My passion flower!

Hooray, out of all the seeds I planted in all the different pots around my house, a single passionflower has sprouted on/ near my boyfriend's birthday! :luv: I hope a few more grow or this one does really well, because if it goes I'll be upset. The one that's woken up is at the very edge of the pot but I can't replant it yet because it would probably die; its root system won't be developed enough to withstand it.

It's still in it's curled round stage and it's a pale green colour. It wasn't getting much sun so I've moved it a bit nearer the light, hopefully not so bright that it'll fry.

I'll have to let nature take its course for now, but does anyone have any tips on how to look after baby passionflowers?

 

Hi Jw,

I'm certainly not an expert but i noticed you'd not got a reply to your question, so thought I'd answer ! Passionflower's are my favourite flower and I used to grow them from seed when I lived 'down south', sadly they don't do well here in Cumbria so I haven't done it for some time !

From memory it sounds like you're doing just the right thing, mine were grown on a warm sunny windowsill and then transferred to bigger pots when big enough and gradually moved up as they grow, which they should do quite fast as the weather gets better. Once big enough they can go outside, but this needs to be done carefully and gradually and depends where you are !

Hope that helps !

 

Hi there.
I'm certainly NOT an expert either, but as with the case with a lot of seedlings, I would suggest that you give it plenty of light, but not direct sunlight. Once established, then the sunlight will not be a problem.
Hope this helps.
Cheers...freddy.

 

For the record, I can definitely germinate passion flowers! More and more are sprouting, one from another pot. If anyone wants any tips:

1) The passion flowers that have germinated so far were covered by something (either soil, or tissue paper) but only lightly. Anywhere remotely deep and they have trouble reaching the top before dieing (I rescued some deeper-planted ones).

2) The passion flowers that germinated were not in direct sunlight, nor total darkness. They were on the floor in my bathroom, and on my desk.

3) All the passion flowers that sprouted were covered with a clingfilm lid.

4) The passion flowers that sprouted were kept pretty wet, but not like a bog (some of the bog-like passion flower seeds got mouldy). Maybe slightly wetter than my normal seed pots. They will germinate in wet tissue, as well as damp soil.

5) My passion flowers so far have taken betwen 20 odd and 40 odd days to germinate.

6) I did not sandpaper the seeds before planting them. I did however stick them in some warm water for a few hours before planting (don't know if that helped or not).

 

There's no helping you now, jw universe. You'll be tucking them into bed and reading them fairy stories soon. :hehe:

 

More likely they'll be growing on my head and into my bed; my bed is next to my desk, and underneath my windowsill, both of which have a load of different plants on them :hehe: I can see their leaves coming towards me when I look up. In a few months, passion flower won't be far behind.

I miss the rainforests where I was surrounded by plants :(

 

Hi jw .. I've just answered a post saying Passion Flowers (well, one in particular) are my worse nightmare that I wish I had never planted ... brought here from the UK.

May I ask 1) where do you live now? .... and 2) where have you come from? ... your answe may assist folk in helping you with your questions.

Enjoy the forum.

 

My passion flower is probably passiflora edulis (I planted the seeds of a supermarket's passion fruit). I read your post... I wonder if edulis will grow as strongly as caerulea? Passion flower is one of my favourite plants, so we'll have to see what happens. If it does take over, then I have been warned! :D

I live in the UK near Leeds. I've always come from the UK but I went on a conservation trip to the rainforest and now want to be surrounded by plants more than ever. So far I've been growing my passionflowers in a pot inside.

 

Well, there I was worried that they were "difficult to germinate" and now they are popping up all over the place! I'd stuck some of the seeds in odd places around the house like in with my other plants so that I didn't forget to keep them damp, and now the warmer days have come they are all sprouting; I actually have more than I know what to do with! :hehe: