revive them. I don't know what I did wrong but I killed them all. I wished they all would behave more like my P. Incarnata's. I don't think I could ever get rid of them if I wanted to at this point. They've taken over huge areas in the yard now and just spread more and more every year. I let them take over the chainlink fence as they make the greatest natural air fresheners known to man imo. When they're blooming heavily and we get a nice breeze, they fill the yard with such a lovely fragrance. I get more comments on that.
I decided to experiment with a couple other passiflora's by leaving them in the ground over winter.I planted 1 belotti and 1 other. I hope I mulched them heavily enough, we'll soon see.
Anyhow, please let me know if your interested in a trade or what I need to send you to get ahold of your cuts/seeds. Thanks so much for your generosity, your too kind.
JD
Sending a DG mail shortly...
Look what I have blooming!!!! A little over a week ago I noticed that it had buds on it and i've been patiently waiting for them to open and the first one did today.
The flower is thick and has a kind of waxy texture to it. It's also highly perfumed but I cant describe the fragreance.
Sorry the pic is not the best.
passiflora nigradenia
Very nice. Congratulations!
Erick