Passion Fruit queries?

[Snadger]

I sowed some passion fruit seeds this morning from a shop bought Passion fruit. I presume this would have been Pasiflora Edulis and hopefully its not an F1 which could throw up anything.
Is passiflora Edulis an open pollinated variety, coming true from seed?

From what I've read they grow a bit like a grape vine? Am I likely to get flowers and fruit in the first year? Will i get a similar amount of growth to a grapevine in the first year?

I suppose I could Google the answers but I'm sure their will be someone on here who could enlighten me!

[veggiechicken]

I have some passiflora edulis seeds from Pennard Plants.
Its a non-hardy perennial vine. Self clinging, climbing plant grows to 3m each year but dies back in winter. Very fragrant flowers from May - Oct.

I'd better sow them instead of staring at the packet

[Snadger]

I have some passiflora edulis seeds from Pennard Plants.
Its a non-hardy perennial vine. Self clinging, climbing plant grows to 3m each year but dies back in winter. Very fragrant flowers from May - Oct.

I'd better sow them instead of staring at the packet

Sounds similar to a grape vine. I wonder if they build up a cane structure similar to vine, or just die back to ground level each year?

[veggiechicken]

Dies back to root level.
Can be grown in GH for earlier fruiting or well protected outside.

[Snadger]

Dies back to root level.
Can be grown in GH for earlier fruiting or well protected outside.

I remember the Maths teacher who also taught gardening at school growing a Paasion Flower against the back wall of a lean to greenhouse. Don't know whether it was edulis or not but it had plenty of flowers!

In retrospect, he taught gardening by using maths repettion principals. He sowed a bed full of differeht annuals, half hardy annuals and such like and made us repeat the names along the row from memory. It worked, as I can still remember 50 years later what were in those rows of annuals in the right order!
Think I'm joking?.............Larkspur,Cosmos,Lavatera,Cornflower,Calendula,Eschaltsia,Love Lies Bleeding etc etc etc

[Muddy_Boots]

I had a Passion Flower in the back garden for a few years, then one year we had a warm spell in spring then it turned cold like this year and the plant just died. Lost a friend as I'd grown that plant from seed, been looking for seeds this year and none of the places I've been in have stocked it.

Anyone know who stocks Passion Flower seeds?

[Snadger]

I had a Passion Flower in the back garden for a few years, then one year we had a warm spell in spring then it turned cold like this year and the plant just died. Lost a friend as I'd grown that plant from seed, been looking for seeds this year and none of the places I've been in have stocked it.

Anyone know who stocks Passion Flower seeds?

Noticed they had PF plants in B&M's. Not the edible version though!

[BUFFS]

I have some passiflora edulis seeds from Pennard Plants.
Its a non-hardy perennial vine. Self clinging, climbing plant grows to 3m each year but dies back in winter. Very fragrant flowers from May - Oct.

I'd better sow them instead of staring at the packet

not too tender I think, I grew some from seed and they survived for 5 or more winters, and then we even got lovely fruit in 2006, when we had a good summer. they were killed off by the cold, but it did drop to -16deg for weeks on end in the winter of 2010/11, so I cannot complain too much as they got no cossetting at all...

[muddled]

Anyone know who stocks Passion Flower seeds?

VC said she got hers from pennard plants...just checked and they still have them....
Pennard Plants, Heritage Vegetable and flower Seeds, Edible plants and Agapanthus

[TrixC]

I'm also trying passion fruit from seed, although I haven't had great success with germination so far, only 1 seedling from six seeds. Strange, because when I was a kid in NZ we always grew them from seed and I remember it being easy. It may be the seed needs to be fresh, if I try again I'm going to try nicking the seed and soaking in warm water before sowing.

I'm not sure how it will go in this climate. Where I'm from in the north of NZ it grows into an enormous rampant vine but that was in a moist subtropical climate where everything grows like a weed.