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[Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com>]

There are at least three or four species and hybrids of passionfruit that 
will grow in the mainland USA.  Maypop is the only native one (to the east 
coast).  My understanding is that Maypop need two genetic individuals to get 
pollination.  I have one that flowers every year and never produces fruit, 
but I've seen some in Eugene, Oregon neigborhoods that are loaded.  There are 
instructions for hand-pollinating maypop that may work.  Use a flower from 
the previous day to pollinate a freshly-opened flower.
 
As for pruning, maypop die back every year.  Other passionfruit can have 
older vines cut off without a problem.  They are very vigorous and will 
quickly grow back.  Just don't do anything to extreme.  I've seen a beautiful 
and productive banana passionfruit killed by idiots that cut off all the 
vines back to the main trunk, just to maintain an old redwood deck.
 
Good luck,
 
Rain



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Where are you located?

It sound like your neighbors are having success with growing passion fruit.
Is yours getting plenty of sun and water?

My passion fruit is still blooming and setting fruit and has been doing so
since spring. It is loaded with fruit and gets plenty of greywater from me
showering every morning near it. I am located in Santa Cruz CA 2 blocks from
the Ocean, so the weather is moderate here most of the year.

My Beauty Plum flowered again last month and set fruit. Knowing that cold
weather is on its way, I picked off all the blooms and tiny fruit so the
plant could use the energy elsewhere.

Golden

Golden Love
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Subject: Re: [permaculture] pruning Passion Fruit (passiflora edulis)


 This year the plant I am taking care of has made quite a lot of flowers
(it's in its second year now) but just a couple have gone to fruit, most of
the other have fallen.
On thing that struck me, is that my passion fruit has had its flowers in
spring time, but another one that I saw the other day (we are in autumn now
over here) just a few block from where my plant is, was in full bloom, how
come? How is it possible that the same kind of plant (passion fruit in this
case) has 2 different flowering events in different seasons? Is this normal
with passion fruit plants?

As for the pruning, thing is that the plant is becoming really huge and the
space there is at a premium...hum perhaps I shouldn't use this plant
there....(anyway)
Cheers


 All the best
Antonio




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I just weave any new grown in with the existing branches, never have done
any hard pruning and we have had huge production. The plant is over 3 years
old and is slowly encircling my garden (on fences and over my Avocado tree)
with delicious fruit. It gives us a lot of privacy and wonderful flowers and
fruit to me and my neighbors (the vine hangs over into their gardens). One
neighbor who works at Safeway says that the fruit he now picks from the vine
cost $2.99 each at the store.

Golden Love
Love's Gardens
"Your neighborhood solar-powered gardener"  (TM)
California Licensed Contractor C27 363672
127 National St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-6516
Phone  (831) 471-9100
Fax  ( 831) 471-9200
goldenlove@cruzio.com
www.lovesgardens.com

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Subject: [permaculture] pruning Passion Fruit (passiflora edulis)

Hi
has anybody any tips for pruning passion fruit?
Also, do they need hand pollination in order fruit abundantly?
Cheers
Antonio
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