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Thanks Sue! I think they look like alien flowers with all their wild curly ques!

Tony which is that delicate little white one? You have the most incredible collection of passion fruit! Have you eaten all of them? Which tastes the best to you?

~JaNan

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I am not sure which variety the White one is.I planted 40 or so different varieties and had given up on growing Passiflora last summer because of spidermites,in the greenhouse So I took what I had and started planting them all outdoors thinking they wouldn't survive. Most all made it and once established are pretty hardy. I have twelve different one's flowering right now and another six varieties that haven't flowered yet.
As far as the best tasting Frederick's.

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Here it is

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How long for Frederick's flowers to open. I'm getting lots of little buds and keep looking for them to get bigger and open, but I'm impatient. I've only had it in the ground for 2-3 weeks but it's grow maybe 16 inches or so.

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I am guessing from first seeing the SEPALS till they open about two weeks. Frederick's opens around 11am. They are self fertile put it dosen't hurt to go ahead and hand pollinate.

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I don't think I even have buds yet, just sepals. I guess I'll know the stages of flowering better once I have my first flower.

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Pete's not posting photos for me to critique so I'll jump on yours and point out you've really blown your highlights, Tony!!! :ha:

I think I now have a dozen or so buds on my Frederick. I hope they open before we go to Nicaragua in mid-August.

My P. ligularis is still hanging in there despite some pretty hot temperatures over the past couple of weeks. Still pretty small, though.

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I shouldn't of used the flash.

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Passiflora Arida fruit

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Tony are these some sort of passion vine? They are crawlers and don't have the curly que things on them. They look different as they age and I don't want to pull them out if they are. Thanks!







~JaNan

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don't think there Passiflora. Do you have an update on your Date seedlngs?

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Maybe it is poison oak. I'd better google that before I pull them up bare handed. I have some pictures I took either this morning or yesterday of my "mystery Iraq seed date trees"! HA! HA! I will upload them so you can look at them. ~J

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Off topic, sorry, but I had missed your post about date seedlings. I had heard of someone in Texas (back from Iraq now) who had written about Sadam's Majool (sp?). Is this what you've got started?

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I've got fruit! :) OK I know it is going to change color when it ripens. Then what? How do you prepare it, save seeds (dry them or what), make jam or eat fresh? (yes, I KNOW I need more than one for jam, wise guys) Do you eat the seeds also? When I have grown these in the past the fruit is full of air and I didn't have much of anything. Is there a way to store them until the other fruit ripens too?



~JaNan

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I tape the blades on the blender,to keep the seed from getting chopped up. Put some water in with the fruit and blend. Strain out the seed and save for planting. The juice can be frozen in ice cube trays . You can eat the seed.

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Yes, eat the seeds and all or add everything to juice, etc. I tried to find a YT vid of a guy I know who was eating some of Tony's fruits last year but looks like he deleted the thread. He and his boy were pigging out on them. Cut them in half and scoop out with a spoon.

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Janan, those 2 bottom pics look like grape vine.

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I agree with Patty, but thought it might also be something that looks similar.

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P.MOLLISSIMA FRUIT


P.CAPSULARIS FRUIT

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My Frederick had it's first flower open today. I got this plant from Tony last year and it had been in a pot until I planted it in the ground with my unusual trellis on 26 days ago and it's growing vigorously! :D

When planted July 2, 2010

Today, July 28, 2010

First flower on July 28, 2010

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Did it open around 11am ?

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Picked up two new passiflora's,don't remember the varieties,and twenty packets of seeds

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Tony, I've been out in the fields irrigating alfalfa most of the days lately and have no idea when it opened. I think I noticed it around noon or maybe later. Two more opened today but I didn't see them until around 3pm. I think I have 7 more buds that should open soon and I'll try to look more often if I'm around.

Do they always just open for one day?

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If it's overcast they will stay open longer,like the Dragon fruit flowers.

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My flowers only last one day, Harvey (P. incarnata).

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Thanks, Howard. I guess that's how these will do also. I had two more open today (don't know what time as I was at m other farm an hour away).

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I finally have a Frederick sprouting Tony! WooHoo! :woohoonaner:



~JaNan

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Tony, looks like the "clock" on my Fredericks is the same as yours. As of 10:40am this morning, no flowers were open. Checked again at 11:10am and two flowers had opened. I won't be around tomorrow to check (or Portuguese club founded in 1899 is having its annual Holy Ghost Festa tomorrow).

How soon will I likely know if they pollinated? I only assisted in the pollination of one flower thus far.

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There should be a fruit forming in a few days.

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My passion vine has flowered! But I wasnt home to see it :( I hope I will see it flower again. Just wanted to update on my first passion vine! Yours all look like they are doing great!!

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You could almost set you watch by them. Try watching one open ,when you get time,but don't blink or you will miss it.

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Mollissima



Vitifolia


Arida


Capsularis

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I didn't think I had any buds left on my Fredericks but I noticed at 10:52 this morning that two more flowers were opened up. I think that's 12 flowers in the past six days. There's lots of new growth and the plant has reached above the top of the trellis now.

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Turns out this plant is Passiflora Maliformis not Lauriflia

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Are the buds that opened before staying green or turning yellow ? Any fruit set yet ?

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The last one above is gorgeous, Tony. Any idea which one it is?

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The buds are still green, though maybe a little pale. I don't know if fruit has set or not. I peeked into the flowers just now and noticed the ovary on a couple from a few days ago was yellow and the flower dropped off but some of the earlier ones are still green and holding firm.

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This one I am sure of.
PASSIFLORA BELLOTTI - Google Search

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Man, after looking at the site for Grassy Knoll Exotic Plants, I want a hundred different passiflora! Of course, hardly any are hardy here, but I'll figure out a way around that. Grassy Knoll Exotic Plants

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Coral Glow

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P.capsularis Fruit

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Rats, all of my Frederick flower buds fell off, guess they didn't get pollinated. :(

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I just went to a pasture and dug up a few Maypops, we\'ll see how they do and if I can control them....

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