I'm in northern California. Thx for the information. We get tons of butterflies on our passionflower vine. I have to pick off caterpillars that can d3cimate the vine.
I don’t know if the may pop and a tropical passion fruit taste the same. But many years ago I was on a passion, fruit juice kick and I was drinking a small can a day in the summer because it’s very refreshing. A couple of weeks later I started feeling lightheaded and weak and I went to see my doctor. He noticed my pressure was very low and he asked me what I was doing lately. I told him about my drinking passion fruit juice every day and he told me to slow down because passionfruit lowers blood pressure. Years later, I shared my story with a co-worker because, although he was physically fit and exercised every day, he continued to have high blood pressure and he was on meds. He started drinking a can a day for 30 days, and the doctor took him off all his blood pressure medicines. I’m not a doctor, but I’ve seen the effects of drinking this delicious fruit pulp in juice form first hand. Hope it helps somebody out there.
Flammable in what state? Living, green tissue or dried brown tissue? Because, the live vine wasn't any quicker to ignite than other green vegetation from the garden. It was resistant to burning actually. I tested it.
I planted my passion fruit vine in the base of my oak tree and it took over the oak tree. When people see it they are amazed at how beautiful my oak tree is with all the beautiful flowers and fruits. I love my oak- passion fruit tree !
I have just bought the passion flower caerulea ,just read ,it's evasive .I have a giant oak tree maybe 150 to 200 yrs old ,but I am scared to plant it ,as it mybtake over everything 😊
I am glad I watch your video before I plant my passionflower incarnata into the ground. I just found this plant today, because I want to grow my own for tea, and if I get fruit that will be a bonus. I will repotted next spring time, but I Wil not put it on the ground.. Thank you for the info.
I just discovered this vine on my property in GA and one fell to the ground as soon as I touched the vine. So glad I found your video. I will have my hubby make a lattice wall for them to grow. I love eating off of my land.
I'm in phx az, i planted my passaflora incarnata in late April. Its grown approximately 3 ft up a trellis full green but only produced a single flower which was cause for a celebration and photo shoot. But that's it. It's late July with temps of 110* + but no more blooms. I'm hoping next spring brings an abundance. We'll see.
I'm in Ohio and last year I planted mine and it grew but no flowers or fruit. This year it grew and had dropped a shoot and now I have had several flowers several more buds and currently one fruit. So it's like it needed a session to acclimate itself. I have been very pleased.
Comprehensive!! So important to know how far the rhizomes will run, and how tough & deep they run! Also, it's important to know how to eat them. Wise;, about flammability of landscaping plants. One of the best-told plant videos I've seen. Thanks!!
I’m from Brazil and my dad always has passion flower vines. The fruit makes fantastic juices and desserts, and has a natural calming effect. It is so beautiful, I never knew I could grow it in my zone here in the US. I just bought one, will try to grow it in my deck.
Awesome to know! I was looking to add that to my garden, but now I won't. I wanted the flowers more than anything, but I can't deal with anything that aggressive. I'm already being overrun by invasive bamboo, privet, honeysuckle, creeping charlie, english ivy, and wisteria. While I love planting native plants in the yard, I really can't have something else that requires so much work to contain! Unless, maybe, it would climb up the bamboo and swamp it! I wonder if it would?
Unfortunately I can't recommend blackberries or raspberries, they're almost as aggressive as passion plants. My only hope is that the wild dewberries in my yard help me fight off the scourge of wisteria and honeysuckle I'm suffering at the moment
I have giant passionfruit, banana passionfruit, and a few other more tropical varieties. Giant passionfruit is my favorite. It’s hearty, healthy, productive, and the fruit produce a melon like flesh in addition to the passionfruit seeds and pulp.
I have a small plant that grows with my snowball bush. I was hoping to find out how to move part of it to another part of my yard.. the leaves and the flowers are used to make tea that is quite expensive to purchase and I love tea. It is also used as a medicine for sleep, blood pressure, anxiety and female hormone issues. I would be a horrible neighbor if I lived near you. I would be cutting bits off often to make into tea lol
Thank you so much for this information. My husband just planted one outback. He needs to know we can’t let it overtake but they are beautiful. And yes I would love the flowers in the fruit. Thanks for the video you got some beautiful flowers. I hope ours is dark purple.💜💜💜💜
I wish I had known that 10 years ago when I planted mine. It comes up everywhere except where I originally planted it (to grow on a lattice on my front porch). But so far it really hasn't caused a problem, as the new shoots are spaced far enough apart so as not to completely take over an area. I just keep pulling up those that I don't want.
