Tags: Open Pollinated

Growing Practices: No Pesticides No Herbicides No Fungicides No Synthetic Fertilizers

Latin Name: Passiflora incarnata

Days to Maturity: 120

Description:

Enjoy stunning beauty and tasty tropical-like fruits!

Passionfruit vines, being hardy natives, are little touched by insects or disease of any kind, and are quite productive of fruits. The vines grow vigorously and will soon rapidly climb and create stunning ornamental cover for arbors, fences, decks, etc, making a wonderful natural screen and shade. One vine seems able to produce about 15-20 fruits per season, which is September-November. The vines and leaves are a potent natural relaxant and sleep aid and sold in the health food industry for that use. The flowers begin to come on around July-August and are just stunning. Plants vines about 3-4 feet apart as early in the season after all danger of frost. Very winter hardy once established. Come late autumn it dies back to the ground in zone 6 but in late spring will resprout from it’s roots and flower and fruit again, thus it is a PERENNIAL. In Zones 9-10 may become a permanent woody vine. Will flower and fruit usually the same year of planting if planted in spring. These seedlings come from superior fruiting vines of excellent quality, size and flavor and represent much better than average genetics. These are Passiflora incarnata. See photos.

NATURALLY GROWN Seed grown at Peaceful Heritage Nursery in zone 6 Kentucky.

RECOMMENDED FOR ORGANIC GROWING


Resistant to: Highly resistant to insects and disease in general. Watch out for Japanese beetles, which can sometimes eat the flowers.

Pollination: Self-Pollinating

Approximately 20 Seeds per packet

Will grow in zones 5b-10, maybe colder. Needs a long season to ripen the fruit. No shipping to CANADA, sorry!

Story of this Seed:

This Superior line we discovered from 2 patches in our local region that both were producing exceptionally large, egg-sized fruits of delicious uncommon flavor and just full of ripe pulp.  We developed our own superior line from these two original findings.

Blake has been foraging for these fruits since the early 2000s and most wild vines produce mediocre fruit. Not these! Ours have much better flavor, quality and production.

Growing Tips:

Plant in a sunny, warm location with full sun and good soil drainage. Needs a fence, arbor, or trellis to climb on for best results.