Passionfruit - Page 3

 
Ah!  That must be where the advice to plant it on top of a cow's liver comes
from.  Have no dead animals ATM, so will try the liver trick.


Thanks for that - will keep an eye out for rogue growth.

 
we had one nelly kelly in sydney & it just went off! it was fabulous. (i
assume it still is).

here, i am trying to track down a banana passionfruit (per j. french's
advice - though i admit i'm starting to find her a little tiresome at
times). i'd prefer a n.k. i'm sure, but we don't have any microclimates yet
& it got to -6.5 rather often during winter at our place.

i have a friend with a n.k. growing on the house - it fruits late & out of
timetable order, and not very well, but her place is colder than ours so i
think she thinks it's great to be getting anything out of it at all. she has
no idea where it even came from (which makes me wonder, as they are grafted,
iirc..!)
kylie

 

I thought the NK passions were for colder climates than Sydney's????


Yes. Same here but I do have the odd spot where I can put one and since
thiese plants were very moderately priced, I thought I didn't have alot to
lose if it does cark it.  will try a banana one if this one dies as I love
passionfruit.

Yep.  At least the ones I've bought are and the one that died years ago was
grafted too.

 
i have no idea! we bought it in ignorance. :-)

then we put it on the western end of the house (so it roasted all summer) to
keep the kitchen cool in summer. it worked an absolute treat. this was when
i realised that anyone who buys air-conditioning instead of using plants &
so forth to solve heat problems for houses needs their head read :-)
kylie

 Re passion fruit, I never buy the grafted ones. The seed comes from the
passion fruits I buy at the shop. They always grow and flower and if put
in the blazing hot sun in Melbourne last quite some time. Fowl manure,
an old roof drain pipe from the shed facing north south seem the way to go.