I have a wild vine growing on my land here near Oklahoma City. I first noticed it 3 years ago. It isn't growing anywhere near as invasively as yours. Although there is something eating it, a lot of the leaves have holes.
Those most likely are Gulf fritillary . The plant is host plant to them. Could also be zebra longwing, Julia heliconian (sometimes called a Julia longwing) and variegated fritillary.
Thank you for making this video! I bought a plant two years ago but it died due to being unprotected and being exposed to that crazy cold snap of February 2023 (down to -12 F). I didn't replace it because I didn't think I would be able to get fruit off of it but this inspired me to give it another try
Thanks for watching! I hope you can get it to work for you this time!! Buying 2 plants might help with pollination. I know that carpenter bees work super well as distributing pollen, so hopefully you have some of them in your area.
I didn't plant mine, they just showed up out of the blue in my yard and on my fence line. I ha e fruits but have bot been able to get any that are sweet. When is the best time to harvest them? I love that o have the big bumble bees pollinating g and now they have spread over into my neighbors yard and luckily he doesn't care. It definitely thrives and flourishes like crazy. I know very little about this vine but love it's beauty and can't wait to try a sweet treat someday.
That sounds great! For the type that I have, I just allow the fruits to naturally drop from the vine. Or sometimes they may stay attached by tendrils, but I'll pull them off once they turn yellow-green. It takes patience, but by doing it that way, they are always sweet for me! 😁
Im salivating watching you each that because I've had a tree before, different variety. One of the best tasting fruit. Easily beat overrated strawberry. Because personally, i love sweet zesty fruits
Wow! That sure is a grower. The flowers are really beautiful. I have smelled them before although, I have never tasted them. The flowers have such a wonderful sweet smell. Reminds me a bit of the night blooming cereus we once had. Just like them, I remember the smell of the passion fruit flowers filling the air. I also read your book. I know your target is a younger audience but I also learned some things from it when I read it. The illustrations are great. Wish my kids were younger cause I think they'd really like it. Thanx for sharing the video.
Thanks for watching & buying my book!! Yeah my dad was interested in growing this vine but I made a point to warn him about how far it can spread. You need to plan wisely!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. 😃 Yeah, they do taste really good. I have a brother who's not very fond of fruit, but he sure loves passion fruits!!
My neighbor has a bunch of staghorn sumacs growing right next to the fence on the other side in his yard. I get the same problem with suckers.. I might try that technique you used to stop your passionfruit roots. Do you think it would work for me?
Thanks for watching! Yes, this should be a very effective way to stop them from spreading. I used heavy duty 20 mil plastic. Make sure you tape any seams. I would go 24 inches deep. After placing the barrier, you might find suckers coming up on your side. They would be from remnant pieces of root that remained in your soil. Dig them up if convenient. But at least, you should keep ripping out the suckers. Over time, the root fragments should get starved out and they will die.
Wonderful video!! Very informative and useful!! I definitely want to start a passion fruit vinegar next spring!! I've always loved the flowers, which is the main reason I initially wanted to start growing them, but now I'm very interested in trying the fruits!!
I don't notice a colour change on my fruit when they're ripe, only that they start smelling nice, and I just wait for them to drop off the vine on their own before eating them. I tried growing them in-ground in suburban Toronto (Zone 6a) and they overwintered but they took until late June to emerge due to the cooler spring/summer weather we get, which didn't give them enough time to grow fruit. So I'm currently growing them in big containers so that I can bring them into the house in April/May and wake them up with 70F room temperature warmth. That also helps limit the invasiveness, and I still get a respectable amount of fruit (about 40 per plant). I see you've put up rhizome barriers on your property, but what about your neighbour? Is his yard being over-run? :P
Those are quite some roots. I heard they like to send runners out but that's intimidating. I live in a state that doesn't normally have them but I tried planting a few in spring to see if they can make it. I ordered the incarnata variety. I'm going to need to rethink the trellis I put up, some sites say it will only get 8ft😂
Yeah, there's a broad range of info. Some planting locations may impact growth differently. It also makes me wonder if there are some differences in genetics? I know that it gets rather hot along that fence, but I never fertilize or water that vine. And it still goes crazy for me! 😲
Have you considered growing it in a pot? If it is not native to your area, that may be a better bet so you can keep it under control. They can be very aggressive.
Warning: Not all varieties produce tasty fruit; check the taste before committing to growing these plants, unless you only want to admire the lovely flowers. I thought they were a nice novelty when I first discoverd them in my pasture (with their "dinosaur footprint" leaves), but they have taken over a goodly amount of land in just a couple years, and now I must work at removing them.
