JuniPerez

sunfish

I tried serching for this a couple of weeks ago. Every site had a different answer.I know it's not a matter of having male and female flowers on the same plant,there all complete flowers.What matters is if it's self fertile.Some Passion Vines need an other unrelated vine for cross pollination.

BillynJennifer

If a vine shares a common root, but grows as an individual vine, will the vines be related? The Incarnata that I have along our back fence, seems to mostly share a common root and it produces viable fruit.

sunfish

I just serched again to find out if Incarnata is self fertile. It looks like it isn't. If you have other plants in your area they may be getting cross pollinated by bees.I have some passion vines that I have to pollinate with a different variety to get fruit.

BillynJennifer

It is a really good possibility, then, that bees are probably visiting other vines and then stopping by mine. They're doing a good job.

sunfish

There are two passiflora Ruby Glow in my neighbor ,and I have two I started from cuttings.I have cross pollinated all four plants with every passiflora I have.Still unable to get fruit.But every year I'll find a few fruit on each plant.Some how they are getting pollinated by bees I guess and from what other passion vine ,I don't know.I can't find any information on which passion vine will cross pollinate Ruby Glow.

BillynJennifer

With Incarnata being such a hardy plant, could I cross that with something more tropical with an end result of seeds that will form a passion vine with the hardiness of Incarnata but the colors of the tropical plant?

sunfish

It's already been done.You can also graft Passiflora.

Passiflora 'Incense'

BillynJennifer

I've never tried grafting. Is that as tough to do as it sounds? I would definitley like to try my hand at something like that.

sunfish

I've never tried on Passiflora,though I've bee meaning to for years.I've grafted stone fruit,not that difficult ,just do it.

sunfish

Two of these guys working the flowers

sunfish

Coral Glow

sunfish

Foetida

Yug

No bloom photos today, but these are my neighbor's Passiflora edulis vines. She planted them about 7 months ago, and they have been growing like weeds. I've seen 3 blooms so I know it is the P. edulis which seems very common around here. The fruit is still bright green, but I think it will be the yellow (var flavicarpa?) when mature. I had no idea these grew so fast.

The fence they are on is 20', and they are reaching for more room.


View from other side.

sunfish

BillynJennifer

Did you juice up the colors in this, or is this the actual color? That's the prettiest purple that I've ever saw.

sunfish

Actual color.This Passion vine is veyr easy to grow and comes in many colors

passiflora foetida - Google Search

sunfish

This another foetida flower different plant,slight color difference

sunfish

Another Foetida from last year

BillynJennifer

When you get seeds from your Foetida, I would really like to buy some from you. Since it is more tropical than our climate allows, I guess I would bring it in during the winter.