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Saw my first fruit this season on my P. incarnata. It was on the ground, so I brought in inside and cut it open. Jelly covered seeds in a hollow shell of a fruit. The jelly tasted and smelled nice, but Is that it? Very disappointed.

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Some have more than others,but that's all you get is jelly and seed

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I hope that I will taste them soon too. Here are the first buds on my P. Incarnata


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Good luck, Ante. you'll love the flower.

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Im pretty excited to have a bloom on my passion vine!! This pic was taken about a week ago. Im really kind of new to passion vines so I have no ID to it. If someone could help me with ID'ing it, I would really appreciate it! All I know is that it was at a local nursery for 3 dollars which was an amazing price (I cant even get some dirt that cheap!). And if its a cold tolerant type (I know of 2), then what do you suggest for the winter? Its in a pot and its kind of late to put it in the ground so do you think it would do okay indoors and keep it growing, or should I put it in the garage (rarely below freezing, but it gets pretty cold) and let it go dormant in there.
Well anyway, heres the pic!!!

Thanks in advance and Im looking forward to growing lots of other passion vines next year so hopefully I will have more bloom pics to share soon!!

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That is Passiflora Cerulea

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Thanks Tony! I had a feeling it was Passiflora Cerulea and although I would have liked something a little more exotic, at least it can survive my winters which is a huge plus!

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Passiflora Foetida bud

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Here's the flower

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FINALLY!
:woohoonaner:





:nanadrink:

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Beautiful, Ante! Congratulations!

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BTW, has anyone else noticed this? The large black and yellow bumblebees love the passion flowers. It even appears that they crawl in amongst the pollen and sleep, and I have had difficulty awakening them by shaking the vine. As if they were drugged!

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I think they are drugged

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Frederick's

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That site is of dubious quality. The two listed varieties of Passiflora are different species and likely different composition of substances.

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I grew the Passiflora Cerulea from seed many years ago and planted it in the ground next to my former home (a tall stone townhouse). It would come back vigorously every year, climbing a raised basement and two stories and then sprawl all over the roof deck. While the foliage was thick and healthy and its stems were as thick as those of a grape vine, it produced very few blossoms. Here in my new home, I grow it in a large pot next to an arbor and this year in addition to many dozens of flowers it made three fruits but after they turned yellow and fell to the ground I found them to be hollow and when opened they looked like an orange peel with white fiber, but no juice or seeds. So I have just had to be happy with my sucess in getting the fancier varieties to bloom. My favorite this year has definitely been "Monika Fisher " for it's abundance of larger beautifully colored blooms. In my opinion "Monika" has beatened both "Marian" (a new, seed grown/selected variety I got last year from a hybridizer on ebay), and even the very frilly "Incense" with its amazing fragrance.

"Incense" with "Monika":



"Monika" with "Marian"



Actually I am very happy to have had so many beautiful passion vine flowers this year in tropical Pittsburgh PA! lol Now if that 5' South American Red passion vine would just flower before frost in the next five or six weeks, all my passion plants varieites will have produced blossoms this year!

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Howard after reading Tony's referenced article about the many medicinal/pharmecutical uses of the passion plant/fruit, it's no wonder your bees drift off to lala land after visiting your passion flowers! Now if only the grasshoppers in my yard went to sleep before they consumed portions of my Monika's flowers!

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Passiflora Capsularis fruit

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Are they edible?

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I looked it up and found this. The flesh is inedible

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Passiflora Arida edible fruit



Good size Frederick's fruit

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Flower and seed pod

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so much excitement .. hope ... and promise! ..so very hollow and empty! lol

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Passiflora Vitifolia fruit

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Looks like it's been crossed with a watermelon! lol

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How long it needs from flower till fruit?

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I never timed it but at least one month till the fruit is ripe. From flower till fruit forms that happens right away,you can tell in a few days.

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Yeap, I did the pollination experiments few days ago and voila:
One of four flowers looks like this now:



:woohoonaner:
First two are lost and Im still awaiting on 4th:lurk:
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Ruby Glow bud

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:woohoonaner:

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Can you feel any weight to the fruit ? Some will end up hollow.

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O cmmon dont tell me that!:ha:
My only fruit and it might be hollow!!
:nanadrink:

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Are you still getting buds/flowers ?

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No. It had 4 buds and only one developed a fruit. And it is a bit light in my opinion :(

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a snail snacking on my "sweet sunrise" nectar

cant blame him, the fruit dont last long

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:woohoonaner:

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Still don't know the pollinator for Ruby Glow


Fruit

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My Frederick only has one fruit on it so far but I'm hoping for more. I had 5 flowers open on Friday, 20 on Saturday, and 7 today. I tried to help pollinate with a Q-tip yesterday and today.