Growing Passionfruit

Moin Moin

After a looooong wait I finally got my two new Passionfruit-plants.
They are Swiss-made and have the lovely name "Eia-Popeia", but I guess they are hybrids based on "passiflora incarnata"

We plan on planting them side by side on the left side of that metal structure in the center of our garden (the beans growing there last year are gone now).

You are looking directly west in that picture so the passionfruit plants should be facing directly south and will have enough support to start climbing.

Do you have any tipps or ideas how to prepare the soil for passionfruit? Anything I have to consider?

Greetings

Black Dog

 

Not seen this one before.
Most passion fruits are not particularly fussy about soil types as long as not too heavy or water logged at any time of the year.

Too much fertiliser may hinder flowering.
My one experience of growing incarnata turned out to be pretty short.
I seem to remember, off the top of my head, that it is herbaceous in cold climates.
Mine disappeared after the first summer and never reappeared.
I hope you have better luck than me.

 

Well this is what it SHOULD look like (it's a store picture so take it with a grain of salt)


We sure hope it doesn't drown. We will probably keep the plants inside for a few weeks longer to give them a healthy head start and shelter them from any late frosts. But in theory they should be frost tolerant down to -15 or even -20°C.

Does anyone have an idea how to build a drainage for passiflora or any other moisture sensitive plants?

 

Is it particularly wet where you intend planting?
If just heavy soil you can add grit to make it less sticky.