Passion Fruit
 

I've been getting tons of flowers from my Passiflora Edulis this spring, but not one fruit! The flowers last for a few days, fold back up, and dry up, and no fruit.

Does anyone else get this low yield problem with their passionflower? Any advice would be great.

Re: Passion Fruit
 

There are several reasons for vines flowering but not setting fruit.

* Poor pollination. This is the main cause and can be due to bees not working the flowers (for example during heavy rain); temperatures being too low or too high for pollination (optimum temperatures for pollen germination are between 20°C and 35°C); or rain directly reducing the viability of the pollen (moisture causes the pollen grains to split).
* Boron deficiency.
* Extended periods of overcast weather. This may cause flower drop regardless of pollination problems.

Re: Passion Fruit
 

Thanks sunfish.

The weather has been ideal throughout the flowering, and it has been sunny and bone dry. There has not been any rain for a month. I'm not sure about the Boron deficiency, but the plant looks healthy.

Pollination is probably the problem. There haven't been any bees on my passion flower ( At least I haven't seen any). Will hand pollination work, or does there have to be a second passion vine?

Re: Passion Fruit
 

It says they are self fertile so try hand pollinating.

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