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There are two main varieties of passionfruit, Passiflora edulis is the purple one, and Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa is the golden passionfruit, also known as tropical passionfruit. All types are great plants and relatively easy to grow. There are sometimes a few problems to be encountered though. The main concerns as you have mentioned, revolve around the lack of fruit, but also when to prune it and how to feed it. Flowers not turning into fruit could be caused by a few different factors. It could be due to a shortage of pollinators or even insufficient water. Too much shade can also slow ripening so make sure your plant is well pruned and not crowding itself out from the sunlight. Remove some of the tangled stems so that the flowers when they appear are better exposed to the light. Pollination is essential for fruit production on passionfruit vines. A lack of pollinators could indicate that there aren’t many bees in your area. Rainy and overcast conditions would further discourage bees and other pollinators from venturing out to pollinate your crop. If there are no bees around that would explain why you have had flowers but no fruit. Next time the vine is flowering look out for bees, if there aren’t any then maybe you should try to hand pollinate. To hand pollinate look inside the flower. The sticky elongated bump in the middle is the stigma, the female part of the flower whilst the anthers, the male parts which hold the pollen, are around it (please refer to photo diagram if confused). By late morning when the pollen is dry take a small dusting brush and rub the flower to pick up pollen from the anthers and then transfer this onto the stigmas of other flowers. Do this when the pollen is bright yellow and fresh and continue every day or two as long as you see flowers. You need to pretend to be the bee, and do what bees do. They go from flower to flower, they just don’t pollinate one and then fly away, they do them all. This way the pollen becomes mixed and produces more successful pollination. Another way is to clip off a flower and rub it onto the other ones. Easier still you can simply go from flower to flower, and by using your finger you can pick up pollen and wipe it off onto other flowers at the same time. Hand pollination may be
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Passion With No Fruits
‘I was hoping that I could get some growing advice on my passionfruit vine. It is growing quite vigorously at the moment, I had so many flowers on the vine but I have not yet found any fruit this year. I noticed sometimes the flowers fall off, and the ones that don’t simply don’t produce fruit. I have been using chicken manure as fertiliser, is this ok? It looks to be a very healthy vine other than the flowering problem. Any advice on how to remedy this would be much appreciated. Thank you, June’
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the easiest way to ensure fruit production on a passion fruit vine growing in the home garden. Additional to this please bear in mind that lack of water will also adversely affect fruit production so make sure that it is well watered at the flowering stage. In fact, it needs a very regular water supply at all times. However, passionfruit will not under any circumstances tolerate waterlogged soil. So make sure your garden beds have good drainage! If you are using chicken manure in high quantities this would definitely cause your flowers to drop. The vine is allocating too much energy into the production of foliage (leaves) to the detriment of fruit and flowers. Pruning the vine back may help. Chicken manure is a great fertiliser to use when you require a burst of vegetative growth of foliage and plant stems, usually after fruiting and pruning, but not at times when the plant is actually flowering or fruiting. If the vine is dropping flowers, I would stop using the chicken manure and change to one formulated for fruit and flower production. An oversupply of nitrogen is likely to be promoting an abundance of leaves (which your vine clearly has) and vigorous growth over flower production. If you go to the garden centre look at the labels on all the fertilisers and find the ‘NPK’ ratio which is usually displayed in a prominent place on the front of the packaging. The NPK translates to the chemical symbols for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. For fruit and flowers you should look for a much lower N value and higher for the other two. Better still just make sure it has ‘fruiting/flowering’ on the label.
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For timings of feeding, it is always better to feed diluted concentrations more regularly than strong ones less frequently. Another tip, make sure that you cut it back each year as soon as the flowering/ fruiting stage has finished, because it will only produce fruits on new season growth. I would trim mine back anywhere ranging from 30-50%, so that you may have an abundance of fruit the following year. Prune back everything that is dead or weak, trim healthy branches by about a half or a third, and even fully remove some. You need to make sure that some air can circulate through the foliage, and also stimulate vigorous new growth. Have a great day and let me know how it goes! Dr. Kris Garden Doctor Contact: dr.kris@ymail.com Copyright © 2013 Dr. Kris You can read all past articles of Garden Doctor at www.BaliAdvertiser.biz C/Ho/G-3 Oct. 12