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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 28, 2010 6:51:51 GMT -5
I have a couple of young passionflower plants growing indoors in a large pot that I started from seed last year. They were slow to grow in last summers cool and damp weather. But this year, they are more than making up for it by reaching to the sun!
Problem is, they are growing through the lace in my priscilla curtains. Monday, while on the phone with Flowerpower, I looked up to see them growing between the layers to touch the ceiling.
Am I going to hurt these plants by pruning them? Best way to do so would be where? At the base of the plant or just where I actually need to set them free from the draperies?
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Post by trixtrax on Apr 28, 2010 18:47:40 GMT -5
If you pruned part of the vine back, could it then be weaved out of the curtains? I would be leary of cutting it down to its base at this stage. Though maybe it will be fine?? Pruning the tips off will probably only encourage more root growth from those rambunctious youngsters which won't be bad as long as they don't go rootbound which I think passionflower can easily in a pot - given enough time. Is this P. incarnata?
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 28, 2010 20:57:39 GMT -5
yes, it's p. incarnata.
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Post by trixtrax on Apr 29, 2010 3:20:43 GMT -5
Ok, I'd stay go ahead and try. I imagine even if you did cut them at the base, they would still regen, but maybe you'd lose some. Maybe not. I am trying to start some passionflower (P. incarnata) from seed, but nothing yet, still have to wait. But, from root divisions, I have found the above works. Good Luck!
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Post by trixtrax on Apr 29, 2010 3:20:58 GMT -5
Would like to hear any results.
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Post by flowerpower on Apr 29, 2010 6:19:02 GMT -5
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 29, 2010 7:20:48 GMT -5
I want to repot it as well, so I'll just give it a try. What's the worst that can happen? I'll kill it...
Trix, good luck with the germination. I tried in 2006 from seed I found at a property for sale in Missouri. I gave some to a friend to try. Neither of us had any luck whatsoever. So I bought a package of seed from Richter's. $5.00 a pkg..Ouchie! They recommend that they are used while the seed is still very fresh. I got 5 plants out of a package...these are them..At least I know it can be done, even in a drafty 80 year old house.
Success...if it all goes downhill from here, well sobeit.
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Post by wildseed57 on May 9, 2010 22:06:58 GMT -5
I have a three year old purple passion fruit vine that i have in a five galon bucket actually I have two vines, they are about 6ft. tall and quite ragged from the storms we have had. Mine needs to be cut back, but like you I don't want to gut it back to far. I really like them, but they have not bloomed or given me anything but a bad back movng it around. I'm hoping it and my Tamarillo tree will fruit this year, I suspect that I need to add something to the soil to get it to bloom and set fruit, I have added some lime and bonemeal to the soil so I hope that works, I'm getting a bit tired trying to find a place for it every winter.
George
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Post by bobinthebul on Jun 2, 2010 5:19:13 GMT -5
Passionflower seeds are notoriously erratic in germination. You plant a lot, you might bet 2 in the first 2 weeks, then nothing for a month, the 1 more, then 3 more 2 months later... I remember having some germinate almost a year later. So, patience...and don't chuck them out too quickly! I have also heard that if you retain the arils on the seed it sometimes speeds germination (perhaps something in it, or produced as it decays, breaks down some germination inhibitor?) It could be that going through an animal's digestive tract renders them more ready to germinate. But I'll stop short at trying to replicate that myself.  |
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