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    Greetings everyone's....

    just your friendly muslim pirate....

    One of my all time favourite climbers the passion flower, The first time i saw the flower i couldn't believe how unique and beautiful they could be.. so 2 seasons a go i got given a small cutting and i grew it on in a container the same season it grew so high and wrapped it self around the pear tree and the flowers were so striking ( alien) i did some reading on it and was completely fascinated by them, and how Christian missionaries in south America first saw them and it reminded them of Jesus and the last supper etc....

    I had so many pics on my laptop and it crashed taking away all the pics, i hand pollinated the bottom part of the passion flower vine ( it got really tall) and got some green fruit growing( edible) they are supposed to ripen to orange but the weather was terrible at the time.




    so i cut it back in September and made a newbie mistake by leaving the pot outside over winter i forgot it was a tropical plant and the roots need warmth over the winter months espically if you are growing in the British climate.

    last season i saw a pack of the passion flower seeds in a seed store, so i bought a pack and today i started them off in a seed tray using potting soil, they need to be kept at temperatures of 20c for 8 weeks for them to germinate, so it will be interesting if i can grow it well.

    i germinated around 10 seeds


    " passiflora caerulea"








    after only 8 days into germination..
    Last edited by muslimgrower; 17-02-2009, 04:00 PM.

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    used an old spoon to scoop the tiny seedlings from the shallow tray and pot onto 3 inch containers..





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    • #3
      7 out of around 10 seeds germinated





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      • #4
        this is the latest pic of the passion flower seedling, gave it a very weak solution of miracle grow...

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        • #5
          ill be keeping 2 of them, probably give the rest away........ grow one in the ground and one in a container... just to see how well they will fair...

          they will only flower in the second season from what i have read though..
          Last edited by muslimgrower; 17-02-2009, 04:07 PM.

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          • #6
            Gosh- you've done well!
            Is that the white one you're growing??

            I have a purple one out here which fruits every year- but I'm not sure which variety you can eat???- do you know?
            "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

            Location....Normandy France

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            • #7
              hi and thank you

              i am growing the " passiflora caerulea" supposed to be the most hardiest for growing in uk..

              too be honest with you i don't know what variety can or cannot be eaten.. i just love this vine and the beautiful alien like flowers.. it can be very intrusive and will really grow well ..
              Last edited by muslimgrower; 17-02-2009, 04:20 PM.

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              • #8
                You can see mine on my Avatar!!!...heading off to the barn at a fast rate of knots!!!! ( it got a severe hair cut last week, but had already started opening up new leaves.)
                Last edited by Nicos; 17-02-2009, 04:28 PM.
                "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                Location....Normandy France

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                • #9
                  They are lovely and given me inspiration for the arch Mr H got me for Christmas
                  WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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                  • #10
                    It's passiflora edule for eating Nicos. All the passifloras are fabulous in flower. Well done Friendly Pirate!
                    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                    • #11
                      Friendly Pirate, just want to say I love the pics you post. As a novice it is so helpful to see what I need to do rather than read about it. Cheers
                      WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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                      • #12
                        wow these are beautiful! I am going to buy these for my new garden!

                        Great pics and I agree with Fiona H - Its great to see photos and not just to read about it!

                        Well done!!! Victoria x
                        Serene she stand amid the flowers,
                        And only count lifes sunny hours,
                        For her dull days do not exist,
                        Evermore the optimist

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                        • #13
                          Hi great pics, wish I could take photos like that!! I've got a passionflower in my garden which was there when we moved in. It has flowers in different shades of purple. Last year it had fruit on it but I was too scared to eat it in case it wasn't an edible one! How do I know if I've got passiflore edule (without poisoning myself!!)?
                          AKA Angie

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                          • #14
                            ^ well you still have plenty of time before you get the fruit, so when the flowers blooms , take a pic and inshallah someone will probably identify it for you...

                            digital cameras have come down in price so much these days, just point and shoot easy as that
                            Last edited by muslimgrower; 17-02-2009, 06:32 PM.

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                            • #15
                              selfraising
                              Have you ever taken any cuttings from you passiflora? and if so did you take the cuttings when the vine was in vegetative growth ? An elderly neighbour gave me a root of the vine and i grew it and it flowered in the fist season, but when you grow from seed they only flower the season after, from what i have been reading...

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