OK ,Tim's id of my passiflora makes it an incarnata.So - can I cut it back and root the cuttings?Or is it one of the hard ones to root?Where do I cut it?Will I kill it? It's 7 foot tall right now with a ton of buds.Will it stop blooming?It has to come in the house in a few weeks and I'm not sure if I should cut it or let it grow back down the trellis and then go back up or snip it.Please help! 'cc'
Passiflora cuttings?
cc,
Please check my reply in the ID forum regarding to rooting cuttings.
Hi crested chik
Re incarnata
Some Passiflora become hollow a certain distance back from the growing tip. Hollow sections are notoriously hard to root & prone to rot so avoid them if you can. P. incarnata is a good example of one that becomes hollow very quickly....but is very easy to root instead simply by gently pulling out & planting a fresh stem, appearing usually in May, which should come out with a few inches of root. See for more info
http://www.passionflow.co.uk/cuts.htm
Hope this of help
Best wishes
Myles
Myles is right re to P. incarnata. The tip is too tender to root, and mature vine is hollow. You will have better results if you were to root suckers, they rooted for me in about two weeks.
I don't have any suckers.Is that normal??
CC
Sure, it is possilbe not to have suckers, especially if it is a small vine or newly transplanted. Most often the suckers will appear away from the main plant.
I planted one in a one gl. container into the ground last fall, now I have suckers coming up 1-5' away, only a few are right where the vine itself.
going to stick this right here to get the two experts looking:) Hope you don't mind Karyn.
I have a P. Jeanette and I want to take cuttings. which is the best way with her? thanks in advance
tiG,
I would treat her like most other Passiflora's. Take a cutting with 2-3 nodes, strip the bottom leaf off. Take note on the vine, is it hollow or not. If it is then you can take a cutting from a more mature part, once again check on the vine. Sometime you can take one closer to the tip, the only problem with that it may rot if it is too tender.
Why not try to layer it.
thanks Tim!!!!
Crestedchik, P. incarnata is very hardy---it should live outdoors in Zone 5, and when in thr ground it will produce plenty of suckers/runners each spring. You can also easily open-sow the seeds---has yours make any fruit? If not, I can send you plenty of them. They'll be ripe in a week or two.
Nope There has been no fruit,I even tried hand polinating it ,not quite sure if I was doing it right ,but the whole thing falls off and ,NO fruit.I'm going to move it into the house this week.I also have 2 pots with maypops growing that I think I'm going to put the smaller one in the ground and see if it winters over.I've never gotten a bloom off them so I won't really miss it if it dosent make it,plus I still have the larger pot.The one that is blooming I just love so unless I figure out how to root it or get some seed from it ,I won't take a chance on wintering it out side.I was sent some fruit to try to grow and I lost track of the container.One container had PS and the other was crepe mytle,one germinated .I posted it but no one could tell me if it they were the ps or not .Now that they are bigger I'm going to post a new picture to see if anyone can tell
I got fruit!!!I'm so excited!!How long till they're ripe?
cc,
About 3 months, I found 3 fruit on the ground last week, these were pollinated in mid July.
OK,the fruit is getting big,its green,and I have no clue how to tell its ripe?
cc
The fruit of P. incarnata will change to a pale yellow when it's ready.
Cool,thanks Tim