[van connick]

hi guys

need a little advice here....

3 years ago i managed to grow 25 passion flowers from seed, i kept 6 and gave the others to family and friends.

all the ones i have planted here have done really well, with beautiful flowers and so many of them too, but none of them have fruits....not a single one. all the flowers just die off and there is nothing there. i was hoping to get fruits on them, because they are very attrative, plus i was going to dry them to grow some more plants.

any ideas why there are not producing them?

do you have to graph the mother plants? could that be the prob?

[gobs]

Hi, Van,

There are so many varieties, there might be several reasons why yours don't fruit. They flower late in the season on this climate to set good fruit.

You might be better of with cuttings. Take them nowish.

[van connick]

doh....lol...i have never thought about taking cuttings off them.....

spose it would be a bit like taking cuttings from any climber?

[gobs]

Yope, very simple.

[iannp]

it is possible you can help produce fruit by making the female and male parts of the flower contact,  i did this once to a passion flower but i dont know which variety!  oh and it seemed to work

[Tinbasher]

hi guys

need a little advice here....

3 years ago i managed to grow 25 passion flowers from seed, i kept 6 and gave the others to family and friends.

all the ones i have planted here have done really well, with beautiful flowers and so many of them too, but none of them have fruits....not a single one. all the flowers just die off and there is nothing there. i was hoping to get fruits on them, because they are very attrative, plus i was going to dry them to grow some more plants.

any ideas why there are not producing them?

My neighbour always has a passion flower growing, though I think she's hacked a couple down over the years and put in a new plant.  Beautiful flowers that have appeared for years.  I never thought about fruit.  Until last year.  Quite a good few were produced.  The amount of sun and the high temperatures I would have thought.  It stood at mid thirties Celsius for a couple of weeks at least and was hot for many weeks, as the plant was coming into flower.  This year of course, not a bean, though the flowers are still on the plant.