i recently bought a passion fruit vine thinking it was a fig shrub
, anyway when I seen my error I decided to give it a go in the tunnel apparently it can handle 10’C to 35’C , I think a few leaves got a bit of frost bite.
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Anybody any experience with growing passion fruit ?
I've grown a passion flower which was a very sprawling, scrambling plant - it wasn't an edible passion fruit but I imagine the growth habit is much the same.
Back in the late 90s, my Mum managed to get one to not only grow well and flower but also to fruit. She grew it in a container against a southish-facing wall next to her front door. I don't think she ever expected it to do so well. I think it was grown from seeds taken from a random supermarket fruit - possibly the first one she ever bought/tried.
Passionfruit are definitely on my future garden list. The flowers are very pretty, even if you don't get fruit.
I grew one from the seed of a passion fruit I bought at the supermarket. I planted it in a large tub and grew the vine up against a South facing shed wall. It didn't flower but was quite a pretty vine reaching 8 foot tall.
Even though I tried to insulate it for the winter, the frost got it.
I want to give one a try at some point. Only for the flowers.
I have a non-edible one (I assume - it was a gifted cutting) growing on a wooden tripod - it is in heavy clay, gets very wet feet in the winter and baked in the summer, is quite exposed on a south facing and survived minus 7 this winter.