Hello. Just found this video on PF vines. A bird giffed me seeds, I didn’t know what they were until this year, when I saw flowers ! They have grown like crazy. I don’t have them on a fence/trellis. The little shoots keep popping up, I’m not sure what to do about them, they’re in my front flower bed. I’m in N Central TX. Can they be transplanted and should I fertilize??? I haven’t seen any fruit, but several flowers and more coming on !!!
appreciate the info. I'll be pulling mine up. It's trying to take over my honeysuckle, clematis, forsythia, really everything close by. It's like Seymour. I loved the leaves and blossoms (1st year bloom) but its first will be its last.
Yikes! Had no idea it is so invasive. Hmm. I planted it two yesterday in a pollinating garden for a friend. In a front yard up a trellis idea. Hope it doesn't create issues with the roots so close to the house. On another note, it sounds like a great plant for a guerrilla gardener put one if every downtown to grow on vacant lots and buildings. Awesome insight. TY
I planted a small vine I bought at a plant sale, it's growing long up and across my chain link fence, flowers 1 flower a day which dies next day and another one flowers, but no fruit! And how does it envelop a whole fence? Mine is one long long strand.. Ok, should have watched the whole video before questioning.. if it touches back down, will root like a Bermuda grass weed!
Its a Tennessee wildflower (i live in Tn) however I ordered my seeds off amazon 5 years ago I have anout 8 all over my property The amount of people that have stopped and asked me what this plant is & if the can have a piece (the pop up all throughout the yard) ive shared at least 30 plants with people ❤
I'm not sure the variety I have but I'm in zone 7B in NJ growing two passion fruit vines in containers on my balcony. Do I need to cut back the vine in winter if the plants aren't in the ground or let them die back on their own? I was going to try bringing them in during winter and prune back to the main vine and see what happens.
I had to let my neighbors know that if they see me picking or pulling things it's the passion flower roots that def travel far! ESP if they don't have enough sun they will go further to seek it
There's passionflower growing wild where I recently moved to. If I post a short of them tomorrow could someone help me identify the variety it is? Thanks!
I tried one here in eastern PA and it died on me but I would like to try again also in zone 6. Where did you get yours and I often see it advertised as only growing 5 foot max.
I've never tried passionfruit before. As soon as I find some market that has them, I'll buy a few and try them. If I like them, the next step is recipes! Thanks Albo!
Hey I was wondering if your vines have started budding out yet. I bought 2 plants recently and they kind of look dead with no buds. Not sure if they are done for or if these vines just take a while to bud out.
Are they still in pots or did you already plant them in the ground? It partially depends on what zone you live in and even what microclimate you may have surrounding the plants. Mine are now sending shoots up out of the ground. I'm in Zone 6b and the spot where they grow gets very warm from the full sun exposure next to the black pavement. You might just need to give it a little more time. Hopefully they are healthy and grow well!
@@Albopepper I planted them last week. I am in zone 6b as well and they are planted in full sun. I ordered the plants online from a reputable nursery but they looked unhealthy on arrival. I will wait another week and if I don't see any life, I will just ask for a refund. One problem could be that I planted before heavy rains that may have oversoaked the plants. Not sure but I have never had any issues with other plants or trees close by. Thanks
oh dear. I'm in Louisiana and I had one pop up in my main garden this year, scrambling up my dent corn. it smelled heavenly, so I just transplanted a bit of it to my new raised bed where my asparagus and strawberries are. What have I done?!?! It may crowd out the asparagus and strawberries.
No worries! If you've only just planted it this year, it shouldn't be too hard to either move or even eliminate it before it gets well established. Hopefully you can find a more fitting spot for it, since it's such a lovely plant!
@@Albopepper I only transplanted it about 10 days ago. It's still wilty-looking from transplant. I've had the idea to lift it, put it in a large pot, and put a board across the corner of the raised bed, setting the pot atop the board, so I can watch to make sure the roots don't escape into the soil below. Thanks! I'm so glad I found your video, or I would have had grief from this plant. I may still, because it's popping up all over my main garden. I'm hoping my chickens and geese will control it.
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Thanks! I'm not sure how dry the soil can get before the plant really starts to suffer. I don't ever water my plant. Here in western PA we get a decent amount of rain. But we get dry spells too and the plant has survived fine without ever wilting.
lol you enlightened me twice in a single day. first for growlights which someone recommended you from reddit. Second i was wondering about a beautiful garden i saw today, what was those yellow fruits next to passiflora flowers with bees.
