Passion flower for the Greenhouse

Hi All

I always try to grow somthing new or/and havn't grown for years.

Passion Flower , I know Simbad had a realy good one but I cant find her post and what it is called and yes I will PM her but in the meantime any good sugestions I realy want to either grow in the greenhouse or maybe outside for the summer and bring in and try my best to keep over the winter.
I cant stand washed out colours so if its blue proper deep blue same with the reds and if its white a clean white , I did grow Miss Bateman the suposedley white Clematis its orrid .
As usual all replies greatly recived , and good tips as well, I know its easy from cuttings as well

Spruce

 

There are a few good ones I've grown.
My favourite is a species, Alata, but fairly tender and not really one to move around.
I've grown "belloti"not sure of the spelling, its a cross between alata and cerulea I believe.
Both those are scented, "belloti", probably the most abundant flowerer of the two and slightly hardier, but no frost.

I find the best one for pot growing up to now is "anastasia", almost hardy and a good red.
I've also got a plant of "victoria" and "purple haze", another scented one, but not very forth coming flower wise with me at the moment.

Anastasia


Belloti, (not a good picture, it looks better in real life)



Alata

 

Lovely Pete - what I would really like to grow is a huge greenhouse.

 

Wouldn't we all.

 

Hi Pete

Very nice ... Anastasia looks realy nice
Alanta looks reay good but the tender part puts me off

Spruce

 

Can you eat the fruits from these?

 

Not sure Ziggy, anastasia forms pods but no seed, I've never had pods on alata, but I think it might be edible if you do get pollination.

But most of the hybrids I think are sterile, I could be very wrong here, but to flower well if pot grown you dont really want any seed forming.

 

Are they easy to root? like the bog-standard Caerulea is?

 

Glass of water on the window sill has never failed me, about 6 inches long a couple of leaves on the top .

I tried several times in compost, bags all sorts went round to my friend " Maggie" on her window sill growing in a jamjar of green water was a wonderful cutting fully rooted of passion flower !!!!

Spruce

 

The ones I've grown have always rooted fairly easily.
I usually would take cuttings anytime in summer from semi ripe growth.
The root well into September.

 

Cheers good people. I asked because I quite fancy growing another Star fruit. Not that its got anything to do with Passion fruit edibility, so i'll just stop waffling now.

 

If you're growing it in the greenhouse you will be able to expand your range of choice.
Are you looking for edible fruits? If so P.antioquensis is said to be one of the best ones.

This is a great site (in Italian) for inspiration and info...............

http://www.passiflora.it/temperatureminime.htm

And here are a couple of his photos from Flickr that may float your boat...........
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49012833@N07/4746639578/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49012833@N07/4746000169/in/photostream/

...............and the whole album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49012833@N07/sets/72157623795505994/

 

If you are looking for edible fruits , last year I bough some passion fruits in my local market and I`ve decieded to experiment few seeds , It was in June , I`ve planted 3 seeds in different soil with other plants , then I totally forgot about them and left them in my greenhouse , last months as I was away, the greenhouse must have gone down to -3/4 , funny story the seedling are still alive and healthy ......My point.
I`ve tryed before with carabbians fruits but they die down at 6 ......strange this time I`ve tryed with Asian (from Pakistan) and they survived , same story with the Pinapple ,
what I`m now thinking is that the fruit coming from south asia is more resistant then carabbian/south american.
try to get some passion fruit from your local asian shop.

 

I'm wow'd by these I have 3 very boring bog standard caerulas in the greenhouse. I am now thinking about replacing them with some more fancy varieties. Can I just grow them from seed ? (Plenty on eBay), or would I be better off with plants from cuttings?

What varieties should I grow? What are your top 3 favourites?

 

Pete, I have kept three of the P Anastasias which are about 18" but due for a repot, hopefully they will flower this year but did you say they tend to sprawl rather than climb?
I am now the owner of a Caerulea along our low boundary fence, not sure whether to keep it.