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Posted by karen
Passionfruit vines October 21, 2004 04:00AM |
I have an approx 2 year old passion fruit vine which is producing so many flowers/buds at the moment. A couple have produced fruit, that has ripened, but when I opened them there was very little pulp inside 1- 1/2 tsp, and it wasn`t very sweet. Is it too early in the season for the vine to be fruiting and that is the problem with the actual fruit or should I have been feeding it something special. I have been digging in banana skins, as I have heard they like the extra potassium.
Re: Passionfruit vines October 21, 2004 04:23AM |
be careful when you dig in anything around the roots, I know when Iknock some plants around inthis way, they respond by flowering (keeping the species alive sort of thing)...mine haven't even got buds of flowers yet? - where are you karen - up north?
I just throw bananas at the vine and where they fall, there they stay.
I just throw bananas at the vine and where they fall, there they stay.
Re: Passionfruit vines October 21, 2004 04:29AM |
Re: Passionfruit vines October 21, 2004 04:54AM |
Karen I have a passionfruit vine. Don't ask me how old it is. It seems that it has been there for ever. Which is unusual. They don't have a long life. I just give it some blood and bone. I really don't coddle it, in fact quite the opposite. Give it a drink if it looks dry through the summer.Yes it is too early for it to be fruiting now.
Raewyn G
Re: Passionfruit vines October 21, 2004 11:01AM |
Karen, is this a black passionfruit vine you have. Hope it's not the banana variety as they are now classed as a noxious weed.
My man pruned my passionfruit vine and has killed the poor thing, so will need to replace it, along with my treasured daphne bush that went in the skip bin, because it wasn't a perfectly shaped bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Mum was a great gardener, very green fingered but quite neglectful. She never fussed with her plants and she could get anything to grow. A couple of years before she died she had the best ever crop of black passionfuit......275! Consequently the vine passed away after that enormous crop and I bought her a new one. We always had one growing at home, in the worst part of the garden. Poor unfertilised soil, and dusty dry, but she would religiously throw the contents of the cold tea pot around it, and in those days Mum drank lots of tea.
Thanks for rekindling the special memories of my Mum.
Good luck for a long and successful growing season Karen.
Regards,
Raewyn
My man pruned my passionfruit vine and has killed the poor thing, so will need to replace it, along with my treasured daphne bush that went in the skip bin, because it wasn't a perfectly shaped bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Mum was a great gardener, very green fingered but quite neglectful. She never fussed with her plants and she could get anything to grow. A couple of years before she died she had the best ever crop of black passionfuit......275! Consequently the vine passed away after that enormous crop and I bought her a new one. We always had one growing at home, in the worst part of the garden. Poor unfertilised soil, and dusty dry, but she would religiously throw the contents of the cold tea pot around it, and in those days Mum drank lots of tea.
Thanks for rekindling the special memories of my Mum.
Good luck for a long and successful growing season Karen.
Regards,
Raewyn
Re: Passionfruit vines October 21, 2004 09:31PM |
Re: Passionfruit vines October 21, 2004 10:08PM |
maybe mine is on the way out (after only one successful season!) I've been pulling off (by hand) all the old dry tendrils as that is where the dreaded passionvine hopper lay their eggs - maybe I went a bit overboard and have killed the vine (a self-seeded one in a nother garden has lovely shiney new leaves on it!), I am in Auckland also and should be more advanced in the season than I am maybe?
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