Wow! That sure is a grower. The flowers are really beautiful. I have smelled them before. They're really a wonderful smell. Reminds me a bit of the night blooming cereus we once had. Just like them I remember the smell of the passion fruit flowers filling the air. Thanx for sharing this video.
You don't have to protect it during the Winter Time? I just received a Plant today ( the Passiflora Incarnata) and hope i can get it to grow as nice as yours, I am in the New Grow 9. Thanks for a nice video.
I think I know why some people said on the internet that this vine is very flammable.... because it is. But that's all vines when they die/go dormant. As I assume you know, the southeast US is very prone to wildfire. So much so that pretty much every tree/shrub/perennial native plant that lives in our area is fire resistant! Now how can a plant be super flammable but also fire resistant? Well it depends on the type of resistance. So for example one of our Native pine tree's in the south is the Shortleaf Pine. Once the seedling pines have about 1 year of growth on them. They're super fire hardy and will leaf back out even if all their needles get burnt up. And the mature trees? You need months of no rainfall at all and then a MASSIVE burn for it to kill them. So no matter how much fire that thing wont die back to the ground. Now in the case of your Maypop it will definitely burn up like a tinderbox come late july/early august here in the southeast. Those tend to be our driest/hottest time of the year and also when the wildfire risk is the most high! This plant has evolved over millions of years to adapt to the fire by IMMEDIATELY sending all its energy down to the roots once seeds set for the year. You might not get the same effect in PA since you have a much cooler climate than up there. But its a mixture of setting seeds + the consistent 95 degree days in august that make that thing start to build up that winter root structure. That also has the added benefit of ensuring that even if a big fire comes rolling in and burns the vine to the ground it will come right back up next March (another difference in our much warmer our climate is LOL) also the reason why yours wasn't lighting up quickly was because by the time the plant is really fire prone down here it looks like its halfway into dormancy and its starting to get crispy leaves in places You'll notice this behavioral pattern in most native perennials to the southeast. They LOVE to take over an area and colonize it because for millions of years it was getting burnt to the ground very regularly so it was a necessary adaptation to allow the plant to continue to proliferate even in the face of consistent adversity. They take over an entire place because they don't know how long they're still gonna have leaves on them LOL.
It’s my state flower and I can’t seem to get a plant to last! Where I do find it wild though it takes over, mostly in open fields. Seems to like climbing up higher less where I am.
I’m glad I watched this. I planted 2 and butterflies laid so many eggs they ate both plants. I bought 8 more plants and the caterpillars ate them as well. I have 1 plant left with leaves and they’re eating them now. I bought 4 more and put them in a butterfly enclosure so they can grow without being eaten. Hopefully they will keep growing since I’m in zone 9b. After watching this I will plant them in 2 containers with a arch connecting the 2. This is a great video.
I just ordered a start. I’m a little worried about its invasive tendencies. I want to use it to cover. Fence in a small garden area near my hot tub to create a private outdoor shower. Do you think I could accomplish that planting it in a long pot?
It never ceases to amaze me how such a beautiful and exotic flower is native to my area. There's an incredible wealth of under appreciated native plants that i find far more appealing than non-native cultivars. You noted how aggressive the vine is even in its native environments. It sounds like it behaves like native brambles. I have been growing wild blackberries and dewberries in my garden for about two years. They are native to this area and they're extremely common. But as I'm sure some of you already know, if you give any member of the rubus genus an inch, it will take a mile. As delicious as they are, i still need to be able to physically get to the berries without my skin being absolutely shredded to bits
Thanks for watching! If the plant is rooted in the ground, the roots can survive freezing temperatures. I'm in zone 6 and my plants keeps coming back. You could apply a layer of mulch for insulation.
I planted this in Idaho and it is doing great. My only problem is getting fruit. So far I have gotten very few and they have all be hollow. Anyone have an idea why?
Thanks for watching! It sounds like it might be poor pollination. I try to do everything I can to naturally attract & support pollinators, including bumble bees & carpenter bees. If you want to boost fruit set, you could try manually pollinating with a cotton swab to see if that helps.
@@Albopepper Thanks. We have a lot of pollinators, mostly honey bees, but I have noticed they don't seem that attracted to the flowers. I have noticed more bumble bees this year so maybe that will help. I will also try hand pollinating to see if that will help.
They can survive almost everywhere the new green growth will die back during a hard freeze in a lot of places it can actually be invasive, I live in central California and less than a mile from me there's a whole barn and a entire fence line and a few tree that are covered in over 20 foot high growth and hundreds of yards
